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Dec 5, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Brodie Lancaster
Culture writer, author and co-host of See Also podcast December 6, 2024 — 2.07pm December 6, 2024 — 2.07pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every Monday morning, my phone lights up with information that determines if I’ve become a better person or not. “Weekly Report Available”, the message begins.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Brodie Lancaster |Kath Kenny |Anna Goldsworthy |Margaret Simons
The season’s best criminal drama, comedy capers, horror and true crime viewing, from ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ to ‘Longlegs’ While the cinema is cranking out air-conditioning, buttery popcorn and family-friendly Boxing Day movies, streaming services are brimming with less wholesome fare to fill your summer evenings (and days – no judgement). Very worth your time are these “whodunnems”: murder mysteries, comedy capers, true crime tales and horror movies.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Brodie Lancaster
Brodie Lancaster November 19, 2024 — 5.00pm November 19, 2024 — 5.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I’ve only once been tasked with hiring a new staff member, and I was in my mid-20s when it happened and unaware of all the ways a person might blossom or wither in a job.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Brodie Lancaster
‘I’m pretty boring and sort of straight-laced’ - how sobriety improved a musician’s workWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Something settles over you when you listen to Waxahatchee. It’s always been there, carried on the wind in Katie Crutchfield’s voice since her debut, American Weekend, in 2012.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Brodie Lancaster
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. **placeholder im - illustration coming**I’m not proud to admit this but over the years, during certain periods of nosiness, boredom or thirst for gossip, I’ve spent considerable time lurking in dark corners of the internet.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Brodie Lancaster
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ″Is there anywhere in this world a dream can’t take me?” Singing on a track named for the tiny bikinis she takes great joy in wearing on (and off) stage, Amy Taylor surveys her potential and zeroes in on her capacity to be, have and do more.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Brodie Lancaster |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
Writer-director Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature film is a fanciful account of the provocative Irish rap trio Kneecap, starring the band themselves In 2018, the death of Irish woman Margaret Keane made headlines when the Irish-language phrase her family planned to engrave on her epitaph was ruled, by a court of the Church of England, to be too political and provocative if an English translation weren’t displayed alongside it.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
intrepidtravel.com | Brodie Lancaster
Joan Didion famously travelled with a mohair throw and typewriter. A breathable cotton scarf and e-reader might be more practical. On the spectrum of packers, the uber-organised to-do-listers live at one end, and the chaos agents who grab their cleanest clothes on the way out the door are riiiight down at the other end.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Brodie Lancaster |Margaret Simons |Jonathan Green |Anthony Ham
Director Kevin Macdonald puts the British fashion designer’s public disgrace for anti-Semitic attacks front and centre when considering his iconic status Before sitting down to watch High & Low: John Galliano (in cinemas), I had been curious to see how film director Kevin Macdonald would approach the subject of the fashion designer’s 2011 conviction for hate crimes, which came after more than two decades of artistic brilliance. I didn’t need to wait for the answer.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Brodie Lancaster
I AM: CELINE DION ★★★(PG) 123 minutesWho is Celine Dion without her voice? It's a question the legendary Quebecois singer hopes we never need to answer, but a possibility that echoes throughout I Am: Celine Dion, the new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Irene Taylor. Taylor had been following Dion with her camera in the year before the singer was formally diagnosed with the rare neurological disease stiff person syndrome (SPS).
