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Grouplove: Australians were the first audience to lift us up

“When I was a kid, I did a project on Australia,” says Christian Zucconi of Grouplove. “We all had to pick a country to do a report on, and I picked Australia. I became obsessed with it."

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There’s fun to be had in the messy, dumb Insidious: The Last Key

Insidious: The Last Key isn’t going to change your life. But then again, it doesn’t really want to. Its targets are visceral, and deliberately small – to get sweat forming on the back of your neck; to get the hairs on your arms to struggle up to attention.

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Black Panther is an extraordinary burst of vitality for the Marvel cinematic universe

Black Panther is a vital film for Marvel, and one that’s long, long overdue for a successful franchise pushing close to 20 films.

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Laneway 2018 was a stunning victory for its “smaller” acts

Oh, and Kirin J. Callinan was lurking around too, being a pest.

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Billy Fleming and Zach Stephenson of Hockey Dad

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Hockey Dad are having the time of their fucking lives

Hanging out in their Wollongong hometown, the duo talk music, surf, and hard-earned success.

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Jessica Chastain on the inherent freedom of being flawed

"When one person is victimised we all are, and we have to acknowledge that. But when a group of people who have been abused and victimised combine their powers? It’s a very difficult thing to suppress.”

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Calexico’s Joey Burns wants us to listen up, then speak up

"It’s very important to us that our daughters are strong and stand up and speak for themselves and don’t succumb to any pressures from the past that are male based. We want them to be independent and fierce."

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Nocturama, available on Netflix, is one hard sell

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Nocturama is a film about a bunch of extraordinarily bored terrorists

Nocturama is a hard proposition to sell, but here goes nothing: the largely wordless, poetic (read: slow) film follows a group of young radicals who conduct a series of terror attacks across Paris.

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The cast of Stephen Elliott's new film Swinging Safari

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“The darkness interests me” – Stephen Elliott on his new film Swinging Safari

"Australians are funny bastards. It’s kind of dying now, but there isn’t an Australian around the world who isn’t afraid of making a complete dick of themselves."

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The prematurely axed Mission Hill was a ’90s cartoon ahead of its years

With writers from The Simpsons, and Rick and Morty's Dominic Polcino, Mission Hill missed its chance to capture the story of a 20-something cartoon writer.

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Does Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore stand the test of time?

"The Price Is Right's Bob Barker insisted he perform his own stunts, having trained in Tang Soo Do karate for decades under Chuck Norris (you can’t make this shit up)."

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