Hans Zimmer performs at Rod Laver Arena,April 29,2025.

Hans Zimmer’s music is in all your favourite films – but off screen,something was missing

Seeing Hans Zimmer’s music performed live is a little like seeing the MSO if they were all wearing leather and performing in an arena with drunk male hecklers.

  • Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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Dale Frank in a scene from Nobody’s Sweetie.

A tiny budget and a whole lot of interruptions? If anything,they made this documentary better

Dale Frank was once considered one of art’s “bad boys”. A new documentary offers an intimate look behind the scenes.

  • Sandra Hall
A work by Sidney Nolan inspired by the Ravensbrück women’s camp.

These works by Sidney Nolan have never been displayed. Now they’re heading to Melbourne

In 1962,the artist visited Auschwitz. The paintings he created afterwards have been brought together in a new exhibition.

  • Will Cox
Blak Woman’s Healing. Yirramboi.

Your guide to fab (and budget-friendly) events in Melbourne in May

From dance and singing to spectacular exhibitions,these free events promise loads of fun.

  • Sonia Nair
Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett.

Spectacular adults-only cabaret comes with an air of debauchery and much celebration

Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett combines circus,sideshow,bizarre burlesque and song to help you shake off the world’s woes.

  • Cameron Woodhead,Andrew McClelland andTony Way

The best heckles,riskiest jokes and strangest moments from this year’s comedy festival

After a month packed with shows,our reviewers have come together to pick out the best (and most memorable) moments from this year’s comedy festival.

  • Donna Demaio,Guy Webster,Hannah Francis,Lefa Singleton Norton,Mikey Cahill,Sonia Nair,Tyson Wray andVyshnavee Wijekumar
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Kit Connor in Warfare.

Iraq war film feels like the real thing … until it doesn’t

Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza base Warfare on an incident that involved a Navy SEAL platoon in 2006.

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 Richard Roxburgh as journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

Richard Roxburgh’s nervy intensity works in a film about despair in an Egyptian prison

The Rake star plays jailed journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

  • Sandra Hall
Color Theories is on at Max Watt’s until April 20.

The good,the weird and the unmissable from this festival’s final week

From absurdist scribbling in a notebook to a show that digs into the dark recesses of the internet,and ChatGPT acting as matchmaker,here are our latest reviews.

  • Cher Tan,Donna Demaio,Hannah Francis,John Bailey,Lefa Singleton Norton,Sonia Nair,Tyson Wray,Vyshnavee Wijekumar andNell Geraets
Mahalia Barnes

What made Mahalia Barnes say yes to Jesus Christ Superstar

Barnes has been surrounded by music her whole life,but it took a very particular set of circumstances for her to take on her first musical.

  • Elizabeth Flux