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– Alyx Gorman
We can't stop talking about...
Katy Perry's sanding down
Flop eras  
Katy Perry's sanding down
Off the back of last month's spectacularly tone deaf comeback single, Katy Perry's latest music video has run afoul of the Balearic islands, where the government allege she filmed on protected sand dunes without authorisation.
Wardrobe malfunction  
Also flopping hard? Fashion. Luxury's not looking great and on the high street things are even worse, as Andrea Cheong explains with her scathing, accurate garment reviews.
Paris compunction  
To say Emily in Paris season four is as thrilling as watching paint dry would be "a disservice to the many excellent shades of paint," says our critic Leila Latif.
Aunty disjunction  
Shaun Micallef made a big song and dance about moving on from the ABC to give younger talent a chance. Now he’s back with a show our critic gave one whole star.
Eat this
Peanut butter taste test
Peanut butter taste test
From a surprisingly ‘fluffy’ butter to another with ‘no dignity’, Nicholas Jordan and friends try 13 supermarket spreads, and learn that peanut butter is better when it's cheaper.
Extremely online
Extremely online
I want to get a piece of business out of the way before we start: Brat summer is done. Now we’re very demure and very sweetsie, like Julia Fox, low-key enbies, and those who know to google first. Not demure? Blake Lively, whose girl’s night out press tour and hair care line appear to be about an entirely different movie than the one her director thinks he made. 

In reads: pet parents are sharpening their claws and wringing their paws on the Cut. Australia B-girls need their peace. Young men online are (still) not okay and Kyle Chayka takes on the disaggregated internet. 

And in mesmerising videos: DVD butter.
The funniest things on the internet
Alison Willmore's tour de tabs
Alison Willmore's tour de tabs
The film critic's humour leans towards the cinematic and includes an ultra-specific subreddit she hopes never to appear on.
Top of the list
A show - pleasure finding  
In Slip, every orgasm takes our heroine into a parallel life with a new partner. A wild premise for an ambitious, fun and sometimes healing odyssey. On Binge.
In Slip, every orgasm takes our heroine into a parallel life with a new partner. A wild premise for an ambitious, fun and sometimes healing odyssey. On Binge.
A gameshow – spell binding  
Much to our critic's shock, NZ comedian Guy Montgomery’s new ABC show Spelling Bee – which does what it says on the tin – is nostalgic, maddening and an absolute d-e-l-i-g-h-t.
Much to our critic's shock, NZ comedian Guy Montgomery’s new ABC show Spelling Bee – which does what it says on the tin – is nostalgic, maddening and an absolute d-e-l-i-g-h-t.
A film - drama mining  
Blake Lively stars in the cinematic adaption of self-publishing's most controversial phenomenon since 50 Shades, with a chaotic press tour to match. But by foregrounding domestic violence right from the start, It Ends with Us unfolds with more maturity than its source material. In cinemas.
Blake Lively stars in the cinematic adaption of self-publishing's most controversial phenomenon since 50 Shades, with a chaotic press tour to match. But by foregrounding domestic violence right from the start, It Ends with Us unfolds with more maturity than its source material. In cinemas.
A doco - man grinding  
Justin Kurzel (Nitram, Snowtown) tapped Grinderman and Bad Seed musician Warren Ellis as the subject of his first documentary. With a cinematic eye, Kurzel follows Ellis at home, on the road, and finally to the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia. It's a light and shade portrait of a man who suits that mood. Ellis Park is showing now at MIFF.
Justin Kurzel (Nitram, Snowtown) tapped Grinderman and Bad Seed musician Warren Ellis as the subject of his first documentary. With a cinematic eye, Kurzel follows Ellis at home, on the road, and finally to the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia. It's a light and shade portrait of a man who suits that mood. Ellis Park is showing now at MIFF.
This week's weirdest story
Attack of the 7ft wife guy
Attack of the 7ft wife guy
This week Mark Zuckerberg revealed he is “bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife”.
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