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Hugh Jackman
Taking matters into his own hands
Jenny Cooney Carrillo Hugh Jackman describes Prisoners as "every parent's worst nightmare", and he's not exaggerating.
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Hijacking The Fifth Estate
KARL QUINN Julian Assange's campaign to turn people off The Fifth Estate appears to be working.
Charles Dance
'I don't get enough chances to play comedy,'
PHILIPPA HAWKER The English actor, best known now for his role in Game of Thrones, admits on the set of horror film Patrick that he's actually quite up for a laugh.
Movies
Clive Palmer plans Titanic movie
Clive Palmer says moviegoers might catch a glimpse of him reclining in a deckchair in a new film set aboard the Titanic II.
Angelina Jolie
Unbroken shoot sets Moreton Bay abuzz
MARISSA CALLIGEROS A 'Straddie barge' has been transformed into a floating Hollywood movie set for Angelina Jolie's upcoming World War II drama Unbroken.
Christa Theret
Renoir: Portrait of an artist's model
GARRY MADDOX Christa Theret bares all in this delicate story of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's last muse.
Deborah Mailman
Deborah Mailman's Walk on the Darkside
STEVE DOW Deborah Mailman found Warwick Thornton's new film, about indigenous ghost stories, tough going.
Coming Home
Nicole Kidman to star in Strangerland
Australian Hollywood A-listers Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce will all star in the new Australian film Strangerland.
Silk Road
Webbed tale of drugs, murder to become film
PHILIPPA HAWKER Crime novelist Dennis Lehane will write a film called Silk Road, about the encrypted marketplace used to sell illicit drugs.
Ryan Kwanten
Magical mystery tour back to home territory
Jenny Cooney Carrillo Working for Ivan Sen drew Ryan Kwanten back for Mystery Road.
Extortion
Transformers director attacked on set
MICHAEL LALLO Hollywood director Michael Bay described his attacker being 'like a zombie in Brad Pitt's movie World War Z'.
Winner
Melissa Bergland could be next Rebel Wilson
Paul Kalina The Winners & Losers star has landed the lead role in a film that could help her crack the lucrative North American industry.
Bad boy Bond
The dark side of 007
Beyond the champagne fizz and glamour of the world's most famous fictional spy lies a dark portrait of flawed humanity. As Melbourne's love affair with the legend continues, Jonathan Green explores the awful truth about James Bond.
50 Shades
Did fandom chase away Charlie Hunnam?
KARL QUINN If Charlie Hunnam really has backed out of Fifty Shades of Grey because the fans didn't want him, could it mark a tipping point in the relationship between studio and audience?
Latest reviews
Captain Phillips
CRAIG MATHIESON A hijacked ship is awash with gritty performances in Captain Phillips.
In Bob We Trust
JAKE WILSON A compelling portrait of Father Bob Maguire, a tireless social activist and a thorn in the side of the local Catholic hierarchy.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
ED GIBBS It's more chucklesome than laugh-out-loud, but Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa has a bit of heart.
Blancanieves
ED GIBBS Blancanieves is a deliciously witty update of Snow White that demands inspection.
Once Upon A Time In Vietnam
JAKE WILSON The first film from actor-turned-director Dustin Nguyen is first feature as writer-director is a strange, and disappointing, action-fantasy hybrid.
Stranger By The Lake
JAKE WILSON An elegant erotic thriller that trades on the ambiguity inherent in every exchange between two people.
Machete Kills
SANDRA HALL Robert Rodriguez again displays his gift for mayhem, but he also shows his weakness with dialogue and scant attention to plot logic.
Mystery Road
PHILIPPA HAWKER A film that uses the genre trappings of the western and the thriller to explore a complex story of crime and indifference.
About Time
Jake Wilson The latest comedy from Richard Curtis is slightly fascinating, if rather familiar.
Film
The Boy Castaways
GARRY MADDOX As an exercise in bold commissioning, Michael Kantor's The Boy Castaways is a success, but as a film it is not.
Full coverage
Movie stars secure millions for WA industry
JILLIAN MCHUGH 1:58pm The benefits of having big name stars visit Western Australia have been highlighted by the State Government in handing over $7.5 million to fund more local productions.
Joy Luck
Hollywood must think bigger about China, says Joy Luck Club producer Janet Yang
12:31pm With a few exceptions, Hollywood studios are moving far more slowly than Chinese companies in the world's second-largest movie market, said US producer Janet Yang, whose works include The Joy Luck Club and Shanghai Calling.
The Butler: Oprah Winfrey back on the big screen
Pip Cummings The issues raised in The Butler lured Oprah Winfrey back to the big screen.
How I unwind: Domhnall Gleeson
ADAM FULTON Domhnall Gleeson is going places - and not just by being able to travel through time in his latest film.
Yeah, noir! ’40s-style feature film finds favour
Perth producer Nate Strider-Knight has put his all into creating a stunning 1940s noir film with a modern edge.
Grateful
Sam Worthington who? 365 Gratefuls author surprised by email
NICK GALVIN Sam Worthington says his life has been changed by a book that celebrates the small pleasures of life.
Stop leaking!
GILES HARDIE It seems Julian Assange can't stop leaking, even when it's not in his own interest. The Australian subject of the biopic The Fifth Estate, out on November 11, is essentially campaigning against the film's release.
Melbourne film listings
Philippa Hawker and Jake Wilson New releases this week: Patrick, Stranger by the Lake, About Time and more.
Columns
All eyes on Adelaide
Indigenous storytelling was to the fore at Adelaide's film festival.
Did Fifty Shades of fandom chase away Charlie Hunnam?
If Charlie Hunnam really has backed out of Fifty Shades of Grey because the fans didn't want him, could it mark a tipping point in the relationship between studio and audience?
Get Flick'd
Giles Hardie's lifelong mission is to bring Gold Class to the masses.
Australian film wins prize in Venice
The Australian film Ruin, shot in Cambodia, was among the prizewinners in Venice.
Lesbian love epic wins Cannes' top prize
An audacious lesbian love story featuring hardcore sex by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Trailers
American Hustle
The story of a con artist and his partner in crime, who are forced to work with a federal agent to turn the tables on other cons, mobsters, and politicians.
Prisoners
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands.
Philomena
After her baby is whisked away by nuns to America for adoption, Philomena spends the next 50 years searching for him. Based on a true story.
In Bob We Trust
Documentary about the dynamic and sometimes controversial Melbourne Catholic priest Father Bob Maguire.
Ender's Game
In the near future, when a hostile alien race has attacked Earth, a boy named Ender is humanity's best chance of survival.
Mystery Road
An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
The Armstrong Lie
An exposition of cyclist Lance Armstrong as he trains for his eighth Tour de France victory.
About Time
A young man discovers he can travel back in time to "fix" his own life but his pursuit of a girlfriend is more challenging than he might have expected.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Young covert CIA analyst Jack Ryan uncovers a Russian plot to crash the US economy with a terrorist attack.
Closed Circuit
Following a mysterious explosion in a busy London market, the police swoop, a suspect is detained, and the country prepares for one of the most high-profile trials in British history.
The Boy Castaways
Esteemed theatre director Michael Kantor makes a genre-defying cinema debut with a metaphysical thriller that sees four men drawn into a grand cabaret of the soul.
Thor - The Dark World
Thor continues his battle to save the Earth and all the nine realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The second part of Peter Jackson's trilogy of films adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece.
I, Frankenstein
Frankenstein's creation Adam finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.
Inside Llewyn Davis
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
Enough Said
A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.
Kill Your Darlings
The true story of a murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughsin 1944.
Young Detective Dee - Rise of the Sea Dragon
The young Dee Renjie arrives in the Imperial Capital, intent to become an officer of the law.
