Stephen A. Russell

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Photograph: Pia Johnson PreviousNext /4 Photograph: Pia Johnson PreviousNext /4 Photograph: Pia Johnson PreviousNext /4 Photograph: Pia Johnson PreviousNext /4 Review 3 out of 5 stars Beware the feathered menace from the skies as Paula Arundell mightily tackles Daphne du Maurier’s spooky story Theatre, Drama Malthouse Theatre, Southbank Until 7 June 2025 Recommended Thursday 22 May 2025 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Buy ticket Advertising Time Out says “The wind changed overnight,...

1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Stephen A. Russell

Arthur Conan Doyle’s witheringly insistent detective Sherlock Holmes has worn many faces since he first appeared in the author’s 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet. The 221B Baker Street-based sleuth was first depicted on screen by an unknown actor in Arthur Marvin’s 30-second silent film Sherlock Holmes Baffled at the turn of the 20th century. Danish actor Viggo Larsen stepped into the role a few years later for the Nordisk Film Company.

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NewsFrom incel aliens to a Broadway tragedy, this year’s jacked SFF program has it allWritten by Stephen A RussellContributorWednesday 7 May 2025FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppPhotograph: Supplied/SFF | 'Together'AdvertisingCalling all cinephiles: the Sydney Film Festival just launched a huge program for 2025, and a galaxy of engrossing screen stories is set to take over cinemas across the city.

1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Stephen A. Russell

Music and the movies have always been intertwined, from the days of in-theatre piano players accompanying silent films to purpose-written scores and on. With the glittering mayhem of , let’s whizz through a few melodious highlights of our . It’s impossible to do justice to legendary musician, singer-songwriter extraordinaire, gifted producer and impeccably sexy performer Prince in a pithy paragraph. The Minneapolis-born legend transcends words and reshaped musical history in his own slinky image.

2 months ago | sbs.com.au | Stephen A. Russell

Between shooting the first two episodes of The Secret DNA of Us – a world-first show in which the residents of four Australian towns and suburbs are mass DNA-tested to find out more about where their family comes from – host Marc Fennell recorded his upcoming episode of “It’s hard for me to untangle those experiences, because they are so related,” host Fennell says of exploring the unexpected twist and turns of his Indian-Irish background while surprising a raft of fellow Australians with...