San Diego's police department have expanded their presence at the annual Comic-Con as almost 200,000 film, television and comic book fans descend on the city.

Director Oliver Stone has launched into an attack on Pokemon Go, calling the app "survelliance capitalism".

The final movie of the Divergent series will skip cinemas to debut on television with a spin-off series, after the previous instalment flopped at the box office.

With Ridley Scott finishing filming, the Rush Hour star arrives with a big Chinese film.

The latest Star Trek instalment, Star Trek Beyond, features some introspective moments for the crew of the USS Enterprise.

The director, producer, creator, writer and actor who died this week had a long career in television and movies.

A Las Vegas casino spree included "Hollywood Actor 1".

The fourth edition of Canberra's Stronger Than Fiction film festival is set to deliver 13 smart, cinematic films primed for Canberra audiences.

A first novel written while the author was working nights in a cinema has landed a big-time film deal.

Veteran Hollywood writer and director Garry Marshall has died at the age of 81.

A malevolent ghost appears as a outline in the darkness, but vanishes completely once the lights are switched on.

Alfred Hitchcock, won over by the admiration of Francois Truffaut, opened up for the younger artist as never before about his techniques and themes.

The Melbourne International Film Festival begins on July 28. Our reviewers offer their take on some of the highlights...

Anton Yelchin, a genuinely intelligent and promising actor whose sudden death is still hard to take in, makes young navigator Chekov into a real sweetheart in the film that is aptly now dedicated to him.

"I know what I can do and what my range is," says director Michael Rowe. "And my range is two people in a room."

The romantic comedy will revolve around two people who go on a catastrophically bad Tinder date but eventually fall in love.

Matt Damon likes to think of himself as the other guy in the room, in a universe where the other guy earns $US20 million for a 123-minute film.

The director of a new film on the Cronulla riots believes the country's 'casual racism' has festered and turned nasty.

Former X-Files actor Gillian Anderson has tipped her agent's FBI badge at Ghostbusters star Kate McKinnon in a recent show of female camaraderie using the Twitter hashtag #thefutureisfemale.

Try imagining ET without The Flying Theme, Star Wars without the Imperial March or Jaws without those brooding strings ...

The campaign against the all-female Ghostbusters has leapt the fence from misogyny to out-and-out racism.

The cast and crew of Embrace of the Serpent risked disease and deadly animals to shoot this odyssey through Colombia's Amazon.

Son of a Democrat, American director Whit Stillman loves the pomp, finery and frippery of Jane Austen's upper class England.

Martin Scorsese's splatter is gruesomely believable in this exhibition, which contains abundant material that is either part of the background, inspiration or development of his films.