American writer-director Oz Perkins flexes his imaginative muscles to deliver outlandish means of awful death such as decapitation and dismemberment … but it’s how they happen that is unusual.
The actor best known for Succession is annoying but excellent in this funny film about a pair of Jewish cousins on a pilgrimage to visit the childhood home of their Holocaust survivor grandmother.
The actor is a single dad about to wed a woman he has known for three months. Not everyone is happy about the news in this tender film with laugh-out-loud moments.
In a fiery video posted to his X account, the Oscar-winning actor rebuked Pearce’s claims that he had made untoward advances on him in 1997 while filming L.A. Confidential.
Our next generation of directors is telling homegrown stories for global audiences, capturing the beauty of our landscape for the screen.
Edward Berger’s palpal thriller and Brady Corbet’s sweeping melodrama take the top honours, but the evening’s true drama lies in the off-screen controversies.
Mohammad Rasoulof, who has served jail time for making films that violate Iran’s censorship laws, fled his homeland ahead of the release of this film, which is well worth a watch.
Now widowed and in her fifties, Bridget Jones navigates love, loss, and ‘labial lockdown’. Hugh Grant steals scenes, Emma Thompson delivers comic gold, and wet-shirted romance lives on.
The actor, nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for his scene-stealing turn in The Brutalist, talks money, Neighbours and why he was terrible in Memento.
Journalists who witnessed the terrorist attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics tell the story in the tense thriller September 5.
The critically adored Netflix adaptation of the Trent Dalton’s best-selling debut novel has dominated Australia’s film and television awards.
The James Bond star gives a raw performance in Queer, based on the semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs.
Netflix has dropped Oscar hopeful Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of Emilia Perez, from its high-profile Oscars campaign over her offensive social media posts.
Warren Mundine claims his appearances at the AACTA festival have been cancelled as a direct result of his role in the campaign against the Indigenous voice to parliament.
Hollywood power couple Lively and Ryan Reynolds are being targeted by Baldoni, Lively’s co-star on the Colleen Hoover adaptation, after she sued Baldoni and alleged sexual harassment.
Spies, detectives and villains have been lifted from the page to inspire some riveting contemporary television adaptations. One in particular is a must-watch masterpiece.
A chef diagnosed with ovarian cancer is torn between making her mark and spending time with her family.
Protest is much more than just a theme for the rising film industry in Iran.
The Great White Whale documents an attempt to climb Big Ben on Heard Island: have-a-go Australia in its heyday.
Bob Dylan and Bill Gates showed the world can be changed by daring twenty-somethings — but is that happening now?
A controversy over the use of voice-cloning software has dented the awards frontrunner. It’s not the first film to fall at the final hurdle.
The Hollywood actor plays melancholic diva Maria Callas to perfection in this swansong biopic.
Isabella Rosellini was once famously dumped as the face of Lancome for being ‘too old’ – she was 42. But the world has turned, she says, and the experience of older women is finally being realised onscreen.
Emilia Pérez, a zany Spanish-language musical about a drug kingpin pursuing gender-affirming surgery, leads the pack with 13 nominations. Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman’s snub shifts Australia’s hopes to Guy Pearce and Adam Elliot.
“Some of the assumptions we’ve made about him are too simple,” says director James Mangold, whose film A Complete Unknown captures the frenzied four years that saw The Bard rewrite the rules of folk music—and his own mythology.
Every time Timothee Chalamet sang one of Dylan’s songs I had the urge to clap and cheer for what is a 10-star performance.
The fake orgasms by the Australian actor in this bold erotic thriller are evidence of ‘raw, astonishing acting’.
For more than a decade, the Scholarship has supported an Australian actor during their breakout moment. Vogue Australia meets this year’s group of finalists and the winner, Andrea Solonge, as they prepare for their close-ups.
The film star credits a stable home life for allowing her to take artistic risks in the erotic thriller Babygirl; but while Kidman craves the ‘cocoon’, Aussie co-star Sophie Wilde is ready to break out of hers.
In the aftermath of the LA fires, there are calls to scrap the annual awards ceremony for the first time in its 96-year history.
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