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Sydney destroyed in X-Men Apocalypse
KARL QUINN Sydney is under attack in the final trailer for Bryan Singer's big-budget X-Men: Apocalypse.
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Captain America: Civil War
JAKE WILSON It's baffling that the studio has so far devoted three films to the Cap and none to Scarlett Johansson's more charismatic Black Widow.
A Month of Sundays
SANDRA HALL The style of Anthony LaPaglia's new movie is fast becoming extinct in Australian cinema.
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PAUL BYRNES When an old lady approaches a traditional Japanese snack seller for work, a story that is at once clear-eyed and sentimental begins to unfold.
Midnight Special
JAKE WILSON Director Jeff Nichols leads a talented cast in a supernatural thriller that serves as a deft display of craft and ambition.
Eddie the Eagle
CRAIG MATHIESON A biopic about the finest – and only – British ski jumper of his generation.
The Jungle Book
JAKE WILSON Floating downstream on Baloo's chest as he belts out The Bare Necessities might be a perfect vision of happiness.
The Huntsman: Winter's War
PHILIPPA HAWKER A prequel and a sequel rolled into one, The Huntsman: Winter's War is a clumsy patchwork of images, storylines and fabulous frocks
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Woody Allen reveals how he 'saved' his wife Soon-Yi in rare interview with The Hollywood Reporter
ANDREW STEPHENS 12:25pm Woody Allen has revealed how he kept himself immune from the scandal around his controversial relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his then-partner Mia Farrow: he worked right through and payed no attention.
Our pick movie of week: The Harder They Come (1972)
Doug Anderson 11:45pm Our pick movie The Harder They Come
The Blues Brothers to live on in a new animated series co-created by Dan Aykroyd
PETER VINCENT 8:39pm Cult American comedy The Blues Brothers is set to live on as an animated series.
Australians' rights to use VPNs should be enshrined in law: report
KARL QUINN 11:22pm The right of Australians to source cheap digital content from overseas should be guaranteed by the Parliament, a report has urged.
Mia Madre review: Nanni Moretti's meta new film muses on movies, mothers and mortality
PHILIPPA HAWKER Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti explored his own experience of loss in Mia Madre, but he decided that he wanted the movie-making character based on himself to be played by a woman
Star Wars, Disney, Warner and Paramount slammed in report on gay representation in Hollywood
ANDREW STEPHENS Star Wars needs gay characters, and three of the biggest studios are failing badly in that department, according to a new report on Hollywood diversity.
Captain America: Civil War blitzes the Australian box office
Captain America: Civil War has proved it is king of the jungle and mightier than Superman at the Australian box office.
Seven things to love in Captain America: Civil War that could have saved Batman v Superman
GARRY MADDOX As movie fans, we deserve to see these seven things in every Hollywood blockbuster.
Sarah Snook to narrate over black screen during censored documentary's world premiere
GARRY MADDOX Actress Sarah Snook has come to the rescue of a controversial documentary after legal action forced its makers to cut 15 minutes of footage before the world premiere.
"Quiet fury" will fuel artist Matthew Sleeth's film on Bali Nine execution
GARRY MADDOX A year on, an artist who ran prison workshops with Myuran Sukumaran plans a confronting look at the execution.
Ghostbusters trailer brings on the ire of misogynists
ANDREW STEPHENS Producers of the new Ghostbusters, with an all-female lead cast, should have seen the misogynists coming the moment they announced the reboot - but they couldn't have predicted the trailer, released in early March, would become one of the most disliked trailers in Youtube history.
Will Ferrell just says no to Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's disease 'comedy'
Jayme Deerwester Will Ferrell has seemingly bowed to pressure and withdrawn from a projected comedy in which he was to play a Ronald Reagan struggling with memory loss.
The stories behind von Stroheim's amazing career
CRAIG MATHIESON From Vienna to Hollywood, Erich von Stroheim's movie career spanned continents and eras.
Captain America – Civil War review: An energising shot in arm for Marvel movies
CRAIG MATHIESON The confrontation in Marvel's 13th superhero film in eight years is a geek's dream.
Cannes crime: wealth of the film festival crowd draws thieves and prostitutes
PAUL BYRNES The Cannes Film Festival's attraction for thieves isn't just obvious, it's flaunted on the TV news.
How the fashion world's biggest party, the Met Gala, is directed down to the last thread
As a new film about Anna Wintour's Met Gala reveals, fashion party hosts leave nothing to chance, says Bethan Holt
25 years ago, Thelma & Louise was a radical statement; sadly, it still is
Caitlin Gibson Women get far more nude scenes in movies; men get most of the dialogue. The domination of males in film has become so standard that most of us don't even notice it.
Women make a scene on the horror film circuit - and everyone should be afraid
JAKE WILSON A new wave of filmmakers is giving audiences goosebumps.
Our pick of what's showing on the big screen
JAKE WILSON THE SATURDAY MORNING ALL YOU CAN EAT CARTOON PARTY (180 minutes) Unrated
In his films, Prince sought to meld music and image into something more
Mark Olsen From the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Beyonce, Prince sits within a spectrum of musicians who have deployed the tools of cinema in service of their creative expression.
Doctor Strange shows why diversity advocates should take Chinese censorship seriously
Alyssa Rosenberg Some of the excuses for not casting people of colour in movies are worth hearing because they tell us more about what it's going to take to make Hollywood a more equitable place.
The First Monday in May documentary puts Anna Wintour under the spotlight once more
Matthew Schneier A new documentary on the annual Met Gala explores the marriage of art and commerce and the chilly wizards who decide who attends and who sits next to who.
Captain America Chris Evans keeps it civil in the superhero war
GARRY MADDOX Chris Evans plays a straight bat when it comes to a certain rival movie.
Mother's Day review: This is so unapologetically mainstream it's almost exotic
JAKE WILSON Much about the film is easy to mock but most disconcerting of all is the lack of drama: there are no villains nor any conflicts that can't be swiftly resolved.
Oliver Stone's Snowden: American whistleblower portrayed as hero in trailer
NICK GALVIN Director Oliver Stone has released a first look at his upcoming, controversial movie Snowden about American whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Feature documentary You and Me tells the inspirational story of surfer Barney Miller
LINDA MORRIS Barney Miller was a promising young surfer when he was left a quadriplegic following a high speed car accident. Seventeen years later he doesn't have a single regret.
Ab Fab
Absolutely Fabulous trailer is out - and Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley are heading to Australia
SARAH THOMAS Ab Fab is back, with Edina and Patsy on the run for accidentally murdering a certain supermodel in the movie version of the cult sitcom.
Geena Davis thinks Hollywood needs to get over its fear of female characters
Alyssa Rosenberg The Oscar-winning actress founded the Bentonville Film Festival to promote work by women and to get their movies the distribution that will put them in front of audiences.
Ghostbusters star Chris Hemsworth is 'a huge comedic talent,' says director
KARL QUINN His character is hired purely for his looks, but Chris Hemsworth was cast in Ghostbusters for his ability, says Paul Feig.
Captain America production designer urges Australia to flash cash at Hollywood
GARRY MADDOX Owen Paterson, who has worked on the Matrix trilogy, Godzilla and Gods of Egypt, believes the federal government should launch either a dedicated fund or a higher rebate for international movie productions.
Princes Harry and William join the Dark Side as stormtroopers in Star Wars episode VIII: report
PETER VINCENT Princes Harry and William are set to appear as stormtroopers in the next chapter in the Star Wars series.
Short Cuts
CRAIG MATHIESON Paranoia and mistrust echo through this tale of fractured suburban family life.
Columns
Mel Gibson to judge at Tropfest and more Australian film news in Short Cuts
Around Australian film this week.
Are dogs or cats better actors?
There's a very good reason why dogs have had a long history in movies, writes Paul Byrnes.
Trailers
Room
Based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue. A woman and her 5-year-old son are trapped inside a small space.
45 Years
As their 45th wedding anniversary approaches, a woman learns that her husband was once engaged to someone else.
The Danish Girl
Transgender artist Lili Elbe and talented wife Gerda Wegener lead a remarkable married life in 1920s Copenhagen.
Dirty Grandpa
Zac Efron and Robert De Niro star as an unlikely related duo setting out on a party-fueled road trip.
Anomalisa
From Charlie Kaufman, writer of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, comes Anomalisa. A stop-motion film about a man crippled by the mundanity of his life.
Trumbo
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's successful career in 1940s Hollywood is jeopardised when he is blacklisted for his political beliefs.
Miracles From Heaven
A family fights for a cure for their daughter, only to be mystified when it arrives.
Keanu
New film from comedy duo Key and Peele. Two friends hatch a plot to retrieve their stolen kitten by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.
The Big Short
A look inside the lives of the men involved in a worldwide economic breakdown - and won bets on it.
Looking For Grace
When rebellious teenager Grace takes off, her exasperated parents enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective and begin the long drive to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her.
Nasty Baby
Nasty Baby centres on a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly.
The Daughter
A man returns to his hometown after a long departure and discovers the costs of uncovering deeply-buried family secrets. The Daughter opens in Australian cinemas on March 3, 2016.
A Month of Sundays
One night Frank Mollard gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary. Apart from the fact that she died the year before.
