The biggest offence of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s relentless satire Digger is squandering what might have been a great performance from Tom Cruise.

What one last flick through the bargain bin at Championship Vinyl reveals

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Billy Van’s 1919 comedy Van-ar-chy found by student in Sendai will be shown in early November in New Hampshire

Julia Jacklin and her band bring joy, laughter, and a string of surprise cover songs when they take over the Collingwood pub, The Gem, on Saturday.

Julia Jacklin and her band bring joy, laughter, and a string of surprise cover songs when they take over the Collingwood pub, The Gem, on Saturday.

A British farm used more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes to create a portrait to celebrate the 100th birthday of Britain's most famous naturalist.

Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage. “Pollution does not recognise political borders,” said the Zalul Environmental Association, an Israeli NGO dedicated to protecting the country’s seas and shores. “The discharge of untreated sewage from the Gaza Strip into the sea is contributing to the worsening crisis affecting the Israeli desalination facilities. The wastewater contains nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which feed microalgae and cyanobacteria and may intensify their blooms.” Continue reading...

Podcast Episode · 7am · 23 September · 16min

There’s something about a good Halloween movie that doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent the genre. Sometimes all I want is witches, creepy houses, kids running for their lives, a little blood, and en...

Promoting her first album in a decade, 'Flying With Angels,' Suzanne Vega shares stories from across her storied career.

On this weeks show Chris reflects upon the passing of Dr Tim Read, his several interviews on this show over the years, his humour, unflinching support for active transport across Melbourne and the out...

Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.

Apple’s vision of constant recording that still ‘protects your privacy’ may help usher in a world where ambient surveillance is the norm.

I now know that the only difference between life and death may have been an AI algorithm, says Mahmoud Mushtaha, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza

"The Ed Sheeran debacle will be seen as a turning point in pop culture complicity" with Israel, said one Palestinian-American writer, who described it as "a clear 'South Africa moment.'”

Koberidze creates a conversation with all of the shifting moments of reality that exist for the individual and then become irrevocably “something else” when they form symbolic vestiges.

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives

From Neutral Milk Hotel to Justin Timberlake

As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel

It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings

Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero req...

With an all-women music festival and her joyous live shows, former Disney child star Olivia Rodrigo revives 1990s feminism for a very different political moment.

Belle and Sebastian perform their classic 1996 album, 'If You’re Feeling Sinister,' and a bunch of fan favourites for devoted fans in Melbourne – the home of one of their favourite-ever shows.

A few brief thoughts on Mike Leigh’s new film, plus ‘I Play Rocky’ and big turns from Sarah Paulson and Cynthia Erivo