Margot Robbie is perfect as the flawless doll who becomes sentient and starts to have an existential crisis. That sounds serious, and it is in one sense, but this movie is zanily funny from start to finish.
Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington and other actors of a certain age are coming soon to a cinema near you — again. They’re putting a new spin on the term ‘old Hollywood.’
The actress and singer’s steamy hit with her French partner Serge Gainsbourg and the couple’s wild lifestyle became an avatar for the time.
The first combined Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strike in nearly 60 years covers all American commissioned work, regardless of where the production is being filmed.
Australian filmmakers James Wan and Leigh Whannell have had considerable success in Hollywood with their bloody horror films. But it’s time to give the Insidious franchise a rest.
The Canadian comedy The End of Sex starts with an awkward truth: that a couple’s sex life can start out hot and, over time, turn cold.
The big names ‘left to write their picket signs’ once film and TV actors voted to join screenwriters in their first simultaneous strike in over 60 years.
A prolonged strike involving writers and actors could mean Hollywood’s pipeline of fresh shows and movies will thin.
With Perfect Days, a meditation on the simple life of a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, veteran director Wim Wenders has delivered his best film in years.
The Australian actor has dug into the toy box to pay homage to different dolls over the decades. See all of the classic looks.
The upcoming film starring Margot Robbie was banned over a map depicting the South China Sea, described as an innocent ‘whimsical’ drawing by the film studio.
Silverstone will have a sprinkling of Hollywood stardust this weekend, with actor Brad Pitt racing at the Northamptonshire circuit during the British Grand Prix.
The impossible stunts are dazzling but it’s the endless appeal of an old-fashioned movie star in Tom Cruise that is the highlight of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1.
The Oscar-winning actor says ‘it’s time we evolved’, as her director likens Australia to ‘a spoilt only child’.
Hollywood thought an edgy movie about an iconic blonde doll with a diverse cast would make it cancel proof, they were wrong.
Bizet’s opera is exhilarating, to be sure, but the narrative appears to take a dim view of a woman’s freedom to choose her partner and also appears to endorse domestic violence.
It’s a good time to shelter from the cold in a cinema. Here’s what we’ll be watching.
The American star, known for his role in The Devil Wears Prada, says the job of an actor is ‘to play different people’.
Alan Arkin was a prolific actor acclaimed for his portrayal of Yossarian in Catch-22 and the foul-mouthed grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine.
The Hollywood star is down under for the premiere of his latest blockbuster, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.
Younger viewers increasingly want legible dialogue. Thousands of freelance workers are required to write it
Younger viewers increasingly want legible dialogue. Thousands of freelance workers are required to write it.
How the award-winning actor helped Indigenous director Warwick Thornton turn his personal story into a feature film after 18 years.
The Succession actress delivers a strong performance in Run Rabbit Run. But it’s nine-year-old Lily LaTorre who is the standout.
The actor and producer is currently in Australia on the first stop of the blockbuster’s press tour and says she might not have made the movie if not for a big change at toymaker Mattel.
A new film starring Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal reimagines the story of Carmen through dance, with the beauty of the Australian outback as its backdrop.
This film tells the story of a woman who leaked a classified document that confirmed the existence of Russian interference in the 2016 election that brought Donald Trump to power.
Even Jennifer Lawrence’s easygoing charisma can’t save this entirely uncredible tale.
Powerfully moving film The Last Daughter reveals that, in NSW, Aboriginal children were still being taken from their parents and handed over to non-Indigenous families as late as 1973.
Harrison Ford is such a pleasure to watch. Indy’s roguish charm, crooked smile and dry sense of humour have nothing to do with his digital de-ageing.
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