Scientology’s dark side
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has tackled James Brown and Catholicism. Now he turns his sights on a new “opponent’’.
Film
‘Unwatchable’ FIFA film nets $900
A FIFA-financed movie made only about $US900 over the weekend, according to a person who has seen box-office data.
Violence? I’m Maxed out
I walked out of the latest MadMax movie after 20 minutes. I hereby declare surrender. Violence has won.
Dinosaur designs
Jurassic Park III, animated hit Despicable Me and Billy Elliot are among the top picks on free-to-air television.
Caine and able
This week’s picks include Alfie, Harry Brown, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and 1940 noir feature They Drive by Night.
Boys will be boys
Entourage makes the transition to cinema without losing the spirit of camaraderie (or the cameos) that powered the TV series.
Hollywood’s unsung Aussie
Film director Gillian Armstrong explains why she was drawn to a much-awarded yet almost unknown costume designer.
‘I felt like I was in a movie’
Reese Witherspoon’s business partner is an Aussie who flew to Hollywood on a $1000 loan. Now she’s on the power list.
Cynical bros ‘pander to audience’
The Entourage may have to resort to their well-worn path of drowning their sorrows after reading some savage reviews.
Just how sexist is Hollywood?
The average age gap between on-screen love interests has been revealed, and the results might just surprise you.
What the Dickens?
Ralph Fiennes second film as a director, The Invisible Woman, is among a crop of fine pay-TV film offerings this week.
Gold standard
Director Simon Curtis expects Woman in Gold to resonate widely because of the contemporary significance of its themes.
Hollywood’s sexism problem
Age, sex and footwear have been the basis of criticism for women in the film industry this week. We have to do better.
Critical acclaim for Williams
Evan Williams will be honoured with the inaugural Geraldine Pascall Lifetime Achievement Award for criticism.
At every stage he did it his way
Orson Welles’s biographer explains why the auteur looms large at 100.
La femme to the fore in Cannes
The best of Cannes so far has been Todd Haynes’s gorgeous Carol, about two women falling in love in repressive 1950s America.
Canada move animates local studio
Animal Logic will expand its relationship with Warner Bros Pictures to establish a studio in Canada and produce more animated films.
Flat shoes kicked from Cannes
Scandal erupts over reports that women were asked to leave a Cannes premiere for wearing flat shoes on the red carpet.
Old dog with new tricks
Filming has begun on the not-a-sequel of local hit Red Dog.
Hope on the streets of Chicago
Kim Longinotto finds an ideal heroine in Brenda Myers-Powell.
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