Happy Feet creator reels in Netflix deal
Screen producer Zareh Nalbandian seals the biggest deal of his career.
Film
Slighted Sly fights for slice of Rocky rights
The Hollywood star, 76, has taken a swing at producer Irwin Winkler over control of the six-film franchise, which has grossed £1.4bn ($2.46bn).
The foley artists making a noise
It is the seldom-noted skill in filmmaking that has us believing not just what we see, but what we hear, on wildlife documentaries and in Hollywood blockbusters.
Stuck in the swamp
Where the Crawdads Sing should be a better film than this.
Call this Australian? Tell ’em they’re dreaming
It saddens me to see Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis celebrated as an Australian film.
‘Handsome, mysterious and dangerous’
Fans of Leonard Cohen, and there are millions of them, will be enthralled by this portrait of “a kind of modern minstrel”.
Spacey pleads not guilty to sexual assault
Hollywood star Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty at London’s Old Bailey court to four charges of sexual assault against three men.
Character building, role by role
The camera loves Adam Bessa, and not only for his boyish good looks. The star of critically acclaimed Tunisian drama Harka is an actor with astonishing range.
Size matters … but festival quality counts
From new Australian drama Of An Age to David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream, the Melbourne film festival will appeal to cinephiles and casual moviegoers.
Thor hammers his rivals with a blockbuster haul
Thor: Love and Thunder, starring Australian Chris Hemsworth, has enjoyed a blockbuster debut, topping this weekend’s North American box office with an estimated $US143m haul ($210m).
Banderas’s big, passionate life
The Spanish actor is not shy about winning awards, but a close shave with mortality has refocused his energy on roles that really matter to him.
Depp blasts away courtroom blues with Heard hate song
Johnny Depp to break his silence after bitter libel trial with ex-wife Amber Heard in the form of an album, recorded with Jeff Beck.
‘I only watch reality nonsense at the moment. I’m so bad’
English actor Laura Carmichael on her Downton Abbey downtime in Australia, her creepy new thriller and her guilty TV pleasure.
Getting to grips with opera singing
In Falling for Figaro, Ab Fab icon Joanna Lumley transforms into a singing teacher with some truly sadistic methods. Director Ben Lewin opens up on the casting coup and his own musical revelation.
Why James Caan will always be Sonny Corleone to me
His role as the Godfather’s violent Mafia mobster was so entrenched that he twice won ‘Italian of the Year’ titles, despite being raised in Queens by German-Jewish parents. That’s acting at its highest level.
Sense of dread in Acapulco
Tim Roth is compelling as remote, enigmatic husband to Charlotte Gainsbourg in mysterious film Sundown.
Hemsworth stretches his comic muscles
The star is almost vaudevillian in Thor: Love and Thunder, one of the funnier superhero movies I’ve seen.
45 years on, Elvis Inc always on our mind
Elvis is big business again, 45 years after he died. There is the hit movie, children’s books, a Netflix series and soon a dedicated streaming channel.
Two people with nothing in common fall in love
Ali & Ava is a heart-warming film about seizing that second chance in life and not letting go.
Vonnegut, warts and all
The fame of Slaughterhouse-Five propelled the author into Manhattan and the literary elite. He left his wife, the woman who believed in his writing when he did not.
The enigmatic Jacob Elordi
Aussie actor Jacob Elordi is pretty chuffed to be following in the footsteps of Steve McQueen in his role as TAG Heuer ambassador.
Genesis and afterlife of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
One of the Canadian singer-songwriters’s most beloved songs is the subject of a new documentary film.
Lightning strikes twice with new Thor
Australia’s place as the centre of the film universe has again been reinforced with the imminent release of the latest Marvel film.
How to please a woman? Here’s a clue
Women are finally saying what they want – but perhaps more crucially, what they don’t.
Introducing the reel Elvis
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic inspires David Stratton to delve into the King of Rock ’n’ Roll’s cinematic work and finds a promising actor who failed to move with the times.
What in hell did I just watch?
This is one of the most gobsmacking, mind-bending, stomach-churning movies I have seen. It’s an indefinable personal masterpiece.
A perfect mix of violence and excitement
American mass culture is extremely unsophisticated. But that only partly explains Australia’s disproportionate impact on Hollywood.
Latin twist on Father of the Bride a lot of fun
Now, in culturally inclusive 2022, the old father’s tale turns its back on a WASP wedding in favour of a Cuban-American one starring Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia as mum and dad.
There’s cultural value in projecting Australia on screen
Australians respond warmly to ‘Australianness’ on screen, but local authenticity isn’t a requirement of industry or funding bodies.
National treasures
Nathalie Baye and Cecile de France enjoy the sort of career success that many Hollywood actors only dream of.
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