Mussolini:Son of the Century.

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Laura Dern in Enlightened,the HBO show she made with Mike White.

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The White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger in Sydney this week.

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Lynne McGranger has decided that after 33 years it’s time to step back from Home and Away.

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Virginia Triloi interviews Mad Max director George Miller where the film was set,outside Broken Hill.

‘They’re sick of doing the interview’:How Virginia Trioli gets famous faces to open up

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Michelle Williams (right) as Molly and Jenny Slate as Nikki in the comedy Dying for Sex.

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Father Brown (Mark Williams) is once again accompanied by Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson).

They are cosy and irrelevant,but that’s the point of twee British murder mysteries

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