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Garry Maddox

Garry Maddox

Garry Maddox is a Senior Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Exiled Russian master continues rebirth with Sydney Film Festival win

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s crime thriller Minotaur claimed the $60,000 competition prize for “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” cinema.

  • Garry Maddox

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Professor Richard Scolyer

‘The best of us’: We’re all poorer for the loss of the unstoppable Richard Scolyer

Garry Maddox and Scolyer became friends while writing the memoir Brainstorm – his death “feels shocking and sudden and sad”.

  • Garry Maddox
Pathologist Richard Scolyer is undergoing revolutionary brain cancer treatment.

Humble, heroic, selfless: Richard Scolyer beat the cancer odds but finally lost the battle

The world-renowned pathologist and researcher, who was joint Australian of the Year for 2024, became a familiar face nationwide after being diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour.

  • Garry Maddox
Passionate, driven and dedicated to improving outcomes for patients: Richard Scolyer at Petersham Park in February.

Former Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer dies

The world-recognised pathologist survived for three years after being diagnosed with a savage form of brain cancer.

  • Garry Maddox
Hugh Jackman as a grizzled Robin Hood.

Hugh Jackman’s dark and gritty Robin Hood plus nine other Sydney Film Festival standouts

The Australian star sheds his Wolverine skin for a very different take on the outlaw legend at this year’s festival.

  • Garry Maddox
Accidental star Sterling Nasa at home after a “top night” when he was called up as replacement for an ill musician during La La Land In Concert.

A musician was too sick to play, so the call went out to the audience. Sterling ran to the stage

Sterling Nasa answered a call from composer-conductor Justin Hurwitz when a musician was too sick to continue.

  • Garry Maddox
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Whistler Molly Lewis

She’s toured with Beck and collaborated with Dr Dre – meet our most unlikely music star

Molly Lewis always whistled, but she has turned a childhood pastime into a thriving international career.

  • Garry Maddox
David Hobson speaks at the memorial for ABC presenter James Valentine at the Town Hall in Sydney.

‘A room full of love’: Memorial a fitting celebration of James Valentine’s life

A listener who had never met the much-loved broadcaster, and his two children, all spoke movingly.

  • Garry Maddox
Broadcaster James Valentine died at home using voluntary assisted dying on Wednesday.

James Valentine public memorial as it happened: Influential ABC broadcaster farewelled at Sydney Town Hall

Follow along as the beloved ABC broadcaster, musician and author is farewelled at Sydney Town Hall.

  • Chris Hook, Kayla Olaya and Garry Maddox
Director Adrian Chiarella with Joe Bird, who stars in Leviticus.

‘Did homophobia become OK again?’ Backlash inspires breakthrough horror film

Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus, which is screening in competition at Sydney Film Festival, is about the traumas of gay conversion therapy.

  • Garry Maddox