Culture

What to stream this week: (clockwise from top left): Every Year After; To a Land Unknown; Crimes of the Future; Best in Show; Alice and Steve and Swiping America.

Review

What to stream this week: An intentionally icky wrong-com, plus five more picks

Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement’s taboo-breaking comedy will leave you with more questions than answers.

by Jared Richards

From the creator of Twenty Twelve, Twenty Twenty Six is a new comedy based around the FIFA World Cup.

★★★

Review

Hugh Bonneville is at his best in this timely comedy (just don’t mention FIFA)

by Paul Kalina

Olympian Scott Miller tells his story in the ABC documentary Deep End: The Scott Miller Story.

Australian TV

‘I know I’m not a bad person’: Scott Miller opens up about drugs, prison and Alan Jones in ABC documentary

by Bridget McManus

American singer Oliver Tree has died aged 32.

Vale

‘Lovely soul’: US musician Oliver Tree killed in helicopter crash in Brazil

by Kayla Olaya

Hugh Laurie with the cast of House (from left) Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer and Lisa Edelstein.

Streaming

Hugh Laurie’s ‘slightly drunk’ tweets were right. House is still great TV

by Alistair Baldwin

Movies

Josh O'Connor, Emily Blunt and Eve Hewson talk aliens, conspiracy theories and truth with director Steven Spielberg. — 2:38

Interview

Steven Spielberg and the cast of Disclosure Day on the new sci-fi thriller

Josh O'Connor, Emily Blunt and Eve Hewson talk aliens, conspiracy theories and truth with director Steven Spielberg.

Sydney Film Festival

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.

by Garry Maddox

Tom Hanks

Does Toy Story still make you cry? Tom Hanks explains why

by Nell Geraets

Spoof movies were all the rage a few decades ago, but are they gearing up for a comeback?

Cinema

Spoof films were all but dead. Could Scary Movie resuscitate them?

by Nell Geraets

Vampires Suck is one of many spoof movies from the 2010s that fell seriously flat — 1:56

Review

Vampires Suck trailer

TV & radio

TV Guide

Review

What to stream this week: An intentionally icky wrong-com, plus five more picks

Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement’s taboo-breaking comedy will leave you with more questions than answers.

by Jared Richards

Australian TV

‘I know I’m not a bad person’: Scott Miller opens up about drugs, prison and Alan Jones in ABC documentary

The former Olympian was so stung by his last media appearance that he initially said no to the two-part series.

by Bridget McManus

Mabel Li (middle) as Aunt Vidala in The Testaments.

Exit Interview

Streaming

‘It’s a gun, and it’s five centimetres from my face’: Australian star on her terrifying TV moment

by Louise Rugendyke

The Strawbridge family transform a derelict French castle on Escape To The Chateau on 9Now. — 1:55

by Alistair Baldwin

by Annabel Ross

Review

Four star-frenzy: These new albums are so close to perfect

by John Shand, Annie Toller, Nick Buckley, Tom W Clarke and Robert Moran

Song Company perforrmers: Jessica O’Donoghue, Andrew O’Connor, Susannah Lawergren, Amy Moore, Hayden Barrington.

City life

‘Deeply disappointing’: Music company folds after more than four decades

by Kayla Olaya and Linda Morris

by Karl Quinn

Still electric: Pop icon Debbie Gibson is touring Australia for the first time in 37 years.

Take 7

Debbie Gibson on her turning point: ‘I felt like I was selling my soul’

by Robert Moran

by Cameron Woodhead and Tony Way

Kimberley Hodgson as the titular character in Mackenzie – the costumes evoke the whole early 2000s vibe.

Sydney live reviews

The shows around town everyone’s talking about this week

by John Shand, Chantal Nguyen, Harriet Cunningham, Peter McCallum, James Jennings, Kate Prendergast and Cindy Yin

Grace Carroll as Juliet and Joseph Caley as Romeo.

Melbourne live reviews

Catastrophe and drama collide in this lavish production

by Andrew Fuhrmann, Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way, Sonia Nair and Jessica Nicholas

by Kayla Olaya

Celebrity life

‘Surgical manipulation’: Tyra Banks sues Netflix over Next Top Model documentary

by Lauren Ironmonger

MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson), giving his all on his reality show Beast Games.

The Verdict

Against my will, I’ve come to love the charisma black hole that is MrBeast

by Nicole Elphick

Stage

Playwright Yve Blake takes us behind the scenes of her new musical.

Stage shows

‘What if my writing is terrible?’: The six-week sprint to opening night

by Yve Blake

Riley Lapham's ''fast-twitch'' workout for The Australian Ballet's Copland Dance Episodes. — 0:10

by John Bailey

Take 7

How playing a Greek drag queen changed everything for this actor

by Dee Jefferson

by Debbie Cuthbertson

Some of the many displays in the Barbie exhibition, which also includes the very first iteration of the doll.

City life

To Barbie and beyond: How a plastic doll became a design icon

by Kayla Olaya

Famed British artist David Hockney has died at the age of 88

Vale

David Hockney, artist renowned for his pool scenes, dies aged 88

by Jill Lawless

Tim Ross on his podcast @modernister nominated Sydney architect Michael Dysart as one of his all time heroes. Here he talks to Dysart about Urambi Village. — 0:31

by Pat Sheil

Our daily jargon has become more physically active than we are.

Opinion

WordPlay

Jump, pivot, circle back: Is this an office meeting or a basketball game?

by David Astle

Review

Hit or miss? Our take on the week’s biggest new book releases

by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, during which he acts as a counsellor to FBI agent Clarice Starling.

Literature

Life lessons from Hannibal Lecter? The 10 literary characters who give the best advice

by Claire Allfree

The Sydney Morning Herald

★★★

Exit Interview

Opinion