Culture

Hugo Weaving’s acting career has brought him international acclaim, but his latest film – an adaptation of Paul Kelly’s song “How to Make Gravy” – reflects his devotion to Australian stories.

Ma grabs hold of the dashboard. Her fingers are white with wanting to see that thing on the footpath, but she’s not driving and it’s hard to stop a car you’re not driving. Ma likes to drive. When Jonah has soccer after school and it’s just us, she puts the windows down and the music up and sometimes we sing together and go over the speed limit and her hair flies wild and she tells me things like how she once wanted to be an astronaut. I don’t believe her, because you have to fly to the moon for that and who would look after us then?

This year’s Marrakech International Film Festival – a showcase for new filmmakers from around the globe – featured the strongest program yet.

This year’s spectacular Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA foregrounds indigenous artists from around the globe.

After a decade-long wait, the latest instalment of the Dragon Age franchise answers a lot of questions – maybe even too many – about this rich and complex world.

Anna couldn’t say what it was like being one of two sisters who were famous for a time as the most beautiful girls anyone had seen. It was like expecting a mountain to tell you of its mountain-ness or a tree of its treeness. It just was, their beauty, a fact that permeated the air, real, necessary, enveloping.

Amyl and the Sniffers’ new album, Cartoon Darkness, sees a band growing into its promise as it grapples with success.

A blockbuster retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW tells little-known stories about one of the most famous surrealist painters, René Magritte.

A giant of classical music, violinist Joshua Bell embraces everything from celebrity collaborations to working with disadvantaged youth in New York schools.

Almost a decade after its Broadway premiere, a slick production of the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen lays bare its flaws.