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Nicole Kidman as chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

It’s based on a best-selling series, but Nicole Kidman seems almost bored in this TV adaptation

Scarpetta is mid-TV, the kind that gives the impression of being prestige, but it leaves you felling, well, meh. You watch it, you move on. It doesn’t stick. 

  • Louise Rugendyke

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The Australian actor plays Nicole Kidman's husband in the crime drama -- and, for once, he's happy he's not the lead.
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Simon Baker on the end of his pretty boy era, and finding the quiet in Scarpetta

The Australian actor plays Nicole Kidman's husband in the crime drama -- and, for once, he's happy he's not the lead.

Simon Baker in enjoying the freedom that comes with age, in terms of choosing more complicated roles.

Simon Baker is no longer in his ‘pretty-boy’ era – and he’s just fine with that

Long a leading man, the Australian actor is now enjoying the freedom of getting older – and he’s delivering some of his best work yet.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Celebrating the return of Tropfest over a coffee at the Tropicana Caffe, where it began in 1993: Tropfest founder John Polson, right, with actor-producer Bryan Brown and director Charlotte McLaverty, whose career kicked off with a Trop Jr short.

The sweet request that prompted the return of Tropfest

The short film festival has been on hiatus since 2019 – but a suggestion from its founder’s daughters set the stage for its return.

  • Garry Maddox
Actor Simon Baker leaves the Mullumbimby Court House in Mullumbimby, NSW, on Wednesday.

Simon Baker avoids conviction for drink-driving charge

The Hollywood star was met by a media scrum when he arrived at Mullumbimby Local Court in NSW on Wednesday wearing a sage-green suit.

  • Fraser Barton
Actor Simon Baker has pleaded guilty to drink-driving

Actor Simon Baker pleads guilty to drink-driving

The Boy Swallows Universe star has pleaded guilty to drink-driving in a northern NSW court.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
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Boy Swallows Universe author Trent Dalton. His best-selling novel has now been turned into a seven-part Netflix series.

‘I was so overwhelmed’: Why Trent Dalton couldn’t stay on set of Boy Swallows Universe

The TV adaptation of the best-selling book has been an emotional ride for its author, who was confronted once again with his troubled childhood.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Simon Baker stars in Ivan Sen’s outback crime drama Limbo.

In Limbo we watch as an unrecognisable Simon Baker takes on a cold case

The director of Mystery Road and Goldstone, Ivan Sen, returns to a tried-and-true formula to examine the schisms between black and white Australia.

  • Paul Byrnes
Julia Savage gives a remarkable performance as Blaze, who uses her childhood dragon to help cope with trauma.

Swarovski-studded dragon breathes fire into a bold Aussie movie

Del Kathryn Barton’s psychological thriller Blaze boasts a remarkable performance from Julia Savage as a young girl who witnesses a horrific crime.

  • Sandra Hall
Julia Savage stars as Blaze in artist Del Kathryn Barton’s first feature film.

The real trauma behind Del Kathryn Barton’s astonishing new movie

The Archibald Prize-winning artist has directed a gut-knotting story about the aftermath of a sexual assault witnessed by a 12-year-old girl called Blaze.

  • Louise Rugendyke