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Summer Stage at Bunjil Place

The Summer Stage festival returns to Bunjil Place, Narre Warren this summer with an exciting range of live music, entertainment,…

The three members of Irish rap group Kneecap lie shirtless on the floor, surrounded by empty baggies, scattered pills and an empty bottle of Buckfast, suggesting the aftermath of a wild, drug-fuelled night. Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap movie is a semi-fictionalised biopic about the band.
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Kneecap film review: top showcase of the hip hop trio’s talents

Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature is a bawdy, rambunctious and semi-fictionalised biopic of Belfast rappers Kneecap.

Inside Out 2. Image: Disney. Anxiety greets core emotions, Joy, Anger, Fear, Disgust and Sadness in headquarters.
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Film review: Inside Out 2

With fast pacing, great visuals and enough emotional depth, 'Inside Out 2' delivers on more than one front.

Intimate photography is on the rise. Image is a naked woman shot from behind and from the middle of her back down, sitting on the floor with her arms held out to her side and bathed in a warm sunny glow.
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Intimate photography: the new therapy?

Photographers are enjoying a rise in nude, boudoir and intimate photography. But the results are surprising everyone.

A screen displays the words The Lion King, in fornt of the screen is an orchestra
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Performance review: The Lion King in Concert, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra empowered a Disney classic with the majesty and power it deserves.

Napoleon. Image is an 18th century French general with three-cornered hat and blue tunic with tiny figures in the background and a desert setting.
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Film review: Napoleon

Ridley Scott’s interest in ‘great men’ and strong female characters is once again on display, but even at 158 minutes,…

Nakahira. image is black and white shot of two young people embracing on a yacht which is moored.
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Film reviews: Flora on the Sand (1964) and Juvenile Jungle (1956), Japanese Film Festival

The feature of a retrospective at the 2023 Japanese Film Festival, Kō Nakahira was a filmmaker who interrogated themes of…

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Irish Film Festival Australia launches 2023 program

Doing justice to the cinematic output of a entire nation is ‘very challenging,’ says Irish Film Festival Australia Festival Director…

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The rise of South Australian film festivals

Emerging and diverse filmmakers in SA have more opportunities to show their work with the rise in local film festivals.

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Carmen producer Rosemary Blight on Millepied’s bold reimagining of Bizet’s opera

Australian screen producer Rosemary Blight reveals that Paul Mescal didn't know how to dance, box or play guitar before filming…

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