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Kylie Northover

Kylie Northover

Kylie Northover is Spectrum Deputy Editor at The Age

Patricia Piccinini is revisiting her early works in a new exhibition.

The sculptor who brought us the blob-like babies is back – and the blobs have evolved

The acclaimed artist’s new commission for Science Gallery Melbourne is a call-back to her first hyperrealistic sculpture from 24 years ago.

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Javier Bardem is unnervingly brilliant as ex-prisoner Max Cady.

I’m sceptical of remakes, but this new version of Cape Fear is incredible – and terrifying

Part remake and part homage, this reimagining of the 1957 novel marries classic cinema with modern paranoia.

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Best TV shows this year (so far): Celia Pacquola in Dog Park; Madeleine Sami and Kate Box in Deadloch; Kylie Minogue in her Netflix documentary; Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; and Noah Wyle in The Pitt.

The best TV shows of the year (so far)

While big hitters such as The Pitt delivered, there have also been a few genuinely delightful surprises.

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The Birthday Party’s Phill Calvert (left), Mick Harvey, Nick Cave and Tracy Pew in the documentary Mutiny in Heaven.

Two rarely screened documentaries capture St Kilda’s sticky carpet heyday

Punkline and Last Drinks are love letters to the once-thriving music and punk scenes of the south-side suburb.

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Historian and podcaster Tristan Hughes.

If he could time travel? Tristan Hughes would go to Alexander the Great’s deathbed

The historian and podcaster on snakes, ancient history and how one Dire Straits song might have contributed to the end of a relationship.

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Tatiana Maslany stars in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed.

School mums, sex workers and Murray Bartlett: This funny whodunit has it all

Tatiana Maslany stars in this novel thriller, in which you’ll find yourself cheering the young male sex workers on.

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Author and journalist Kate Wild.

A masterclass in fiction and a vivid exploration of race: The Age Book of the Year winners

This year’s two winners have been announced at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

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Bestselling author Dervla McTiernan,

The real plot twist that changed Dervla McTiernan’s life

The bestselling author is a self-confessed hugger. She is so warm it’s difficult to believe she makes a living writing about ritualistic mutilation and kidnappings. It wasn’t always the case.

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Taron Egerton as Ben, who turns hunter, with Charlize Theron as Sasha, his prey.

This Netflix outback thriller can’t quite escape its own clichés

At least Taron Egerton is doing a decent Australian accent.

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From courtrooms to distant spacecraft: The Age Book of the Year shortlists announced

These are the books vying for this year’s The Age Book of the Year awards.

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