Critique and Theory

Bob Marley: One Love releases in cinemas on Valentine's Day, which is canny timing given the romance it portrays.

The original Mr & Mrs Smith starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt led to some legendary popular culture moments. Now, a TV series starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine provides a new take on the 2005 film. And they couldn't be more different.

This Cannes Jury Prize-winning film set in the scenic Italian Alps is travel-porn worthy – but its central narrative about friendship and the loss of youthful idealism has clout.

Starring Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx and Australian actor Isla Fisher, Strays is an R-rated comedy about friendship that will have you howling with laughter.  

With youthful energy and a quintessentially Australian soundtrack, the debut film from the RackaRacka brothers hits all the right notes.

It's not often I'll review an ABC show, but rest assured, if I thought it was trash, I would say so. In Limbo is exquisite, writes Mawunyo Gbogbo.

The writer-director — who also often appears in his own films — is making his 10th and final film, called The Movie Critic. So, here are five Tarantino movies to watch ahead of his final release and where to see them.

The 65th Grammy awards celebrated hip hop. But the Grammys has zero credibility in the hip hop community after spending the majority of the past 50 years rewarding some inconsequential artists and turning a blind eye to the game changers.

Actor Pamela Anderson releases a new book and a Netflix documentary, saying she's never loved anyone like the musician father of her children, who she divorced after he was violent.

You may think you've heard it all and don't need to read Prince Harry's book — but the media coverage only gives you part of the picture.

Described as "the greatest voice of her generation", it goes without saying that Whitney Houston's original vocals just had to be heard in newly opened biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

A torrent of negative publicity surrounding actor Will Smith following that Oscars slap shouldn't prevent people from tuning into Emancipation, according to Australian actor Charmaine Bingwa, who co-stars in the film and says the story is too "important" to ignore.

It was a fixture of the nightly news during the 1980s and 90s, but few young Australians know the history of the Aboriginal tent embassy. A new documentary airing tonight promises to change that.

The Australian main stage debut of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun offers audiences a reality check, without beating you over the head, according to some of its cast members. 

There's still time to see Cruel Intentions: the 90s Musical if you're in Sydney before it heads to Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra … just don't take it too seriously. 

You don't need to have watched season one of Bridgerton to enjoy season two. But why would you want to miss season one? Here's your season two preview. WARNING: spoilers.

With an "animal orchestra", talking rivers and living artworks, the Biennale puts the voice of nature centrestage.

9 to 5 the Musical opened in Sydney in February, marking a return to live theatre after the show was previously postponed due to the pandemic. So what does the audience think of the show now that some people have had a chance to see it? It wraps up in Sydney May 8, and then moves to Brisbane, then Melbourne.

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee had very different outcomes when their private sex tape was stolen and leaked. A new series sheds light on what happened.

Live performances, especially magic shows, rely on audience engagement and participation — which takes some real creative conjuring during a pandemic.

Street artists all over the world have ventured out into quiet streets and left behind vibrant, thought-provoking, amusing commentary on the coronavirus crisis, writes Tyson Mitman.

Gwyneth Paltrow's Netflix series has dropped, and our health reporter is here to sift the good advice from the egregious.

Gwyneth Paltrow's new Goop has started on Netflix. While it's easy to laugh off Goop's vagina candles or jade eggs, the threat of medical misinformation shouldn't be taken so lightly, writes Olivia Willis.

Australian-Indonesian comics artist Ariel Ries didn't see herself reflected in books or on screen. So she started drawing.

Ride Like a Girl's real strength is it never lets anything get in the way of telling the superb true story at its heart.