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Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) in a scene from Better Call Saul.
Pop culture

‘I make people nervous’: The veteran villain who hides in plain sight

Giancarlo Esposito, best known for playing Gus Fring on Breaking Bad, loves being the bad guy.

  • by Robert Moran
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Cinema

Is Megalopolis even worth watching? We asked Francis Ford Coppola

The epic cost the venerated director 40 years, a personal fortune and a critical backlash.

  • by Karl Quinn
Roz (Lupita N’yongo), and Brightbill (Kit Connor)
Review

The director of How to Train Your Dragon is back with another excellent animation

  • by Sandra Hall
Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, a TV exercise show presenter deemed past it by her station boss (Dennis Quaid), in The Substance.
★★★½
Review

Demi Moore’s audacious body horror dives beneath the surface

  • by Jake Wilson
Planning a Joan of Arc movie … Baz Luhrmann with Catherine Martin at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia last November.
Australian film

Baz Luhrmann to shoot an epic Joan of Arc film

  • by Garry Maddox
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Nicholas Chavez, Chloe Sevigny, Javier Bardem and Cooper Koch as the Menendez family in Monsters.
Streaming

How young women on TikTok prompted a rethink on the ‘murderous’ Menendez brothers

A new Netflix show takes a different perspective on two US brothers, who were sentenced to life for murdering their parents in 1989.

  • by Karl Quinn
Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, photographed at a US soccer match in March.
Streaming

On the cusp of mainstream stardom, MrBeast is being sued

His move to Amazon’s streaming platform Prime Video was meant to be the biggest coup yet for the YouTube sensation, but it may prove his undoing.

  • by Karl Quinn
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Agatha All Along.
Review

TV’s coolest witch since Samantha casts a bewitching spell

  • by Michael Idato
Aaron Chen and Shaun Micallef in Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey.
Review

In Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey, comics go back where they came from

  • by Ben Pobjie
Colin Farrell in The Penguin.
Streaming

Colin Farrell’s Penguin ditches Batman, and is all the better for it

  • by Craig Mathieson

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The Australian Ballet’s new production, Oscar, in dress rehearsal.
Melbourne live reviews

‘Triumphantly Wildean’: Oscar is a daring experiment in ballet storytelling

  • by Andrew Fuhrmann, Cameron Woodhead, Bridget Davies and Tony Way
This double bill is Sydney Dance Company at its best.
Sydney live reviews

This double bill from Sydney Dance Company is unmissable

  • by John Shand, Peter McCallum and Chantal Nguyen
Hamlet at fortyfivedownstairs
Melbourne live reviews

Now this is how you put on a production of Hamlet

  • by Cameron Woodhead, Kate Jones, Tony Way and Michael Dwyer

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