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  • Ryan Coogler, photographed in New York, April 2025

    Film
    ‘My heart broke’: director Ryan Coogler on mourning Chadwick Boseman, rebooting Black Panther and his new movie Sinners

    The highest grossing Black film-maker of all time is known for his superhero movies and reinventing the Rocky franchise. Now he’s made his most personal film yet – and it’s a vampire thriller
  • Lou Wall, comedian

    Stage
    Lou Wall: Breaking the Fifth Wall review – a silly and profound standup masterpiece

    Melbourne international comedy festival, then touring
    The Australian comedian’s latest show takes a straightforward story about Facebook Marketplace and unravels it into something much more meta
  • Richard Roxburgh in 2025 Australian film The Correspondent

    Film
    The Correspondent review – Richard Roxburgh is excellent as jailed journalist Peter Greste

  • Adrian Collette at senate estimates

    Art and design
    Embattled Creative Australia boss served angry letters from staff and 600 literary figures amid Sabsabi fallout

    Letters from staff expressed ‘complete lack of confidence in your ability to lead this organisation effectively’ and fears over participating in external inquiry
    • Klaas Roemers, 90, and Fenny Roemers-Visser, 86, holding hands. The photograph was taken, with permission, by their son Martin moments after their deaths. They had applied to end their lives under the Netherlands' assisted dying process

      Art and design
      My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

    • Tom Gleisner wearing dark navy jacket over pale blue shirt stands in a corridoor lined with posters, smiling.

      Culture
      Tom Gleisner: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    • Dutch angle shot of a man in a green and black checked shirt and a red cap standing in front of a bookstore receiving a book from someone to his right and passing a book to someone on his left.

      Books
      ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

    • Neil Young: Coastal

      Film
      Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

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  • Julio Torres

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    Julio Torres: ‘When I worked at SNL, I thought Shawn Mendes was an intern’

    The comedian and absurdist on his favourite letters and colours and least favourite shapes
  • Filipino-Australian singer and songwriter, grentperez (real name Grant Perez) in his family home and local streets in Sydney's Western Suburbs. Monday March 24, 2025. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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    grentperez: the gen Z crooner who started on YouTube at 13 – and now sings to millions

  • Composite image featuring covers of 11 books: Landfall by James Bradley, Unsettled by Kate Grenville, I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang, The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed, Pocket Pickler by Alex Elliott-Howery, Out of the Woods by Gretchen Shirm, Human/Nature by Jane Rawson, The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana, The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton, The Confidence Woman by Sophie Quick, Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn

    Bookmark this
    ‘Blood-pumping’, ‘outstanding’, ‘urgent and essential’: the best Australian books out in April

  • Lead image for the April edition for Stream Lovers featuring (L-R): The Last of Us, Memoir of a Snail, Season 7 of Black Mirror and Andor

    Stream lover
    New Andor, The Last of Us and Black Mirror: what’s new to streaming in Australia in April

  • Vincent Oliver

    Stream team
    The Glassworker: Studio Ghibli’s legacy lives in Pakistan’s first hand-drawn feature

  • Tom Gleisner wearing dark navy jacket over pale blue shirt stands in a corridoor lined with posters, smiling.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Tom Gleisner: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Australia this month

  • Ione Skye

    Books
    ‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir

    The actor’s aptly named memoir Say Everything has been praised as raw, revealing, disarming and horny
  • Anne-Louise Lambert, Jane Vallis and Karen Robson in Picnic at Hanging Rock.

    Picnic at Hanging Rock at 50: how a low-budget whodunnit became a cultural juggernaut

  • Back row, from left: Lou Wall, Broden Kelly and Julio Torres. Front row: Flo & Joan

    From Classic Penguins to One Man Musical: the best live shows to see at Melbourne international comedy festival and beyond

  • ‘I’ll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt’: Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison

  • Kate Grenville: ‘I’m recognising the way in which I don’t belong in Australia. I don’t have to pretend any more’

  • Melbourne cinema says threats caused it to cancel fundraising screening of Oscar-winning Palestinian displacement film

  • Wake in Fright understood the horrors of Australian booze culture. 50 years on, nothing’s changed

    Joseph Earp

  • The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain

  • Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of Phryne Fisher murder mysteries, dies aged 70

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Australian reviews

  • Book Cover of I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang. Author Rachel Ang

    I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang review – an unforgettable graphic novel

  • Composite image of Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn book review Guardian Australia.

    Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn review – this unsettling novel is utterly compelling

    In his fourth novel, the author leans into dark and surreal territory, focusing on a small Australian town during a mysterious global catastrophe
  • Cyndi Lauper performing

    Cyndi Lauper review – 80s pop eccentric hasn’t changed a bit

    Her farewell tour is a pockmarked history of her roots and wide-ranging influences, full of her trademark elan and vigour
  • Book review composite featuring author Yumna Kassab (L) and The Theory of Everything book cover

    The Theory of Everything by Yumna Kassab review – this kaleidoscopic experiment is a delight

  • A still from In Vitro, 2025 Australian film. Starring Ashley Zukerman as Jack and Talia Zucker as Layla and Will Howarth as Brady

    In Vitro review – a suspenseful marriage drama set on a futuristic Australian cattle farm

  • Liz Stringer - The Second High Press Shot

    Liz Stringer: The Second High review – an intelligent, assured album from a singular musician

  • ‘Full of big reveals balanced by surprising details’: The Last Anniversary.

    Television
    The Last Anniversary review – Liane Moriarty adaptation with one of Australian TV’s best ensembles

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Reviews

  • Ambika Mod as Selma Desai in Playdate.

    Television & radio
    The Stolen Girl review – you will forget this enjoyably preposterous thriller within five seconds of finishing it

  • As if he is perplexed by the script … Steve Coogan and penguin in The Penguin Lessons.

    Film
    The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

    Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina
  • In a suit, he stands in a used car lot holding a drill

    Television & radio
    Government Cheese review – David Oyelowo’s new drama is utterly meaningless

    The Selma star is excellent in a beautiful-looking, zany, 60s-set show about a former criminal. But it is a big pile of random whimsy with very little coherent narrative

  • Film
    Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

  • Television & radio
    The Last of Us season two review – Bella Ramsey is absolutely wonderful

  • Film
    Drop review – Meghann Fahy stars in scary smartphone thriller

  • Books
    Audition by Katie Kitamura review – an evasive experiment

  • Film
    Kaiju No 8: Mission Recon review – the fury and rawness of battle as monsters keep coming

  • Television & radio
    Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution review – the new companion is spot on

  • Books
    Bird School by Adam Nicolson review – where are all our feathered friends?

  • Television & radio
    Black Mirror season seven review – Charlie Brooker’s thrilling satire gets its warmest, most human season ever

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News

  • Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman at the Golden Globe awards, 2003

    New details of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s final days released

    Arakawa was shown to have been researching medical conditions related to Covid-19 and flu and police bodycam footage from inside the couple’s home released
  • a man in a suit sits at a table flanked by police

    Some prospective Weinstein jurors make clear they can’t be fair in judging

  • Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration

  • Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

  • Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

  • HBO reveals first part of Harry Potter TV cast, including Dumbledore and Hagrid

  • Sony hikes PlayStation 5 price by 25% as Trump tariffs bite

  • White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood condemns SNL’s ‘mean and unfunny’ sketch

  • The Rock to co-author true crime book about Hawaii mob boss to be adapted by Martin Scorsese

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Interviews

  • Shirley Manson pictured this year.

    Music
    ‘I’ve pulled myself out of a very dark abyss’: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on depression, sexism, dodgy hips and happiness

  • Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

    Music
    ‘Have the courage to walk away’: Bon Iver on romance, retirement and his rapturous new record

    Riven with anxiety from years of touring, Justin Vernon found he couldn’t leave the house. Then a new relationship changed his concept of love. His radiant new album shares the revelations
  • Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review.

    Culture
    ‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time

    Bridgerton star Bessie – soon to play Nancy Mitford in a new TV drama – and her mum, acting royalty Imelda, talk Sondheim, sandwiches and taking the stage together in Shaw’s sex worker scandal Mrs Warren’s Profession
  • Mark Hoppus looking pensive in a red sweater

    Music
    ‘I thought I was going to die – and it was so freeing’: Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on stardom, breakups and surviving cancer

  • Chaka Khan

    Music
    Chaka Khan on Prince, poetry and wild, wonderful nights: ‘No one’s done anything but craziness at 4am’

  • Bevis with the Women’s Championship belt at Wembley Stadium in 2023.

    Culture
    The wrestler with nine lives: how Saraya survived alcohol, abuse, injury and a leaked sex tape

  • ‘He brings more to the role because of the life he’s lived’ … director Uberto Pasolini (right) on the set of The Return with Ralph Fiennes (Odysseus).

    Film
    ‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

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Pictures & video

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    Lady Gaga, Green Day and Enhypen: 2025 Coachella festival – in pictures

  • Cheek by jowl<br>Margaret Ambridge, Cheek by jowl, 2024, charcoal and rainwater on paper, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Mark Fitz-Gerald Charcoal on paper, 9 panels 168cm x 218cm (HxW).

    Dobell prize 2025: Australia’s leading prize for drawing – in pictures

    The $30,000 biennial Dobell drawing prize is known for pushing the boundaries among Australian artists, with 56 finalists chosen from 965 entries
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    Stars so bright you gotta wear shades: backstage at the Olivier awards 2025 – in pictures

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    Steppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in pictures

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