Doctor Who’s Paul McGann on almost 30 years of time travelling
Doctor Who’s Paul McGann talks about playing the iconic time-traveller on screen, stage and in audio adventures.
Film
Crime romance fades as the characters age
The strength of new film Beating Hearts is its teen love story, but the rest is good enough to keep you watching to the end.
This film is a zany take on letting nature take its course
What happens when you turn 1400ha of farmland in West Sussex into a biodiverse landscape full of wild animals?
‘Gypsy’ Hoges rides into town on a surprise trip back home
A frail-looking Paul Hogan returned Down Under on Wednesday and was spotted being escorted through Sydney Airport in a special assistance wheelchair by Qantas staff.
Dissident Iranian filmmaker wins Palme d’Or
Banned from making films and jailed for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” Jafar Panahi drew on his time in Tehran’s Evin Prison for It Was Just an Accident — a darkly comic tale that has taken top honours at Cannes.
Spacey won at Cannes but in Hollywood he’s still a pariah
Industry insiders are conflicted as the Oscar winner, acquitted twice for sexual misconduct, plots a comeback.
Actors, know your trade tools: Cruise’s final reckoning
Film schools should teach editing and camerawork to help performers get the most out of cinema, the Hollywood’s Tom Cruise says.
Slow magic of the music abides
Big Lebowski star Jeff Bridges has survived cancer, Covid and bushfire disaster – and released an album.
Universal Language review: Decidedly odd – but oddly tender
Imagine if Donald Trump took over Canada and then sold it to Iran. That’s sort of the setting for this unconventional alternate reality drama-comedy.
Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Pure, heart-racing entertainment
Tom Cruise returns for what may be his final outing as Ethan Hunt in this $400m spectacle of underwater stand-offs, mid-air duels and world-ending stakes.
Nicole Kidman isn’t afraid of ‘incredibly disturbing’ roles
The Australian star returns to Cannes after eight years to receive the Women in Motion Award.
At long last: Michael Cera in a Wes Anderson film
The Phoenician Scheme, Anderson’s twelfth film, marks the first collaboration between two men who defined the twee 2010s.
Maybe I find everything boring because I’m a ‘miserable, grumpy old git’
Current projections have me dying of boredom in mid-November 2029, unable to endure any more badly written, predictable and cliche-polluted films, TV series or books.
‘Nothing was off limits’: Mel Brooks reflects on a lifetime of laughter
The comedy legend turns 99 next month and is still serious about making people laugh. Looking back, there is one production he is most proud of.
Cannes has finally turned its back on the disgraced Depardieu. Good
The festival opened on the same day that one of its heroes, Gérard Depardieu, was convicted of sexual assault.
The Salt Path review — a story of loss, love and walking
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are terrific as a couple who embark on a long coastal walk after becoming homeless in this adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir.
The Wedding Banquet review — entertaining update of a queer cinema classic
This remake of Ang Lee’s seminal 1993 comedy is a tender, at times thought provoking, look at the cultural and generational tension in the Asian-American LGBTQ community.
Taylor Swift subpoenaed in escalating It Ends With Us legal battle
Director Justin Baldoni’s US$400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds intensifies with the subpoena of the pop megastar, who Lively referred to as one of her “dragons,” in connection with alleged interference in the film’s script.
Kate Winslet’s daughter is the breakout star in this upcoming Wes Anderson film
Speaking to Vogue Australia ahead of her Cannes debut, Mia Threapleton has a pinch-me moment stepping into the filmmaker’s latest fantastical dream world.
Why Lily Gladstone is in full bloom
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone talks about her new comedy, The Wedding Banquet, and her sexuality and her friend Leonardo DiCaprio.
Trump tariffs a ‘loony move’ for a global film industry
The Australian director says he is bemused at Donald Trump’s move to ban US moviemakers from foreign investment and foreign locations.
Don’t miss Nicolas Cage in one of his most complex roles yet
Nicolas Cage brings his manic energy to this idiosyncratic thriller in which NIMBYism is taken to the extreme. There are times, under the unblinking Australian sun, where it looks like his head is about to explode.
We’re a nation of cinematic tradies, not artists
The threat of Trump’s film tariffs has revealed the extent to which Australia has become a service industry for international film rather than a country that invests in its own creativity.
Actor with accent on versatility
Cosmo Jarvis went from drawing samurai swords as the hero of Shogun to playing an American sniper in Warfare. It took him to his limit.
Trump tariff threat ‘kick in the guts’ for local film industry
The Gold Coast has spent decades trying to attract filmmakers to the famed glitter strip; mayor Tom Tate laments the potential effects of Donald Trump’s proposed tariff.
Hollywood wanted Trump to bring movie-making home but not like this
Jon Voight meet Donald Trump last weekend to plead for help in stemming the exodus of film and TV production to other countries – 100 per cent tariffs wasn’t what he asked for.
Trump’s monster film tariffs unspool a disaster for movie-making
Donald Trump’s plan to impose a 100 per cent tariff on ‘any and all’ movies made in ‘foreign lands’ carries significant economic and cultural consequences.
Ocean with David Attenborough: All aboard for must-sea doco
This documentary is the least beautiful film the British biologist, natural historian, conservationist, broadcaster and filmmaker has made. This is intentional.
‘They couldn’t stop me if they wanted to’
She may be playing a ‘blindly optimistic’ character, but Emma Lung can clearly see it was a punt she took on herself which led to a plum role starring opposite Australian television royalty.
Dundee has been sanitised but it’s still a good movie
Some frames involving Mick and a cross-dresser are among those that have been deleted from Crocodile Dundee: The Encore Cut, the restored and edited 4K cut of Australia’s most commercially successful film.
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