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Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up
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Nearly ten years after Fleet Foxes' rustic chorale first soared, it is a decidedly different sound that opens their melancholy and intensely personal third album Crack-Up. -
Wayne Tunks' Bitch
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For a play that is named Bitch, comedy thankfully finds a great home here. -
Sydney Film Festival: The Divine Order
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In this incredible story director Petra Volpe explores not only the emotional and legal complications of womens' rights but also the timeless complexities of the human experience of both men and women. -
Big Thief: Capacity
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Big Thief's Capacity is like stepping into the mind of steely-eyed singer and guitarist Adrianne Lenker, and just as confronting as you would expect. -
Only Heaven Knows
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Musical celebration boy-meets-boy romance Only Heaven Knows originally premiered in Kings Cross in 1988 and returns this month to The Cross. -
Sydney Film Festival: Whitney 'Can I Be Me'
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It's sad and its dramatic and we all know the fodder Whitney's not totally unexpected death provided the tabloid press. But don't expect the same from this latest instalment to her story. -
Chastity Belt: I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
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I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone is like the aftermath of a party. -
Mr Burns, a post-electric play
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Mr Burns, a post-electric play is a fitfully absorbing, frustratingly uneven work that you'll never, ever forget. -
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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More than half a century after it was first performed, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is still a striking comedy drama that drips with venom, filled with darkly magnetic characters. -
Perfume Genius: No Shape
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Coming after three albums of intensely cathartic introspection, No Shape is an expression of otherworldly joy befitting a talent as singular as Perfume Genius. -
Spanish Baroque: Brandenburg and Circa
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The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra continues to WOW in holistic performance beyond the sensitivity of period instruments and music. -
Jamila Woods: HEAVN
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Thick and sometimes urgent grooves taken from hip-hop rub up against gospel uplift, jazz exploration, bossa nova breezes and soulful fervour in beautiful and exciting ways. -
Get Out
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Get Out is a radical statement of pitch black humour that goes to extreme lengths because it has to. -
Hue Blanes' Holiday
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An exquisite range of unique and courageous pieces that blurs the line between music and storytelling -
The Bodyguard
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Paulini steals the show in her star performance as Rachel Marron, a role which showcases not only her amazing voice and stage presence but also unveils enormous sensitivity and nuance in her acting. -
Sex Object
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The worlds of art and porn - beauty and depravity - align in Sex Object, the latest play to grace the stage at Marrickville's Depot Theatre. -
Berlin Syndrome
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It was certainly not intentional, but there is a delicious irony to the arrival of Cate Shortland's masterful thriller Berlin Syndrome to cinemas at the same time as Disney's live action Beauty & the Beast. -
Their Finest
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If you are looking for a movie that is light-hearted and funny but simultaneously explores feminism and analyses the story-telling capacity of film, this is the one for you -
Denial
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Denial had its work cut out for it to make the film as equally engaging and entertaining as it is to do justice to all the people that suffered under the Holocaust. -
Ellie, Abbie, & Ellie's Dead Aunt
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Ellie, Abbie & Ellie's Dead Aunt, at its very heart, is a romantic comedy about firsts, whether it be your first love, your first born or your first heartbreak.