By adhering to their values rather than to polls or populism, Andrew Hastie, Peter Malinauskas and Jacqui Lambie are showing ...

Early one morning in April 1984, a rower discovered the body of Stephen Docoza in Adelaide’s River Torrens. It had been submerged in the water for several days. It was already beginning to putrefy.

One lunchtime in August 1948, Peter Finch was doing Molière on the shop floor at O'Brien's glass factory in Sydney when Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh turned up. Olivier and Leigh were the king and ...

Kristen Stewart’s disorientating debut adapts a memoir of escaping a traumatic childhood, while Hlynur Pálmason delivers a tender portrait of a family coping with marriage breakdown ...

British novelist Gwendoline Riley continues her consideration of narcissists, from the most extreme to some forgivable ...

In September last year, Times journalist James Marriott posted an essay on his Substack announcing the “dawn of the post-literate society”, an unwelcome development that heralded no less than the “end ...

In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film derived from difficult personal experience New The father is a presiding ...

Christopher Nolan’s film is big on virtue and righteous violence, but fails the poem’s complexities of what the beleaguered warrior must inflict to be reunited with his wife New In Christopher Nolan’s ...

In a famous remark, Albert Einstein once asked whether the Moon continues to exist when nobody is looking. This startling comment stemmed from Einstein’s deep distrust of a branch of physics called ...

French artist Loris Gréaud’s film – viewed by a single person at a time – is an obsessive meditation on access, discovery and devotion New I’m sitting alone on a red bench outside a sandstone church ...

Philip Glass’s reputation precedes him – you’ve heard of him, even if you haven’t heard his music. He has been an eminent composer for more than 60 years, yet popular culture still lampoons his early ...