Nic Cage’s latest flick The Surfer, filmed along the iconic Yallingup coastline, has dropped its first trailer ahead of the film’s premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend.
Zach Margolius
The festival is set to return ‘bigger, better and brighter’ than ever next month with a host of world-class artists.
Lauren Price
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The theme of Billie Eilish's new album Hit Me Hard And Soft is an outlier in that it is centred on love and its accompanying heartbreak.
Ellie Iorizzo
The 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards have paid tribute to the late Toby Keith, while Lainey Wilson took home the female artist of the year gong.
Maria Sherman
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Production has commenced for Prime Video’s new eight-part drama, Top End Bub, which sees writer and creator Miranda Tapsell and The Great’s Gwilym Lee return to continue the story of newlyweds Lauren and Ned.
Clare Rigden
With Megalopolis, Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola is in the running for the Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Miranda Murray
Dr Chris Brown’s gleaming smile and chiselled jawline have been gracing our TV screens since he rose to fame on Bondi Vet in 2009 — but the star says everyone likes his lesser-known dad more.
Kellie Balaam
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has celebrated turning 40 with recreations of places he lived when he was younger.
Miriam Keupper
Magician David Copperfield has denied new sexual misconduct allegations levelled against him.
Paul Farrell
The closure of The Mirage hotel in Las Vegas will clear the way for major renovations on the property, which is to reopen in 2027 as the Hard Rock Las Vegas.
Rio Yamat
WA Symphony Orchestra returns to Albany in August with principal conductor Asher Fisch and WA star violinist Riley Skevington in a concert of Debussy, Barber and Franck.
David Cusworth
Several celebrity supporters of Kevin Spacey say he should be able to resume his acting career, in the wake of a new documentary about the star.
Romance was Born has collaborated with artist and performer Zaachariaha Fielding for its showing at Fashion Week.
Liz Hobday
Chris Hemsworth gives the performance of his career and Anya Taylor-Joy kicks serious butt in George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the most expensive film ever made in Australia.
Ben O'Shea
‘Francois Civil’s D’Artagnan makes O’Donnell’s look like a soggy croissant, while Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris and Pio Marmai are equally wonderful as Athos, Aramis and Porthos, respectively.’
From an arts networking event to a whaling history tour, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern.
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The National Gallery of Australia has rebuffed demands from mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to remove a portrait of her from an exhibition.
The mysterious backdrop to one of the world's most famous works of art may have been solved by a geologist who has pinpointed a small town on a lake shore.
Alex Fraser
The budget has allocated funds to upgrade a facility that is home to milestones in Australian history captured on highly flammable nitrate film .
The Darwin Symphony Orchestra will be able to pay all of its principal musicians for the first time following a $1 million federal budget funding boost.
Miniature poodle Sage has won the top prize at the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, the 11th triumph for the poodle breed.
Jennifer Peltz
With outstanding vocals and a raw energy bursting from the cast, this is a show with a throbbing pulse.
Melinda Webster