We're talking about Netflix's latest binge-watch Dirty John, and a sweet new middle school comedy called Pen15. Plus, interviews from Paris ahead of the French Film Festival with star filmmakers Claire Denis and Louis Garrell, and reviews of Vox Lux and Stan and Ollie.

Photographer Paul Harmon showcases degradation of the Murray-Darling Basin in Watermarks at Casula Powerhouse, how to look at a painting and not get overwhelmed in galleries according to AGNSW's Justin Paton, New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana's video work In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) at Adelaide Festival, American whaler graffiti on rock art in the Pilbara, and misuse of the sacred Wandjina.

Eddie Izzard on workshopping his new show Wunderbar in French and German, we tour The Australian Ballet Centre's pointe shoe room with dancer Jade Wood and artistic coordinator Robyn Begg, we follow a post-apocalyptic theatre troupe who perform their hazy memories of The Simpsons in Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play, and Bangarra dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith tells us what's on his Top Shelf.

Award winning British crime writer Lynda La Plante on Widow's Revenge, The Bikes of Wrath documentary about retracing the Joad's trip across America in The Grapes of Wrath, and Australian writer Debra Adelaide's collection of short stories Zebra.

Feminist icon Clementine Ford shares why she's obsessed with Channel 9's Married At First Sight, Double J's Zan Rowe dishes on what went down at the Grammy Awards and The Guardian's Naaman Zhou asks whether Mario respects Luigi?

Julian Schnabel talks about directing Willem Dafoe in At Eternity's Gate. A discussion about the return of stoner comedy-drama High Maintenance as well as Sally 4 Ever, a new British comedy from Julia Davis. Jason Di Rosso reviews If Beale Street Could Talk and checks in with a critic on the ground at Berlin Film Festival.

Textile designer Martina Latimer brings her sewing machine into the studio, Ed visits a shearing shed with watercolourist Christine Porter, Claire Nichols takes us to Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley at AGWA, and a NSW museum inquiry wraps up in Arts News.

Live on stage from the foyer of the Heath Ledger Theatre, Michael Cathcart introduces you to some of the biggest local and international artists at this year's Perth Festival. We hear all about Lost and Found Opera's Ned Kelly, meet Greek director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou (The Great Tamer), discuss how much can change in 20 years with Perth Festival artist-in-residence Ursula Martinez (A Family Outing — 20 Years On, Free Admission), and learn about Black Swan's production of Our Town, which features non-professional actors from the local community in the cast.

American author Kristen Roupenian's book of short stories including the New Yorker story, Cat Woman, that went viral, Puberty Blues author Gabrielle Carey on Australian young adult writer Ivan Southall and debut novelists Bram Presser and Katherine Collette share their juvenilia.

Liam Neeson's inflammatory race-based comments (we wish we didn't have to do this), Dolly Doctor on Netflix's Sex Education, Eurovision-hopefuls Electric Fields and Spotify drops over $200 million on podcast production house Gimlet.