Film & TV production
When a TV show on a real-life story covers big ideas, do small glitches matter?
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Louise Rugendyke, Katrina Strickland, Nicole Abadee, Barry Divola and Melissa Fyfe
Latest
Official trailer for Billy The Kid Season 2 Part 2
Tom Blyth is back in brand new episodes of Billy The Kid, premiering June 3, only on Stan.
MasterChef overhauled its judging line-up. Has it worked?
The behemoth cooking show has a new group of judges, and they’re reminders of the program’s core values.
- by Ben Pobjie
Meet Angourie Rice: Rising Hollywood star, published writer, podcaster – and just 23
Melburnian Rice was acting alongside Ryan Gosling and Nicole Kidman while her school friends were working at Kmart. Now, she’s scaling the Hollywood hills.
- by Brodie Lancaster
Magazine
Good Weekend
The April 27 Edition
Rising Hollywood star Angourie Rice | One writer’s Ozempic weight-loss conflict | F1 driver Mark Webber and his life-saving mate | A comedian’s advice to their younger self
Analysis
UK politics
UK politics so much funnier than fiction, comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.
- by Rob Harris
These tributes to the greatest composer of movie scores hit the right notes
The legacy of Ennio Morricone, who died in 2020, is captured in two recent documentaries, Ennio and Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America.
- by Tom Ryan
Inside the stunt that saw Ryan Gosling shut down the Harbour Bridge
Director David Leitch started his career as Brad Pitt’s stunt double, then Matt Damon’s. So who better to tell Ryan Gosling how to ride a broken bin across Sydney Harbour Bridge at 50km/h?
- by Louise Rugendyke
Is her husband a predator or innocent? This is a must-watch water cooler drama
In the six-part drama After the Party, Phil could be seen as an opportunistic manipulator, or as an innocent man demonised by his unhinged ex-wife Penny.
- by Debi Enker
Perspective
Netflix
Every show ever made is ours on demand. But television has never been so lonely
Having every program, from every era, available when we want has its upsides. But we might have lost something along the way.
- by Cameron Atfield