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Sydney Film Festival: The Commune
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The film navigates the differences between physical distance and emotional distance, people's need for intimacy, and the power of empathy with charm, humour and biting eloquence. -
The Big Dry
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Stretching the Ensemble Theatre boundaries artistic director leads us into new territory with world premier Big Dry and a collaboration with the Australian Theatre For Young People. -
The Conjuring 2
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Demonic possession and haunted houses are on the menu again in the sequel to James Wan's 2013 film The Conjuring. -
Now You See Me: The Second Act
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The magic steals the show with plenty of playing cards flying around the screen in dazzling sleight of hand tricks, rain falling in the wrong direction, doves becoming reattached to their dismembered heads, and the ever-popular underwater safe break, to keep pulses racing. -
Marcus Whale: Inland Sea
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Combining hard hitting beats with swelling, sonorous textures, Inland Sea is a thrilling collision of aggression and sensuality. -
Ngaiire: Blastoma
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Blastoma is a brave album, with Ngaiire's gorgeous voice navigating a terrain of sharp, rocky beats and reaching a stunning emotional apex. -
Tribes
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Tribes is a well thought out and constructed play and promises to delight and entertain while reassuring you that your family is in fact, normal after all. -
Sydney Film Festival: Mustang
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The film is called Mustang for a reason; when you try to domesticate a wild horse it is only a matter of time before the horse is going to buck and break free. -
Queen of the Desert
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Queen of the Desert instead recalls Herzog's groundbreaking work in which he pits person against place; in this case famed British explorer Gertrude Bell and the expansive desert of the Middle East. -
Sydney Film Festival: Land of Mine
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Set in the 1940s, the Danish production Land of Mine is a film based on true events which brings forward the heartbreaking aftermath of World War II in Europe. -
Flume: Skin
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In its best moments, Skin brings the dynamism and arresting flurries of sound and ideas that are expected of Flume. -
Black Cab: "Uniforms" Single Launch
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With the launch of their new single “Uniforms”, Melbourne based band Black cab brought their hypnotic, melancholy synth sounds to create surreal dreamlike soundscapes. -
Yumi Zouma: Yoncalla
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When playing, Yumi Zouma never miss a beat, but when listening to them, your heart might. -
The Nice Guys
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The Nice Guys is immediately engaging and intriguing, with a string of murders and disappearances in 1977 Los Angeles slowly coalescing into a heavily loaded murder mystery -
Tinpan Orange at The Vanguard
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Stripped right back to just a guitar and vocals, the three musicians - Emily, her brother Jesse and Alex Burkoy - displayed just how well the three of them connect on stage. It was raw and intimate. -
Eagulls: Ullages
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Eagulls throwback sound succeeds better than other bands who mine the same era because they are adept at creating tension and texture with competing and complementary sounds. -
Sasa Sestic: The Coffee Man
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The amount of passion and knowledge that spilled out of the man’s brain was like an endless stream. If only it could be bottled up and taken home. -
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
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A Moon Shaped Pool is a gift given without pretence, without spin and without artist commentary. These eleven songs state and explain themselves like a self-sustaining microcosm. -
Anohni: Hopelessness
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Despite the album's title, its sound and ANOHNI's performance still look toward the future. She is not resigned, but passionate, frequently lifting her one-of-a-kind voice toward the soulful heights that longtime listeners will know and relish. -
Florence Foster Jenkins
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Florence Foster Jenkins embodied music, and the euphoric feeling she possessed when singing outweighed any form of logic.