Culture

Director Ben Wheatley is too faithful to J. G. Ballard’s simplistic prose in High-Rise, missing the opportunity to refine its class politics for the present day.

Marta Dusseldorp, one of the best-known faces on Australian television, talks about history, loss and her highly successful family.

The duo behind a production that explores Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.

A collaboration between singer-songwriters Neko Case, k. d. lang and Laura Veirs to record some covers has instead produced an original album of consummate craft.

Actress Jacki Weaver had to wait until her 60s for worldwide acclaim. Now, the offers from Hollywood keep flooding in.

American writer A.M. Homes on family, awakenings and human behaviour.

Mamet’s monster of a play is given a mousy rendition, save for its star.

As a beloved propagandist of North Korea’s dictatorship, poet Jang Jin-sung lived to serve his leader. Then the bubble burst.

A man more becoming of another era ignites the curiosity of his suburban neighbour.

When a man known for vulgar humour combines with a beautiful mind, the resulting TV is no joke.