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Half-yearly report card: the best pop culture of 2023 (so far)
What you should have watched, listened to, read and clicked on in the first half of the year.
- by Robert Moran and Melanie Kembrey
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AI can do any many things, but can it replicate these drawings?
Drawing will always be present because it captures the vital creative impulse that links the eye, the mind and the hand.
- by John McDonald
This would be a truly bold move for the Fast and Furious franchise
Whenever a car chase scene begins, I let out a bored sigh so strong it blows my dogs across the room.
- by Deirdre Fidge
Keep the measurements, give me the dollops and drizzles
Data rules our lives, numbers and percentages. Every reason to preserve the guesstimates.
- by David Astle
A half-marathon? I would rather die than do that again
A hypothetical bad idea was suddenly transformed into an ongoing mistake. I’d joined a long-distance race.
- by James Colley
Succession’s Sarah Snook stars in first Australian film in five years
In Run Rabbit Run, the actor plays a divorced fertility doctor whose daughter Mia becomes obsessed with a white rabbit.
- by Garry Maddox
Pardon me? When machines deliver the wrong massage
The more we rely on technology, the greater the mishap ratio.
- by David Astle
Why Philip Guston’s work is still causing headaches for galleries
One of the truly great artists of the late 20th century, the artist managed to alienate friends and admirers with a single exhibition.
- by John McDonald
Horror, religion, cannibalism: The story behind Barack Obama’s favourite new artist
Musician Ethel Cain brings her haunted vision of America to Vivid and RISING.
- by Brodie Lancaster
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Review
Arnie is back in his first-ever TV role - and little has changed
Arnold Schwarzenegger remains completely on-brand in his TV debut as the star of this comedy spy caper.
- by Kylie Northover
Forget the throbbing euphemisms: these romantic leads go to therapy
Bestselling romance author Emily Henry, whose books have sold more than 2.4 million copies, hadn’t read any romance novels before she wrote one herself.
- by Kylie Northover