CONCERT FILM REVIEWMusicFew rock bands can match the raw power and propulsive swagger generated by Queens of the Stone Age in full flight. A new concert film shows the quintet in a raw, delicate state deep underground.
film reviewsReviewThe movie Ballerina is more or less two hours of former Bond girl Ana de Armas killing people.
WISHWishSophia Banks on the elusive entrepreneur, supporting female talent, working with Jacob Elordi and getting her big break.
Hollywood ‘royalty’The TimesAs the daughter of Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard grew up in Hollywood surrounded by stars – until her sister hit Steve Martin with a shoe. But she’s making her own way in a competitive world.
Ed Potton
NationBaz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin have been awarded the Order of Australia in recognition of their contribution to the arts.
FilmThe TimesSteven Spielberg’s classic terrified audiences and created a blockbuster 50 years ago, but problems with the mechanical shark and on-set rows almost led to it being canned.
KEIRAN SOUTHERN
★★★½ReviewYou won’t want to take a toilet break during the new Wes Anderson movie. Duck out for five minutes and you may miss Bill Murray being God.
★★★★ReviewAfter making a killing with Talk To Me, Adelaide’s Philippou twins return with a taut, unsettling horror — this time with a taxidermy dog and Sally Hawkins.
the WhoniverseFilmDoctor Who’s Paul McGann talks about playing the iconic time-traveller on screen, stage and in audio adventures.
★★★ReviewThe strength of new film Beating Hearts is its teen love story, but the rest is good enough to keep you watching to the end.
★★★ReviewWhat happens when you turn 1400ha of farmland in West Sussex into a biodiverse landscape full of wild animals?
IconNationA 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.
Zoe De Koning
Full winners listArtsBanned 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.
cold comfortThe TimesIndustry insiders are conflicted as the Oscar winner, acquitted twice for sexual misconduct, plots a comeback.
Keiran Southern
FILMThe TimesFilm schools should teach editing and camerawork to help performers get the most out of cinema, the Hollywood’s Tom Cruise says.
David Sanderson
‘a Dude-esque aspect’The TimesBig Lebowski star Jeff Bridges has survived cancer, Covid and bushfire disaster – and released an album.
Will Hodgkinson
★★★ReviewImagine 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.
★★★★ReviewTom 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.
Cannes Film FestivalArtsThe Australian star returns to Cannes after eight years to receive the Women in Motion Award.
reviewReviewThe Phoenician Scheme, Anderson’s twelfth film, marks the first collaboration between two men who defined the twee 2010s.
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.
comedyReviewThe 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.
The sacred monsterThe TimesThe festival opened on the same day that one of its heroes, Gérard Depardieu, was convicted of sexual assault.
Kevin Maher
★★★½ReviewGillian 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.
★★★ReviewThis 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.
‘creating tabloid clickbait’ArtsDirector 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.
One to watchFilmSpeaking to Vogue Australia ahead of her Cannes debut, Mia Threapleton has a pinch-me moment stepping into the filmmaker’s latest fantastical dream world.
Hannah-Rose Yee
FilmThe TimesKillers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone talks about her new comedy, The Wedding Banquet, and her sexuality and her friend Leonardo DiCaprio.
Ed Potton
‘Films are so international’FilmThe Australian director says he is bemused at Donald Trump’s move to ban US moviemakers from foreign investment and foreign locations.
★★★½ReviewNicolas 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.