Culture

Arcade dance game player, 24-year-old Kazie Lim.

Social media

Players can’t put a foot wrong as dance games become TikTok craze

Dance Dance Revolution and Dancerush Stardom players have taken to TikTok to show off their skills on the classic arcade games.

by Frances Howe

★★★½

Review

In neo-noir Babylon Berlin, the heroes are never black and white

by Ben Pobjie

Arts

Small secret becomes online puzzle phenomenon (6,7)

by Elizabeth Flux

Lea Drucker and Samuel Kircher in <i>Last Summer</i>.

Review

Almost everything in this film will divide audiences – that’s why it’s great

by Jake Wilson

Industry follows the lives of a group of young investment bankers.

Streaming

Bullying, backstabbing and betrayal: Is Industry the new Succession?

by Debi Enker

Movies

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Cinema

It’s curtains: Paddington’s Chauvel cinema down to ‘its last days’

Having shut the Verona this year, the Palace arthouse chain said its last Oxford Street cinema might not last beyond this month.

by Garry Maddox

Léa Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin (who plays her husband, Pierre) and Samuel Kircher in Last Summer.

Review

Almost everything in this film will divide audiences – that’s why it’s great

Last Summer suggests that when desire takes hold, morality flies out the window.

by Jake Wilson

Thelma (June Squibb) and her grandson Danny (Fred Hechinger) have a close relationship in Thelma.

★★★★

Review

Inspired, witty and full of warmth, June Squibb’s Thelma steals the show

by Sandra Hall

Catherine O’Hara as Delia, Jenna Ortega as Astrid, Winona Ryder as Lydia and Justin Theroux as Rory in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

★★★½

Review

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice offers a heartwarming story about grief

by Jake Wilson

Cinema

Redeem free movie passes to see Kid Snow*

TV & radio

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Cancer

Sunrise presenter diagnosed with leukaemia

Sunrise presenter Edwina Bartholomew has shared her cancer diagnosis with viewers.

by Garry Maddox

Jenna Coleman and Archie Renaux in The Jetty.

★★★½

Streaming

Yes it’s another British crime drama, but it’s not your usual suspect

The Jetty flips gender archetypes, but Detective Constable Manning is more than a standard antihero police detective.

by Craig Mathieson

Comedian Luke McGregor and his mum Julie in The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition.

Australian TV

Luke McGregor had to do a ‘sexy dance’ on The Amazing Race – with his mum

by Bridget McManus

DC Universe

Colin Farrell’s Penguin is more Godfather than feathered fiend

by Michael Idato

A young lady was speechless after learning her mother's 1960's brooch was worth thousands on Antiques Roadshow on 9Now. — 0:48

Daughter stunned to learn value of her mother's 'ugly brooch'

Starring Tom Blyth, brand new episodes of Billy The Kid are now streaming, only on Stan.

Every pleasure has a price. The brand new Stan Original Series Hotel Cocaine is now streaming.

Music

Gabriella Cilmi, forgotten favourite, at the 2008 ARIAs.

The Verdict

The greatest year in Australian music? No question, it was 2008

by Tom W. Clarke

Nick Cave on his Australian tour in April this year.

Opinion

Religion

Does Nick Cave now believe in an ‘interventionist God’? It’s not beyond belief

by Danielle Terceiro

A senior Melbourne Symphony Orchestra staff member who raised concerns about the conduct of then-managing director Sophie Galaise was given a $200,000-plus payout to quietly leave the organisation and not pursue a formal complaint.

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Performing arts

MSO’s dark past of secret payouts, gag orders, buried complaints

by Chip Le Grand

Barkaa has done it tough and come out the other side. But her daughter still thinks she’s cringe.

Australian music

Rapper Barkaa wants ‘white men to be very scared of me’. This is her victory lap

by Meg Watson

New music

‘If Bono and Springsteen can run around and do their art, why can’t LL Cool J?’

by Robert Moran

The 25-year-old, who daylights for indie band Wednesday, has been slouching towards stardom with his solo career.

Review

Indie rock has a new slacker god, and he’s made an instant classic

by Robert Moran

Live reviews

Almost 50 years after the band formed, Iron Maiden brings their hellfire and fury to Rod Laver Arena.

Melbourne live reviews

Iron Maiden’s apocalypse won’t be televised, but rings in our ears

by Michael Dwyer and Cameron Woodhead

Jessica Tovey, Nigel Poulton and Madeline Li.

Sydney live reviews

Megamix of murder and mayhem doesn’t quite kill it

by John Shand and Joyce Morgan

Kate Amos, Lucy Schneider, Chloe James, Michael Honeyman, Juel Riggall and Adrian Li Donni in <i>The Children’s Bach.</i>

Melbourne live reviews

Helen Garner says this is the best thing she’s written. But does it work as an opera?

by Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Bridget Davies, Andrew Fuhrmann, Tony Way, Jessica Nicholas and Barney Zwartz

Celebrity

Cancer

Sunrise presenter Edwina Bartholomew's cancer announcement

Chappell Roan has called out the behaviour of certain “entitled” fans, but is that fair?

Pop culture

Chappell Roan wants her superfans to give her space. Is that fair?

by Nell Geraets

Celebrity life

Mariah Carey’s mother and sister die on the same day, singer says her heart is broken

by Kaitlyn Huamani

Stage

Social media

Players can’t put a foot wrong as dance games become latest TikTok craze

by Frances Howe

Malthouse Theatre director Matthew Lutton at Embla

Lunch with

Cents and sensibility: The new certainty playing out in theatres

by Cassidy Knowlton

Callum Linnane (seated) as Oscar Wilde and Benjamin Garrett as Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas in the Australian Ballet’s Oscar. Photographed at Villa Alba in Kew.

Performing arts

Inside the ‘big, gay’ story the ballet has been scared to tell

by Kerrie OBrien

Stage

‘Transformative’: The musical that freed Tina Turner from her past

by Michael Dwyer

Art & design

Jiawei Shen in his Bundeena studio in 2010.

Sydney scenes

Tiny town bats well above average when it comes to artists

by Nick Galvin

Arts

Small secret becomes online puzzle phenomenon (6,7)

by Elizabeth Flux

Brenna Hobson, formerly of the National Theatre of Scotland, now head of programming at the Sydney Opera House.

Lunch with

Could this be the new face of the Sydney Opera House?

by Helen Pitt

Robin Sen and Joe Ireland, co-founders of Mode Festival.

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Music festivals

The ‘harmful’ festival law adding $30 to the price of a ticket

by Linda Morris

Books

Charles and Barbara Blackman seen in 1977 at the opening of an exhibition of his paintings.

Review

The Blackman family letters paint a picture of a cultural moment

by Chloe Wolifson

Natalie Paull confessed her nervousness about eclairs at the Dunkeld Writers Festival.

Literature

Small but perfectly formed – a new trend in writers festivals

by Jane Sullivan

Review

Walking a tightrope during Stalin’s reign of terror

by Daniel Herborn

Review

What to read: A documentary novel about the pandemic, and the joys of trees

by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp

The Sydney Morning Herald

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