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Review: Josh Pyke, Love Lies Theatre Tour, Forum Theatre, Melbourne

Beardy singer-songwriter Josh Pyke doesn't look especially theatrical, but in Melbourne, he and his multi-talented band wove a hypnotic kind of onstage magic.

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The Beatles Appear In Mad Men For A Measly $250K

The most recent episode of the hit retro series finally cracked film and TV's hardest nut: getting the rights to a real Beatles song. All it took was a cool $250,000.

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Ben Mendelsohn Pops Up In The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan, Bale, Caine, Freeman, Gordon-Levitt, Hathaway, Neeson, Oldman, Hardy... Mendelsohn? Looks like it.

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Review: Randling

The (mostly) usual suspects come out and make nice for Denton's triumphant return to the lightest of entertainment: wordplay gameshow Randling.

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Don Draper gets down with da yoof by listening to the Beatles. Image: AMC

The Beatles Appear In Mad Men For A Measly $250K

The most recent episode of the hit retro series finally cracked film and TV’s hardest nut: getting the rights to a real Beatles song. All it took was a cool $250,000.

Ben and Bane consider their anonymity in The Dark Knight Rises trailer.

Ben Mendelsohn Pops Up In The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan, Bale, Caine, Freeman, Gordon-Levitt, Hathaway, Neeson, Oldman, Hardy… Mendelsohn? Looks like it.

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Nostalgia Triumphs At The Oscars

Movies about the redemptive power of movies win all the movie awards. Not to get nostalgic, but this year’s Academy Awards could’ve learnt a lesson from Woody Allen.

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We’re Taking The Australian Women Writers Challenge

When was the last time you read a book written by an Australian woman? We explain why this year, we’re promising to read – and review – more.

Reviews

Josh Pyke flashes his placky whites.

Review: Josh Pyke, Love Lies Theatre Tour, Forum Theatre, Melbourne

Beardy singer-songwriter Josh Pyke doesn’t look especially theatrical, but in Melbourne, he and his multi-talented band wove a hypnotic kind of onstage magic.

Randling

Review: Randling

The (mostly) usual suspects come out and make nice for Denton’s triumphant return to the lightest of entertainment: wordplay gameshow Randling.

Sam Simmons: comedy is serious business.

Review: Sam Simmons – About The Weather

About The Weather pits Sam Simmons’ manic idiot savant character against routine, unrequited love, and self-assembled furniture.

It's part of the gambler's code never to do up one's bow tie.

Review: Tim FitzHigham – Gambler

Wanna bet? Tim FitzHigham does. But only if it involves recreating the bizarre historical wagers of English aristocracy on video.

Features

The Enthusiast Radio Hour 31012012

The Enthusiast Radio Hour Podcast – 31 January 2012

In this summer season’s final podcast: Bueller sells cars, Franzen hates e-books, the Orwellian Prize, the best TV of 2012, how future technologies are coming along, and we chat to comedian Kate McLennan.

A Sweder's Impression of how this website may look in 2012… and beyond!

The Future Of Enthusiasm

In a Darwinian media climate, how can The Enthusiast adapt and survive? To find out, we instituted a Reader Survey – and here’s how we plan to act on our readers’ suggestions.

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The Enthusiast Radio Hour Podcast – 24 January 2012

In our penultimate week, we talk Julian Assange’s TV show, karaoke wars, flag-waving racists, faltering music fests, surprisingly alive celebs, and chat to Shadow Electric outdoor cinema programmer Jean Lizza.

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The Enthusiast Radio Hour Podcast – 17 January 2012

This week we discuss SOPA, Golden Globes, Hilltop Hoods’ US signing, Coke adding more names, the Plausible Family Casting game, and the most promising books of 2012 with contributor Andrew Doyle.

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Columns

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The Tough Question: How Do You Name Instrumental Songs, Joe Satriani?

What makes ‘Rockit’ different from ‘Take Five’ or ‘Misirlou’? How do the titles reflect the music? How, guitar legend Joe Satriani, do you name a song with no lyrics?

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The Best Movies On TV This Week – 4 March 2012

So many interesting movies are on free-to-air TV that you can just cancel your streams and downloads and throw away your DVD player! Well, maybe not. But it is a great week for movies on TV.

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Ministry of Listicles: Top 5 Julia Gillard Power Jackets

She came, she saw, she conquered Kevin Rudd… twice. Despite her curious unpopularity with the Australian public, Julia Gillard knows the semiotic power of jackets. We’ve picked five easy pieces.

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What’s New In Pew Pew Pew: Self-Guided Bullets

You’ve heard of guided missiles, right? Well, no more tiresome launching from fighter jets, submarines or frigates! US government researchers have created a miniature version for your very own gun.

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