‘Winning script, ingenious hooks’: Fall guy is jaw-dropping
The film is executed so superbly that it’s elevated above its silly premise. Plus, the cast with more chemistry than Christopher Nolan’s latest Oscar winner.
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Adelaide hit horror directors tap Oscar nominee for next film
Danny and Michael Philippou, the twin filmmakers behind last years horror hit Talk To Me, will direct and write the original film Bring Her Back.
Jerry Seinfeld thinks ‘the extreme left’ is killing comedy
The comedian has blamed the dearth of television comedy on political correctness and ‘people worrying so much about offending other people’.
A Media heiress’s bid to sell sets of mayhem inside Paramount
The storied Hollywood company behind ‘The Godfather’ faces its biggest battle yet as Shari Redstone’s merger plans collide with shareholder fury and a CEO on the outs
Nicole officially a Hollywood living legend
Nicole Kidman is the first Australian star to be awarded the prestigious Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute.
“I called my agent and said, ‘I think I got the part. But I’m not sure’…”
Chris Hemsworth is Hollywood box office gold, but when it came to vying for a role in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga he was ready to “audition” for George Miller.
Five things to watch this weekend
Cliff Curtis is on cracking form in the tense new SBS thriller Swift Street, plus an unsung drama about forbidden love.
Jay-Z, Jesus and me: the Bible rebooted
Writer-director Jeymes Samuel talks about working with the rap superstar on his wildly ambitious comedy, The Book of Clarence.
Does this film do Amy Winehouse justice?
Can the English actor Marisa Abela, star of the biopic Back to Black, sing as well as the soulful, troubled English singer-songwriter? Of course not, but that’s not the point.
An American civil war is far-fetched, and yet …
Domestic turbulence in the US as depicted in a new film is the biggest threat to the West
This year’s sexiest film doesn’t have any sex
The game is just a metaphor, says Zendaya, the star and producer of Luca Guadagnino’s smoking hot love-triangle drama set in the world of tennis.
DiCaprio set to be Scorsese’s ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’, but is he on song?
The actor has admitted his voice is ‘atrocious’ — so Martin Scorsese may have his work cut out if he casts him in his biopic.
Spot the Australian landmarks in this Hollywood blockbuster
The Fall Guy was filmed in Sydney and it’s entertaining to see action movie hi jinx on our famous landmarks – not to mention the chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Rust armourer sentenced to 18 months for shooting death of cinematographer
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was reckless in handling the gun in the 2021 killing of Halyna Hutchins, judge says.
No fade to black for Amy Winehouse
As the singer’s biopic is released, Sean O’Neill explores what happened to her disgraced ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, and formidable father, Mitch.
Harry and Meghan launch two new Netflix series
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex set a lifestyle series and a polo championship series with the streamer, as part of their $100m deal.
Rowling won’t forgive Harry Potter stars for pro-trans views
Author JK Rowling has reignited a bitter row with stars Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe for using their celebrity platform to ‘cheer on’ the transitioning of children.
Isla follows Nicole’s lead as love story ends
The Home & Away star proves you can take the girl out of Perth, but not Perth out of the girl as she is photographed for the first time since announcing the separation from her husband Sacha Baron Cohen.
Proof some stories don’t need to be told in words
This movie, nominated as best animated feature at the 2024 Oscars, is also a love letter to New York City. It will bring a tear to many an eye.
‘OK, what kind of American are you?’: our pick at the movies this week
The riveting near-future drama Civil War is a confronting take on what might have been the next step after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Pitt, Jolie and the Hollywood divorce drama club
Brad and Angelina’s divorce and its aftermath have lasted four times longer than their two-year marriage. Could it be the longest running split in Hollywood history?
Jeremy Allen White to play Bruce Springsteen in biopic
The Emmy-winning The Bear star is all-but confirmed to play The Boss in a film based on the making of his landmark 1982 album, Nebraska.
The Australian actor Robert Downey Jr saw ‘become a star’
Things are about to change for Australia’s dazzling Hoa Xuande. But at 36, the star of HBO’s upcoming The Sympathizer is anything but an overnight success story.
Studio bosses animated about their path to global success
Meet the two faces behind the internationally acclaimed children’s animation studio, Like A Photon Creative, whose award-winning content has been viewed in 179 global territories and is produced straight out of Queensland.
Rebel Wilson memoir pulled from Australian shelves
The release of the comedian’s controversy-stirring memoir has been suddenly delayed in Australia, one week after she revealed receiving legal threats from former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.
Jump on the ride and see where this film takes you
In the oddball Italian language movie La Chimera British actor Josh O’Connor, who won awards as Prince Charles in the television series The Crown, does just what the British Empire was founded upon: pinches things that don’t belong to him.
A devilishly fun 70s romp
What’s your idea of hell? That’s one of the questions posed in Late Night With the Devil, an inventive and thoroughly entertaining pulp horror movie.
This film is a Hamlet you’ve never seen
A potential rift in the thespian generation gap is the tantalising set-up to The Motive and the Cue, a film of Jack Thorne’s play that premiered at London’s National Theatre in 2023.
How Isabel Wilkerson’s best-seller about caste became a powerful biopic
The first African-American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in journalism believes that caste, not racism, lies behind bigotry.
Younger generation of African migrants faces a cruel journey
In Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano, Senegalese teenagers seeking a better life in Europe face much greater obstacles than the Sahara.
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