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‘A genius is a sponge’: inside the new Picasso exhibition that isn’t all about Picasso
The Picasso Century at Australia’s NGV sees the artist share the spotlight with 50 of his contemporaries, and explains how one man could ‘catch and translate all the values of a time’
Elizabeth Flux
10, Jun, 2022 @8:00 PM
Sharon Stone! Leonardo DiCaprio! Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead deserves your time
This 1995 western has been widely overlooked but it is good camp fun, starring Stone as a mysterious woman who enters a gunslinger contest in an outlaw town
Elizabeth Flux
24, May, 2022 @5:30 PM
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: addictive whodunnits solved by a delightfully difficult detective
Like a sexy Miss Marple, the Australian series has a deft touch and a title character who would still count as a challenging woman today
Elizabeth Flux
12, Aug, 2021 @5:30 PM
The French Impressionists rediscovered: ‘They didn’t know their works would be masterpieces’
With paintings from Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and others, National Gallery of Victoria’s new exhibition encourages audiences to look behind the blockbuster
Elizabeth Flux
25, Jun, 2021 @8:00 PM
The Mummy: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz’s adventurous romp catches lightning in an urn
Tightly written and perfectly cast, this goofy late-90s horror-comedy about an Egyptian curse is the perfect comfort watch
Elizabeth Flux
20, Jun, 2021 @5:30 PM
We should be used to arts events being cancelled by now, but in Melbourne it still stings
The Rivers Sing is one of the few remnants of Rising festival to survive the city’s fourth lockdown. It’s bittersweet to experience it through a screen
Elizabeth Flux
04, Jun, 2021 @8:00 PM
She-Oak and Sunlight: women of Australian Impressionism emerge from the shadows
By drawing out lesser-known works by women who painted alongside now-famous men, NGV’s new exhibition tells a fuller story
Elizabeth Flux
05, Apr, 2021 @5:30 PM
Scream: darkly funny, extremely meta horror and a 90s time capsule that never gets old
Whether you caught the slasher series the first time around or only got the pop culture supercut, the original Scream films are still worth a watch
Elizabeth Flux
15, Feb, 2021 @4:30 PM
Teenage Bounty Hunters: a refreshing, clever and funny show that subverts expectations
Part teen drama, part comedy and part coming-of-age story, the snappy and meticulously planned series has a lot more going on than first appears
Elizabeth Flux
03, Jan, 2021 @4:30 PM
Paul Jennings on the 'painful' process of writing about his life: 'It's been quite confronting'
In his thoughtful and unusual memoir, the beloved creator of Round the Twist and Unreal doesn’t shy away from the weird – or the personal
Elizabeth Flux
12, Oct, 2020 @1:44 AM
The Cabin in the Woods: hilarious blood-spattered escapism, Joss Whedon style
This 2011 horror comes with genre tropes galore but the joy lies in its tongue-in-cheek unpredictability
Elizabeth Flux
10, Sep, 2020 @12:43 AM
Jasper Fforde on rabbits, racism and writing fiction 'to slightly improve a flawed world'
Author grapples with big issues in The Constant Rabbit, a bonkers story with a dark undercurrent – and plenty of Rickrolling
Elizabeth Flux
17, Jul, 2020 @8:00 PM
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