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Backrooms Is the Horror Movie Turning Internet Lore Into Existential Dread

Backrooms Is the Horror Movie Turning Internet Lore Into Existential Dread

A viral internet horror concept gets the feature treatment, and director's filtering of videogames and YouTube aesthetics into corporate dread actually lands.

Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette Gets Its 20th-Anniversary Moment at Versailles

Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette Gets Its 20th-Anniversary Moment at Versailles

Twenty years on, Coppola's most divisive film gets its ultimate victory lap: an exhibition staged in the actual palace it was filmed in.

Everything We Know About Avengers: Doomsday Ahead of December

Everything We Know About Avengers: Doomsday Ahead of December

A theatrical re-release, a shared release date with Dune, and the final film of Marvel's Phase 6. Here's where things stand ahead of December 17.

5 Fall Culture Events Not to Miss

5 Fall Culture Events Not to Miss

Art fairs, a 20th-anniversary Sofia Coppola tie-in, and a first-ever US retrospective. The exhibitions actually worth planning a trip around this fall.

Netflix Is Bringing Live NFL to Australia This Month

Netflix Is Bringing Live NFL to Australia This Month

The 49ers face the Rams in a live broadcast from Australia, part of Netflix's expanding live sports push and a rare chance to catch NFL streamed live locally.

Vivienne Westwood: Rebel, Storyteller, Visionary Opens at The Bowes Museum

Vivienne Westwood: Rebel, Storyteller, Visionary Opens at The Bowes Museum

A retrospective tracing punk's most influential designer, running through the fall at a museum better known for silverware than safety pins.

Mayday Is the 1980s Throwback Action Movie We Didn't Know We Needed

Mayday Is the 1980s Throwback Action Movie We Didn't Know We Needed

Ryan Reynolds plays a fighter pilot dropped behind enemy lines in a film that plays it 1987-straight. No irony, no winking at the camera, just genre filmmaking done properly.

The Strokes announce 2027 Australian tour, headline new Sydney Summertime with Beck

The Strokes announce 2027 Australian tour, headline new Sydney Summertime with Beck

The Strokes will play Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in February 2027, with Courtney Barnett supporting and Beck joining the band's only outdoor show at the new Sydney Summertime series.

Jim Henson Company exhibition opens at GOMA, exclusive to Brisbane

Jim Henson Company exhibition opens at GOMA, exclusive to Brisbane

Make, Believe, Magic brings hundreds of puppets, creatures, sets and drawings from 70 years of The Jim Henson Company to Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art until 18 April 2027.

Hobart's Mona is opening its first overseas museum, on Bangkok's Chao Phraya River

Hobart's Mona is opening its first overseas museum, on Bangkok's Chao Phraya River

David Walsh's Museum of Old and New Art will open Mona Bangkok at Asiatique The Riverfront in 2029, themed around light and reached by a cable car across the river.

Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles will be shown in Western Australia for the first time in 2027

Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles will be shown in Western Australia for the first time in 2027

The National Gallery of Australia is lending Blue poles to the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 30 April to 5 September 2027, and entry will be free.

Omar Musa wins the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Fierceland

Omar Musa wins the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Fierceland

Queanbeyan-raised writer Omar Musa has won the A$60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Fierceland, a family saga set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.