In a big week for Australian film, Martin Freeman has joined Helen Mirren among the big-name international actors shooting in Australia.

When you think of science fiction it doesn't take long to arrive at Captain Kirk, phaser guns, warp drive and Star Trek's USS Enterprise.

Everyone with a love of classical theatre will want the opportunity to see this play of such sinister glamour and stabbing, impassioned treachery.

Clint Eastwood's direction does justice to Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his remarkable plane landing.

Patrick Dempsey's sanguine step into the Bridget Jones juggernaut.

The Secret Life of Pets has all the strengths and weaknesses of big-studio feature animation: it's loud, strident in comedy and action, lacking in real character development, but sufficiently plausible to attract good opening weekend grosses.

Roles for women, minorities and the LGBT community were still at 2007 levels, the report from the University of Southern California found.

Before the new Red Dog hits cinemas, its director is making a provocative film about who we are as a country.

Making Girl Asleep was a leap into the unknown for theatre director Rosemary Myers and writer Matthew Whittet, but it paid off in spades.

The arts sector is facing more upheaval with a potential restructure of Arts NSW and Screen NSW.

The film of a man bringing up his children in an alternative lifestyle is let down by contradictions in both characters and script.

The movie, based on the true story of a US Army medic who entered battle without bearing arms, received a rare 10-minute standing ovation.

In his BBC documentaries Louis Theroux is able to immerse himself in various subcultures, but his doco on Scientology is not his finest hour.

Our pick of films showing this week.

Once touted as the next Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now, he is working hard to redeem himself, he says in a wide-ranging interview.

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Daniel Craig, who has already starred in four films in the Bond franchise – Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre – is being offered a reported $US150 million ($198 million) to stay with the franchise. But is he worth it?

Belgian filmmaker Michael Duduk de Wit was invited to create an animated feature film by Japan's revered Studio Ghibli. The result was the award-winning The Red Turtle.

Nick Cave's way of dealing with his son Arthur's death, says Andrew Dominik, was to work.

Oscar-winning Gravity was awful and, no, you can't see the Great Wall of China from space, says former NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins.

He famously said he'd rather slit his wrists than play James Bond again, but the franchise isn't done with Daniel Craig just yet.

Oscar-winning actor Helen Mirren looks set to film in Australia for the first time in almost 50 years in a surprising role that is sure to raise hairs on the back of audiences' necks.

The story of Panti Bliss, the alter ego of Rory O'Neill, is told in a powerful - and bizarre - documentary,

The world premiere of Australian-American film Hacksaw Ridge has earned positive reviews for its much-maligned director Mel Gibson at the Venice Film Festival.

The movie tells the survival story of a mute woman called Liz, played by Dakota Fanning, who is stalked by a vengeful preacher.