Inside a journalist’s nightmare story of detention
As I watched Richard Roxburgh’s understated performance, I wondered if the internal strength Peter Greste needed to survive was one of the traits that made him an award-winning war correspondent.
Film
Play the president? Hell yeah!
Viola Davis has won every major acting award, but how will she fare in an action film set at the G20?
The Count of Monte Cristo review – an absolute pleasure
This spirited adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel is almost three hours long yet passes in a heartbeat.
Asylum-seeker’s award-winning role as illegal delivery driver imitates real life
Abou Sangare’s prize-winning turn in Story of Souleymane is just one of the highlights of the 2025 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, the biggest showcase of Gallic movies outside France.
Small Things Like These review — trouble in the convent
Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s now-notorious Magdalene Laundries in this quietly powerful adaptation of Claire Keegan’s 2021 novella.
Actors playing The Beatles in Sam Mendes’ biopics unveiled
The Oscar-winning director will bring the Fab Four back to the big screen with The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, an ambitious multi-part biopic touted the first ‘binge-able theatrical experience’.
This five-star gift of a film made me weep
With incredible performances by Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Australia’s Jacob Elordi, this film had a profound effect on me. When it ended I needed to sit in the cinema for quite a while to gather myself.
Revolution of John and Yoko
Not just ‘another Beatles film’, a new documentary looks at John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and their post-Beatles life in America.
Epic fail? Interrogating cinema’s ancient history problem
Christopher Nolan is set to tackle Homer’s epic on the big screen but one academic says the film will only succeed if it adheres to one theme.
The one thing missing from Crocodile Dundee doco
While it deals with the famous knife scene, Love of an Icon fails to capture these important details of Paul Hogan’s personal life.
Believe the anti-hype. Disney’s Snow White really is that bad
Drama? Story? Character? Nope. These are, it seems, decadent tools of the oppressor. The new Snow White movie is a new low — and a crisis point for Disney.
Depardieu stands trial for alleged sexual assaults on film set
The French actor is facing charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France.
From Barbie to Bronte: Margot swaps Malibu for the moors
Australian superstar Margot Robbie has been spotted on the set of her latest movie, a new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.
Nicole Kidman brings Hollywood home with latest show
The Oscar winner’s lifelong mission has been realised with the release of her new show. Could her collaboration with powerhouse forces Liane Moriarty and Bruno Papandrea spark Australian TV’s own Big Little Lies?
Hollywood says this film is in the ‘dead zone’. Soderbergh doesn’t care
The Oscar winner made his name with films like Erin Brockovich and the Ocean’s trilogy – but now he’s gambling with a new spy drama.
Disney ruins its crown jewel – and reputation
Rachel Zegler is watery and ineffectual while Gal Gadot attempts to vamp it up in a sanctimonious reboot of Snow White that marks a new low. It opened on Thursday in Australia. Bring a sick bag.
The Return is worth watching for Fiennes and Binoche
The pair reunite for the first time since the 1996 Oscar winner The English Patient, in this thoughtful take on Homer’s The Odyssey.
Spy thriller Black Bag is Smooth Soderbergh
In the spirit of Mr and Mrs Smith, Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett are husband and wife secret agents in this well-directed film.
Disney’s hopes for new Snow White dwarfed by ‘woke’ backlash
The launch of a live-action remake of Snow White will be scaled down after its star Rachel Zegler’s criticism of the 1937 original and rows over the seven dwarfs.
Hungarian football legend Ferenc Puskas’ ‘miracle’ South Melbourne visit
You don’t have to know anything about football to enjoy Ange & The Boss, an inspirational doco about one of the little-told stories of Australian sport.
Sci-fi black comedy Mickey 17 an interstellar flop
Four-time Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo and Australia’s Toni Collette mush through two of the cheesiest roles imaginable.
Hard Truths shows what it’s like to be angry but hurting inside
British filmmaker Mike Leigh’s new movie about a woman caught between depression and rage has something to say about people who are secretly in pain.
This Oscar winner is a flawed but worthy film
I’m Still Here uses one upper middle-class family to explore one of the darkest chapters in Brazil’s history.
Oscars record falls – it’s four in one go
Anora director Sean Baker has become the first person to win four Oscars in the same year for the same film. Mikey Madison pulled off the biggest upset, taking best actress for her work on Anora.
‘Long live independent film’: Anora wins Best Picture
Sean Baker’s stripper tragicomedy, the scrappy Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, has waltzed off with Best Picture, winning a total of five awards tonight — Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay for Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.
Final days: Gene Hackman was healthy, says daughter
After his ‘suspicious’ death, the Hollywood star’s friends and daughter reflect on his real ‘glory days’ growing old and writing novels in New Mexico seclusion.
Human printing, authoritarian showmen: Parasite director’s new film bound to Ruffalo feathers
In Mickey 17, Parasite director Bong Joon Ho explores a sci-fi, parallel universe, where we die to save humanity, and bow down to a failed leader. It’s accuracy to modern times shocked even him, he tells us.
Why any film was better when Gene Hackman acted in it
In a rare interview, Gene Hackman mused that he was uncomfortable with stardom and disliked seeing himself on screen. Yet he was one of the great actors of our time or any other.
‘Why would I give up a career as a Hollywood hack to make this film?’
When director Phillip Noyce left Los Angeles’ bright lights to come home and make Rabbit-Proof Fence, he came armed with a secret weapon he said would guarantee its success.
Mystery end of one of Hollywood’s enduring stars, Gene Hackman and his wife
While police investigate the unsettling circumstances surrounding the death of Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa, tributes roll in for one of the most celebrated actors of the past 60 years.
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