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Following the success of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo comes Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, a story spanning a decade from the mid-’80s.

There is one — and, sadly, only one — good scene in the new, gaudy, mega budget adaptation of F.

The iGeneration’s Star Trek crew are back on the USS enterprise, turning dials, gawking at screens, swiveling in chairs and squinting through a layer of lens flares in director J.

Could scenes from one of the biggest movie releases of the year and one of the most expensive literary adaptations of all time have been directed via Skype? Cinetology understands blockbuster filmmaker Baz Luhrmann last year called the shots from the (cyber) director’s chair for his highly anticipated adaptation of The Great Gatsby some 16,000 kilometers from where the action was taking place.

It’d be nice to think a film called This is 40 would offer some telling insights about a couple staring down the barrel of middle-age, but Judd Apatow’s attempt brings no hint of emotional maturity — or humour.

Mark O’Brien’s on a mission to finally lose his virginity in his late 30’s.

Nearly three decades after it first played to Melbourne audiences, Top Girls is back on the Melbourne Theatre Company stage.

The new TV series House Husbands was created by two writers who were intrigued by the increasing number of dads in their Sydney neighbourhoods during work hours.

The Sapphires is based (loosely) on the experiences of film writer Tony Briggs’ mother and three aunts, who formed an Indigenous Australian, all-girl soul-singing troupe of the same name in the 1960’s.

In 2004, a single punch rendered Daniella Borg a single mother.

Shame it requires fish to explain it, but works for us.

Chances are you have seen or heard about comedian Melissa McCarthy impersonating US President Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live.