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Movies
How Caitlin Moran flipped the script on teenage heroines
When it came to turning her memoir into a movie, the award-winning British journalist drew up a list of everything she hadn't seen in female coming-of-age films.
- by Lenny Ann Low
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Best of the week: What to see, hear and do from October 25 to 31
From Stars Wars at the drive-in to the return of the Brandenburg Orchestra and a spooky Halloween at Luna Park, we have your week in Sydney covered.
- by Nicole Elphick
Good Weekend
How Helen Reddy sang to me – even as a 12-year-old boy
Memories came flooding back as I watched the enjoyable, if predictable, biopic of the Australian superstar, 'I Am Woman'. But its feminist rhetoric jarred me.
- by Mark Mordue
Sacha Baron Cohen
'The idea was always to intervene': Sacha Baron Cohen on that Rudy Giuliani scene
Cohen did not back down from the controversy that has surrounded his film before it even hit television screens.
- by Jenny Cooney
Review
Top five films: best of what's new in streaming
This week's choice of films new to a range of streaming services brings us passion, madness and even the living dead.
- by Jake Wilson
Film
Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep team up again in new musical
Big Little Lies co-stars join James Corden and Kerry Washington in new musical 'The Prom'.
Pop culture
'You will enjoy it more than Rudolph Giuliani': Borat returns to Bondi
Fourteen years after he last donned a mankini and visited our shores, Borat returned to Bondi Beach on Thursday. Sort of.
- by Robert Moran
Review
Liam Neeson may be an Honest Thief but he's a boring one, too
The latest vehicle for the brooding Irish star is not only formulaic, but unsatisfying even on an action-movie level.
- by Jake Wilson
Review
In a sign of changed times, the new Borat is far less funny than its predecessor
It's a mixed pleasure to renew acquaintance with Borat Sagdiyev, the grinning, outlandishly bigoted Kazahk journalist who remains the best-known alter ego of Sacha Baron Cohen.
- by Jake Wilson
Trailer: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
In a follow up to his 2006 film, Sacha Baron-Cohen returns to America with his Kazakhstani character Borat.