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1 day ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
Hal and Harper is the kind of show that may just stay with you forever. Written and directed by Sundance darling Cooper Raiff — who also stars as the titular Hal, alongside Riverdale's Lili Reinhart as Harper — the series considers grief and the realities of parentified children in a way that's real, weird, desperately sad and quietly funny. If that wasn't enough, it feels like Mark Ruffalo was made to play their equal parts meek, sad and terrified dad.
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3 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
F1: The Movie was always going to struggle to set itself apart from the runaway hit Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive. What: A middle-aged driver's improbable comeback to the elite world of F1 racing.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
The idea for Lauren Roberts' debut novel came to her when she was just 18 years old. So she did what any teenager with access to a phone would do next: start a live stream to share her idea with BookTok. "And [my followers] were like, 'We want to read it!' Telling me to add this trope and that trope," the US writer tells ABC Arts.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
Turns out it's a huge month for shows about estranged sisters living in vastly different worlds. It was just last week that Netflix came out with Sirens, a dark comedy drama about one downtrodden woman's desperate attempt to free her younger sibling from the clutches of a culty socialite and a life of luxury.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
After premiering to critical and audience acclaim in 2017, The Handmaid's Tale — the televisual adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic — became the first streaming series to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama. Now on the eve of the show's conclusion, it's clear the series has had a broader impact than simply making TV history.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Hanan Dervisevic |Maddy Morwood |Yasmin Jeffery
Three hosts will be taking us through this year’s grand finale. Hazel Brugger is an award-winning Swiss-American stand-up comedian, slam poet and presenter. She’s known for her quick wit, which will make her an asset on the presenter’s panel. Sandra Struder is a Swiss singer who is no stranger to the Eurovision stage — she competed in the Contest in 1991 placing fifth. If anyone knows what it takes to compete in this competition, it’s her.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
Welcome to ICYMI, where we recap the pop culture and entertainment news you might have missed over the past week. Anticipation for Together — the new body horror starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie — has been steadily building since Neon bought it for an eye-watering $US17 million ($26.5 million) at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
It's been 10 years since Australia rocked up at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with Guy Sebastian singing the achingly safe and respectable 'Tonight Again' as a wildcard entry. And despite yearly questions of "why is Australia in Eurovision?", we're still going.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
Married couple and co-authors Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta have written a new book, and it couldn't be more different from their first. Their 2021 debut was a fake-dating romance starring a straight couple, which was dubbed "the perfect summer read" by Vogue. Their latest offering, Feast While You Can, is a gay horror-romance packed with visceral jump scares.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yasmin Jeffery
International bestselling writer Isabel Allende is late to our interview, but only by a few minutes. When the 82-year-old Chilean-American novelist appears on the video call, she has her phone to her ear and is thanking her son for helping her figure out the meeting pin. The world's most widely read Spanish-language author — whose books have reportedly sold more than 80 million copies and been translated into 42 languages — proceeds to thank me for waiting.
