Giving the slip to royal routine
Emily Watson is the wartime queen whose daughters went AWOL.
Film
Women in love (with each other)
As Cate Blanchett’s film about a lesbian affair is unveiled, sapphic love is becoming all the rage.
Blanchett’s lesbian love tales a hit
A powerful lesbian love story starring Cate Blanchett and a groundbreaking Holocaust drama emerged as favourites at the Cannes Film Festival.
Blanchett’s lesbian love tales a hit
A powerful lesbian love story starring Cate Blanchett and a groundbreaking Holocaust drama emerged as favourites at the Cannes Film Festival.
Mad Max’s $136m weekend
Australian-made Mad Max: Fury Road was the most popular film globally in its opening weekend and the series’ biggest earner.
How clowns came to haunt us
Clowns, once kid-friendly, are now simply scary. The Poltergeist remake is set to stir memories of the new movie monster.
Watts suffers a blow at Cannes
Naomi Watts and Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey have defended director Gus Van Sant, whose latest film has been panned at Cannes.
Sharp-shooting women
Paul Feig’s Spy is an entertaining Hollywood action comedy but the main attraction is Australian: the dazzling Rose Byrne.
From noir gems to Pan’s Labyrinth
A pair of film noir gems lead off this week’s recommendations.
Stories brought to life
Tim Winton’s The Turning is among the highlights of films screening on pay television this week.
The Cumberbatch enigma
One of the recent mysteries of the box office was the excellent performance of Academy Award best picture nominee The Imitation Game.
Young and free
A generational shift in paying (or not paying) for the arts has wide-reaching ramifications for culture.
Is that you, Charlize?
Charlize Theron’s female hero steals the show in George Miller’s anticipated fourth instalment of Mad Max.
Bollywood backs star in homicide
Bollywood is standing by a star sentenced to five years in jail for killing a homeless man while drink driving.
Local flavour for Sydney Film Festival
The Sydney Film Festival will open and close with Australian films and feature three local features in competition for the Sydney Film Prize.
Goldstone boasts stellar cast
Ivan Sen has begun filming new indigenous movie Goldstone, with a cracking cast, in Queensland.
Method director’s seven-year itch
Shane Abbess is hot property once more with Infini.
Piracy plague stops Aussie release
A new Australian film will be released in cinemas globally but not in Australia due to rampant piracy here.
Homeland recovers by going abroad
The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum nailed it the other day when she wrote nobody could possibly claim their favourite show is “the best drama on TV”.
Web of horror
If you are worried about your kids on the internet, Levan Gabriadze’s clever and creepy cyber chiller Unfriended will do nothing to ease your mind.
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