MAGIC MAKERS: Dreamworks animation
DreamWorks Animation has been responsible for some of the most recognisable characters to appear in cinemas and on lunch boxes around the world. This...
VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Love is (almost) all you need
Neither history nor fantasy is very kind to us stepmothers. From fairytales to famous families, we are tormenting or neglectful, vicious and jealous, manipulating...
SPECIAL: From real life to runway
Internationally renowned fashion designer Toni Maticevski didn’t have to wait long to discover his calling in life.
From as far back as the age of...
SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a...
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FILM
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Opens April 10, Rated M, 99 min
» www.grandbudapesthotel.com
Jumping backwards through several narrative frames – each with a corresponding shift in aspect ratio...
INTERVIEW: Julie McCrossin | The voice returns
Julie McCrossin had no voice for quite a while last year as she started her road to recovery from throat cancer.
Of course, it’s ironic...
TRAVEL: Warming up to Ningaloo Reef
The World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Coast is famous for close encounters with whale sharks, the world’s largest fish.
But this 260-kilometre reef off Western Australia’s coral...
MY VIEW: I’m becoming phone phobic
I’ve just hung up from a phone call with a colleague and said thanks for calling, and then realised it was me who called...
SPECIAL: Colin Hay, man at work
Colin Hay is sitting in the front room of his house in the hills above Los Angeles. It is 1993. Details of the day...
INTERVIEW: Ray Martin, the next chapter
She’s thousands of kilometres away, on a small screen, but from where I sit it’s evident this is a father-daughter relationship based on mutual...
PREVIEW: Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Adam Rozenbachs – Breaking Booze
Destined to be playing in some of the Festival’s biggest and most prestigious rooms in the coming years, Adam Rozenbachs’...
MY SHOUT: To be fare
The Napthine government’s pledge to scrap the higher train fare between zones 1 and 2 (which has been matched by the Labor Opposition) is...
SPECIAL: Vanessa O’Hanlon | Eye in the sky
The slim blonde is delivering a piece to camera when from behind her lurches a snarling clutch of lost souls, blood streaming down their...
QUE SERA: A life cradled in memory
“You can always sell June,” my mother said, apropos of nothing, as I spooned custard into her mouth.
She’s lost the inclination to eat most...
VIRGINIA TRIOLI: For future reference
The voice at the end of the phone was surprisingly blunt: yes, she said, she had checked this particular employee’s references – but how...
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