Plus, Lucy Ellman finishes a sentence in Ducks, Newburyport.

Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph on the beginnings of the streaming game-changer, ABC's Life Osman Faruqi weighs in on Kanye West's new gospel album, and Awaye!'s Daniel Browning looks back at David Bowie's Let's Dance video.

After losing her family home in the Black Saturday bushfires, Alice Bishop was compelled to write about the many ways people were impacted by the event.

French-Israeli drama Synonyms won the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Jason speaks to director Nadav Lapid about his work in which a young Israeli man travels to Paris to flee his nationality. Lauren checks out Modern Love, an anthology series based on The New York Times beloved column that sees the rom-com genre firmly placing itself in the TV landscape, film curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales talks about their latest series, and Jason reviews Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory.

Artist Wendy Sharpe is about to travel to Ethiopia to undertake a residency with a difference and British artist Bruce Monro lights up Darwin.

The 1982 Australian musical film Starstruck has been developed into a new stage production that will premiere at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, at Adelaide's OzAsia Festival, we encounter two productions that use the culinary arts to help tell their stories — Kuro Tanino's The Dark Master and Abhishek Thapar's Surpassing the Beeline, Suzy Wrong reviews the Sydney Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta co-production of White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King, and writer and comedian Kathy Lette is taking her live stand-up show Girls' Night Out on the road.

Plus, Christos joins The Pillars' author Peter Polites on sexuality and class, and Garth Nix's Angel Mage.

We get distracted by the return of Oscar Isaac/nerd out about the final trailer for the new Star Wars movie with Lawrence Leung, look at the new Prince Harry and Meghan Markle documentary with our Sussex correspondent Santilla Chingaipe, and Out Magazine's Raquel Willis on who’s shifting the culture in music, arts and entertainment.

Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his latest film It Must Be Heaven, an elegant, inventive work and the opening night film at the Palestinian Film Festival. Lauren and Jason on the stunning season finale of HBO's grand melodrama Succession. A lookback at the last decade in film with the editors of the Senses of Cinema film journal, and a review of Gurinder Chadha's coming of age film Blinded by the Light.

Plus critic Tai Snaith reviews the Melbourne exhibition Hope Dies Last and we revisit the work of Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton.