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The Age: The Melbourne woman who helped Indian cinema conquer Australia

VicScreen: WHAT BOLLYWOOD STARS LOVE ABOUT MELBOURNE

MIFF: Thwarted Ambitions: Sumitra Peries’s The Girls and Young Womanhood in a Changing Sri Lanka - Miff 2025

ABC (Interviewed): How to raise bilingual children in Australia, where English reigns supreme

ACMI: Osheen Siva draws cosmic creations from ancestral echoes

ABC: From Slumdog Millionaire to 127 Hours, we sit down with composer A.R. Rahman

The Saturday Paper: S. Shakthidharan’s The Wrong Gods

ABC: Award-winning Sri Lankan play “Counting and Cracking” is so epic it may never be staged in Australia again

Interview with Letterboxd

The Age: Lady Gaga Melbourne review; Megastar brings screaming good time to Marvel Stadium with The Mayhem Ball

The Age: Kesha The Tits Out Tour at John Cain Arena

The Age: G Flip at Margaret Court Arena

The Age: Yungblud review

The Age - Melbourne review wrap: Dominic Fike at Sidney Myer Music Bowl

Radio: Triple R Primal Screen

The Age: Sam Fender at Sidney Myer Music Bowl

“The Seductive Poetry of Everyday Life”: Sophie Somerville on Fwends - MIFF 2025

Podcasts: Conversation with Director Paula Whetu Jones on The Doctors Wife, Review of James Gunn's Superman, Review of A Nice Indian Boy, Primal Screen — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Podcasts: Cinema Reborn, The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Dying for Sex, Primal Screen — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

SMH: Dramas, thrillers, romcoms? None of them beat this movie genre

The Age: Crisis Actor at Arts House Melbourne: Which actor makes the ‘worthiest’ victim? In this show, you get to choose

Australian Book Review What’s Yours: Keziah Warner’s play about everyday adulting' by Vyshnavee Wijekumar

The Age: 25 years on, Killing Heidi gives fans licence to step back into younger selves

The Age: Suki Waterhouse is a ‘model, actress, whatever’. And in her first Australian gig, her charisma is undeniable

Triple R: The Salt Path

The Age: Kehlani Review

Primal Screen: Oscars, Dahomey and The Seed of the Sacred Fig

At Asia TOPA Aunties are superior. | Asia TOPA

Triple R: The Last Showgirl

The Age: Remi Wolf

The Age: Bryan Adams is living – and giving – the best days of his life

The Age: Leon Bridges

The Saturday Paper: Unfinished Business

The Age: Music royalty Dionne Warwick performs One The Age: Last Time at Hamer Hall

The Age: Bluey, tea and narcissist exes: This was a gig with a difference

SMH: The 10 best albums from the last 25 years

The Age: Slick, mature, energetic: The Kid Laroi brings emotion and pyrotechnics to Melbourne

The Age: With urgency, warmth and seduction, St. Vincent receives her Melbourne disciples

Triple R: Review of Gladiator 2

Interview with Melbourne International Film Festival

ABC: The Diplomat was a smash-hit in its first season. We tell you all you need to know before the second

The Age: Belinda Carlisle is finally back in Melbourne – and the wait was worth it

ABC: The unexpected challenges of having my mum move in to help with our baby

The Age: Last Dinosaurs gig

Triple R Breakfasters – 1 August 2024, Breakfasters — Triple R Film Review Fancy Dance

The Age: ‘White-saviour’ Hollywood portrayed Asians through a coloniser’s lens. This Melbourne artist shows how ridiculous that was

The Saturday Paper Book review: Growing Up Indian in Australia by Aarti Betigeri

The Age: Iniko Review

The Age: OneFour music review

The Age: Macklemore leads chant for Palestine at Melbourne show

The Saturday Paper: Book Review of Saraid De Silva’s Amma is a warm, unflinching literary debut

The Age: Comedy Festival Reviews of Jenny Tian

The Age: Comedy Festival Reviews for Joel Kim Booster and Succulent Comedy Showcase

The Age: Jonas Brothers Concert Review

The Saturday Paper: Zahra Newman explores identity in Malthouse’s The Hate Race

What struggling to conceive taught me about living with uncertainty - ABC Everyday

The Age: Greentea Peng Review

Triple R: All of Us Strangers

The Age: Louis Tomlinson lacks direction in lacklustre Melbourne gig

Junkee: A New Podcast Reveals The Truth About Biloela, Straight From Priya And Nades

The Age: Sam Smith sheds all expectations in spectacular Halloween show

The Age: Melbourne Fringe Review of Brolga

The Age: Melbourne Fringe Review of Tom Ballard

The Age: Melbourne Fringe Review of Guài and Joy Machine

Saturday Paper Book Review: Yen-Rong Wong - Me, Her, Us

ABC News: ‘He made us proud of our identity': How one teacher founded an epic 50-year legacy of Indian dance

Triple R Review: Past Lives

Timeout Melbourne MIFF Review: Shayda

The Age: Noah Cyrus and 070 Shake

Triple R: Barbie

Art Review: Mithu Sen’s Subversion of the Violent Artifices of Language

Triple R Review: Joy Ride

Timeout Melbourne Review: Is God Is at Melbourne Theatre Company ★★★★

The Age: Michael Buble returns to Melbourne in a show that may just be his crooning glory

Club Critique - Emerging Writers' Festival

TimeOut Melbourne Review: Loaded at Malthouse Theatre ★★★

Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte is a rebel royal just like Meghan and Diana

The Age: Ruel 4th Wall Tour

The Age: ‘He kissed my boyfriend on the mouth’: The comedy festival’s best moments

The Age: Comedy Festival has hit the halfway mark – but for many, things are just getting started

The Age: The comedy festival has kicked off – here’s a look at the opening weekend

The Age: Here’s some comedy to catch up on over the long weekend

The Saturday Paper: Review of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Bernhardt / Hamlet

Junkee: These 13 TikTok Comedians Deserve Your Prompt Attention

The Age: Ed Sheeran pays tribute to Shane Warne and Michael Gudinski at record-breaking MCG show

The Age: After days of hype, Harry Styles performed to an enthusiastic Melbourne crowd. Was it worth the wait?

TimeOut Melbourne Review: Nosferatu at Malthouse Theatre ★★★

Triple R Review: Aftersun

The Saturday Paper: Review of Saman Shad’s debut novel ‘The Matchmaker’

Junkee: ‘Velma': Why Does Everyone Hate The Mindy Kaling Reboot?

The Age: The Melbourne woman who helped Indian cinema conquer Australia

Triple R Breakfasters: The Fabelmans Review

Junkee: Wednesday' And The Enduring Appeal Of The 'Anti-Cool Girl'

SmartArts: Favourite art experiences from 2022

South Asian Today: From the Jungle to the Sea: S. Shakthidharan on telling community stories

Triple R Primal Screen: Review of ‘Bones and All’

The Saturday Paper: Shankari Chandran’s Song of the Sun God

The Age: Melbourne Fringe Karma Dance, Janet’s Vagrant Love and Dynasty: Drag & Dumplings

The Age: Melbourne Fringe ‘Sunanda Loves Britney’

The Age: Melbourne Fringe ‘Saltbush’

Triple R: Review of Bodies Bodies Bodies

The Saturday Paper: Review of Sarah Malik’s Desi Girl

TRIPLE R: Flux Gourmet Review

Junkee: Netflix’s ‘Wedding Season’ Revives The Rom-Com With A South Asian Twist

SMH: Never Have I Ever S3

3RRRFM Primal Screen: Official Competition and Dreaming Walls

3RRRFM: Review of Ali & Ava

The Age: 2022 Green Room Awards Recipients

The Saturday Paper: Writer, theatre-maker and comedian Vidya Rajan

3RRRFM: Thor Love and Thunder

3RRRFM: ‘The Drover’s Wife: Legend of Molly Johnson’

3RRRFM: Review ‘All My Friends Hate Me’

Junkee: Can Bridgerton Really Represent South Asian Women In A World Without Colourism Or Colonisation?

South Asian Today: The stage is set: Stories from the Thamizh diaspora

Triple R Primal Screen: Reviewing River and Turning Red

The Big Issue: Wash My Soul in the River Flow

3RRRFM: Review of ‘Mogul Mowgli’

Malthouse Theatre: A Review of Production ‘Stay Woke’

The Monthly (PDF Version): Review of Here Out West Film

The Monthly: Review of Here Out West Film

3RRRFM: Review of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

3RRRFM: Review of Belfast

3RRRFM: Film Review of Zola

3RRRFM: Review of James Bonds' 'No Time to Die'

Refinery29 Interview: Meet The Women Who Are Unapologetically Making Their Mark On Australia's Film Industry

Footscray Community Arts New Brand

Kill Your Darlings: How The L Word Continues to Celebrate Queer Identity

Interview ABC radio: The New Wiggle

Refinery29 Comments: What Tsehay Hawkins making Wiggles history means

The Saturday Paper: Family ties crucial to coping with the pandemic

STS Podcast Ep #2: Bach Mates

STS Podcast Ep #1: The Kids Will Be Alright

MIFF Blog: Podcast Episode The Kids Will Be Alright

MIFF Blog: Souad 4 Ways

MIFF Blog: Building the Palazzo: First-time filmmaker tackles Melbourne icon’s story

ArtsHub: Is art and cultural history still relevant?

ArtsHub (PDF Link): Is art and cultural history still relevant to the present?

Refinery29: Miscarriage Feels Different for South Asian Women

Netflix ANZ Twitter Thread for Never Have I Ever Season 2

MIFF 2021 Critics Campus

ABC Everyday: How Peter followed in the footsteps of his refugee parents

FCAC Radio Podcast: Jinghua Qian on Writing, eroticism and digital sex

The Age: How cultural comedy is making us laugh out louder

SMH: Artists step further outside the box, leaving walls behind

ABC Life: How to Raise Your Kids to Embrace their Culture

ArtsHub: Archibald Prize inspires new wave of contemporary ‘alternative portrait’ artists

SAARI Collective: Netflix’s Baby-Sitters Club Reboot is the wholesome nostalgia we need right now

FCAC Radio Podcast: Storytelling with Filmmaker Santilla Chingaipe

SBS: What grief taught me about my migrant father

ArtsHub: The real cost of defunding the ABC

The Age: Coronavirus reset 'a chance to make arts more diverse'

Huffington Post: Mindy Kaling’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ Acknowledges The Grief I’ve Felt Since Losing My Dad

FCAC Radio Podcast: Interview with Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh, Artistic Director of the Emerging Writers Festival

Creative Victoria: Promoting Your Art with Social Media (2020)

MIFF Blog: Artist, Activist and Antagonist: The Misrepresentation of Mathangi Arulpragasam

HRAFF Short Film Filmmakers Interviews (2016)

HRAFF 10th Anniversary Interview (2017)