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ColdVoice at the Arts Centre, Melbourne.

Top kid-friendly activities in and around Melbourne next month

From nature walks to music and festivals, there are plenty of activities and events to captivate children

  • Sonia Nair

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Lenny Pearce leads the rave.

Top kid-friendly activities in and around Sydney this month

From science to magic and music, keep the family entertained with these activities and events.

  • Nicole Elphick

By 13, she was bored with acting. Then this young Kiwi found her spark

Being shy, clueless about clothes and saying no to life in LA hasn’t stopped the rise of Thomasin McKenzie.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
Ralph Fiennes returns as a scientist conducting weird experiments.

Ralph Fiennes’ 28 Years Later sequel – a mess worth watching

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple swings from hectic carnage to contemplative interludes.

  • Jake Wilson
Kala Gare stars as Sybylla Melvyn in the original run of MTC’s inspired musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career.

The big, big shows hitting Melbourne and Sydney this year

With Australian adaptations, whodunnits and toe-tapping big budget musicals, there’s something for everyone in 2026.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Polish Club’s David Novak (left) and John-Henry Pajak. 

Feeling festive? Your guide to Sydney’s Christmas events, big and small

The city is full of seasonal festivities including concerts, markets, carolling sessions and plenty of opportunities to meet Saint Nick.

  • Nicole Elphick
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Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering in Nuremberg.

Russell Crowe shines as a disarming Goering in Nazi drama Nuremberg

In the film, also starring Rami Malek and Michael Shannon, Crowe’s perpetrator of atrocities projects an air of affability and common sense.

  • Sandra Hall
Emma Thompson in Dead of Winter.

Emma Thompson a credible, touching heroine in snowbound thriller

In Dead of Winter, the English star plays a woman menaced by armed kidnappers in a remote cabin.

  • Sandra Hall
“I loved the idea of the afterlife being bureaucratic and consumerist,” says Elizabeth Olsen of her role in Eternity.

Elizabeth Olsen’s new film got her thinking about the afterlife. Brace yourself

Starring in Eternity left the Hollywood star with some unusual ideas about where she’ll end up.

  • Richard Jinman
Josh O’Connor and Daniel Craig in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

Knives Out goes Gothic in latest Daniel Craig whodunnit parody

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery also stars Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington and Josh O’Connor.

  • Jake Wilson