Movies
Michael Fassbender
It's all about finding the humanity
Jenny Cooney Carillo Not even the most difficult or unsympathetic roles faze the Irish actor.
Editor's choice
Parents of the Caribbean
Sydney couple go viral with movie spoofs
PHILIPPA HAWKER Leon Mackie, Lilly Lang and their 11-month-old son Orson have become movie moguls in their own home.
Rotterdam
Festival is a fine hunting ground for MIFF
Vince Chadwick Melbourne International Film Festival creative director Michelle Carey is in Rotterdam to scout content, and to be challenged.
Short Cuts
AACTA spreads the love all year long
GARRY MADDOX AACTA plans regular Q&A; screenings; Ashes heads for the big smoke; Flickerfest hits the road.
Adults only
Downton Abbey to get 'adult' film treatment
MICHAEL IDATO Move over, Good Will Humping: here comes the adult entertainment industry's take on Downton Abbey.
Sundance
Australian wins directing award for debut
ED GIBBS Australia's Sophie Hyde has won the prestigious best directing award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Blackbeard ahoy
Hugh Jackman says 'aye, aye' to Peter Pan
PHILIPPA HAWKER Hugh Jackman has been cast as Blackbeard in a big-budget movie that imagines the origins of Peter Pan.
Inglorious
Quentin Tarantino sues over script leak
Quentin Tarantino is suing Gawker for leaking the first draft of the script for his planned movie The Hateful Eight.
Steve McQueen
'The past is absolutely about the present'
STEPHANIE BUNBURY His teachers told him he would never amount to anything. Now artist-turned filmmaker Steve McQueen is a serious Oscar contender.
I, Frankenstein
Monster leaves small footprint in US
KARL QUINN The much-delayed Australian-made horror/sci-fi film has finally lumbered into cinemas in America but has failed to wreak havoc on the box office.
AACTAs
The Great Gatsby scoops the ppol
GARRY MADDOX To Baz - a verb meaning "to gild or embroider an established thing until it sparkle-arkles; the process of transforming the commonplace into the fabulous".
AACTAs
Weaver wins lifetime achievement award
NICK GALVIN When Jacki Weaver learnt she was receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), she was a little dubious for two reasons.
Latest reviews
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
SANDRA HALL This is not exactly a free-wheeling adaptation of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, but it makes an honest attempt to get behind the stoic reserve.
Last Vegas
PAUL BYRNES A comedy about ageing and experience that is both dumber and a whole lot smarter than it at first appears.
12 Years a Slave
JAKE WILSON Director Steve McQueen seems oddly bent on detaching us from the intrinsic drama of his tale.
Utopia
JAKE WILSON There are limitations to John Pilger's polemical style of documentary, but it has its strengths too, as this look at Aboriginal disadvantage in the Nortthern Territory demonstrates.
Full coverage
12 Years as a Slave: A shared history of heartache
Jenny Cooney Carrillo Chiwetel Ejiofor's family connection to the men and women in 12 Years a Slave made it a tough shoot.
Robocop: Police state
Jenny Cooney Carillo It took a role in RoboCop for Abbie Cornish to finally gain her brother's respect.
Being Mrs Robo
Jenny Cooney Carillo Abbie Cornish wins extra family respect over her new role in RoboCop.
Film's testament to humanity, dignity
Jenny Cooney Carrillo Director Steve McQueen chose a lead actor for his personal qualities.
Movies, television
Gatsby would have danced all right - Luhrmann's epic wins 13 awards
GARRY MADDOX Just as it did at the box office around the world, The Great Gatsby has triumphed at the country's main film and television awards.
Movies
Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is in the mould of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies
Philip Horne With The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese is at work on our era's equivalent of the Bard's history plays.
50 Shades of Grey movie poster released
The movie isn't due to hit cinemas for more than a year, Valentine's Day 2015 to be precise, but that hasn't stopped its marketing machine getting to work.
Top 10 Films
Selected by Jake Wilson An ocker Cinderella stops at nothing to live out her dream of social success in Muriel's Wedding.
Columns
AACTA spreads the love all year long
AACTA plans regular Q&A; screenings; Ashes heads for the big smoke; Flickerfest hits the road.
Kick-ass chicks: the rise of cinema's mean girls
They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more: meet the tough-as-nails female heroes kicking butt all over the big screen.
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
Grand Budapest Hotel - cast of characters
Meet the cast of characters from Wes Anderson's new film, which recounts the adventures of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel.
The Wind Rises
In what he says will be his last film, Hayao Miyazaki tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
22 Jump Street
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.
Wolf Creek 2
The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-shooter Mick Taylor.
The Other Woman
When the girlfriend of a seemingly perfect guy discovers he has a wife, the two women team up with yet another of his "other women" to plot an ingenious revenge.
Interstellar
A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
The Past
Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, an Iranian man arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage.
The Battle of the Sexes
A look at the events leading up to the 1973 tennis match between retired men's champ Bobby Riggs and the current women's Wimbledon winner Billie Jean King.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany.
Walking With Dinosaurs
See and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth in this big-screen spin-off from the BBC series.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
The Railway Man
A victim from World War II's 'Death Railway' sets out to find those responsible for his torture. Based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax.
Drinking Buddies
Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) work at a craft brewery and have one of those friendships that feels like it could be something more. When they find themselves together alone for a weekend they have the chance to find out what exactly.
Are we officially dating?
Perennial commitment-phobe Jason and his co-worker Daniel are determined to help their devastated friend Mikey after he discovers his wife has been cheating on him.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
With the emergence of Electro, Spider-Man must confront a foe far more powerful than he.
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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.
12 Years a Slave
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery.
Her
Spike Jonze tale about a lonely writer who develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased computer operating system.
