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The Academy Award nominations were announced this week. The Oscars will be held on Monday 11 March Australian time. The nominees are: Best picture "American Fiction" "Anatomy of a Fall" "Barbie" "The Holdovers" "Killers of the Flower Moon" "Maestro" "Oppenheimer" "Past Lives" "Poor Things"...

Hollywood actors have gone on strike as of 14 July 2023, joining the Writers Guild, who have been on strike since 2 May. It is the first time since 1960 that writers and actors have been on strike jointly. One of the big issues in the strike is a Disney proposal involving AI that includes...

As people I know have now suffered through Covid multiple times, I’m wondering how many others have somehow managed to avoid it for three years now. I’ve been quite miraculous, being in one of the world’s hotspots in March 2020. A week before Christmas 2021 I was in a dingy bar with my...

The second largest democracy in the Americas is going to the polls, although the incumbent certainly doesn't seem like he wishes it was. The conviction of Lula, the historically popular Workers' Party President from 2002 to 2010, ruled him out of the 2018 election and allowed Bolsonaro's path...

France's election campaign is well under way, with the first round election just two weeks away. Currently it looks like a near certainty that Macron will be the first President to win a second term since Jacques Chirac, but there are still some points of interest in the election - as the...

At the moment, with little hope for any further survivors to be pulled from the rubble, it appears around 160 people may have died following the collapse of a twelve-storey building in Miami. We know that in 2018 significant structural damage was identified in the building, with a recommendation...

The pre-show is on but I didn't see a thread. It does feel like this is a show that should be solid, but nothing stands out on the card as a sure thing classic match. The card: Kenny Omega (c) vs Orange Cassidy vs Pac (AEW World Championship) Hikaru Shida (c) vs Dr Britt Baker DMD (AEW Women's...

I've been thinking of creating a thread on this topic for a little while after numerous news stories kept concerning me about the direction in which film is heading. I'm a great lover of film, who pre-Covid would attend the cinema two or three times a week, and who loves third quarter 20th...

Delayed twice, the Bolivian election is being held today. Long term incumbent President Evo Morales won last year's election, which were found in an investigation by the Organization of American States to have found significant irregularities (this report itself was later found to be deeply...

The Brazilian democratic system has had a turbulent couple of years, with the impeachment of Dilma, the installation of Temer and the conviction of Lula. Their presidential election, with its first round of voting on Sunday, is causing a great deal of international attention (and I'm kind of...

Aretha Franklin, one of the greatest voices ever recorded to music, has passed away at the age of 76. There is no doubt she is one of the giants, with multiple classics, and through her music an important figure in the civil rights and feminist movements. Rest in peace, Aretha. Respect, always.

For some reason not as loved as most of the other action franchises that are churning through installments, the Mission: Impossible movies haven't really had a backwards step since the second one. The latest is getting all sorts of hype, with some reviews declaring it one of the best action...

Because thread titles here need to make a contentious statement. An ongoing train dispute in Sydney has been relieved with the Fair Work Commission ordering the RTBU to cease its industrial actions, including a planned strike on Monday, and a current refusal to work overtime. While I think...

I was begrudgingly intrigued by the premise. While I never got into The OC (or the multitude of shows similar to it) which Riverdale was getting compared to, the fact that it: a) was also being compared to Twin Peaks; and b) featured the characters from the Archie Comics sounded just batshit...

Surprised there wasn't already a thread about this as I've seen a lot of articles online discussing the show as a water cooler point. Yet nobody I've spoken to has seen it. The premise is that a blind girl goes missing, only to return seven years later with her sight restored. Interesting...

Look, this isn't particularly hard hitting, but given the great majority of people on this board are outside NSW you likely wouldn't have seen the State Government's "Stoner Sloth" commercials to dissuade people from using marijuana. I know these seem like a joke, but gloriously they are not.

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Continuing the bad run for the Coalition parties at the moment, the NT Government has pretty well fallen into chaos: After having been elected into government in 2012, the CLP rolled their leader while he was overseas in early 2013. Then last night at 1am, it was announced the current Chief...