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Fury Road breathes fresh life into post-apocalyptic desert festival
A long way from their Australian origins, the Mad Max movies have inspired a festival that just keeps growing in the Californian desert.
A long way from their Australian origins, the Mad Max movies have inspired a festival that just keeps growing in the Californian desert.
A new documentary charts the creation of The Baulkham Hills Ladies Troupe, a play by refugee survivors of conflict.
In her latest film, Athina Rachel Tsangari assembles six men on a luxury weekend fishing trip who, when they are not trying to spear fish, are jostling for supremacy with each other.
BP has criticised the new Deepwater Horizon film as being an inaccurate Hollywood dramatisation of the deadly oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Amanda Knox is the powerful Netflix documentary that unpicks the events following the murder of Meredith Kercher on November 1, 2007.
The female superhero has 'obviously' been in love with other women, says the comic's current chief writer
Expect car chases, crashes, throwdowns, putdowns and humour.
His latest film got a 10-minute standing ovation at Venice, and now Mel Gibson is in talks to star in a French spy romp.
It comes amid his pending divorce from Angelina Jolie.
Emily Blunt's metamorphosis into Rachel Watson, the ravaged alcoholic in The Girl on the Train burrowed deeper than a dowdy Hollywood makeover.
These women are newcomers to film or new to Australian audiences. They won't be unfamiliar names for long.
An offbeat take on X-Men has opened on top of the box office around the world on the weekend.
The British actress brings compassion to the role of Hester Collyer in Terrence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea.
Tm Burton's whimsical Gothic style has become so influential it's easy to take him for granted - but his later movies are often bolder and more disconcerting than his detractors would have you believe.
A new era of magic begins for Harry Potter fans.
The beloved animated film will be remade by Jon Favreau after his success with another live-action remake, The Jungle Book.
Life, Animated tells a story that's hard to credit, even harder to resist. It may offer hope to parents who are struggling to bring up a child with autism.
Beautiful cinematography, menacing characters, but doesn't fit easily into genres, confusing the audience.
Director Babak Anvari's acclaimed debut Under the Shadow was an idea born from everyday occurrence in post-revolution Iran.
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are bringing their Tony Award-winning Broadway roles to the small screen in what could be a serious Oscar contender.
Art's binding power to bring nations together is illustrated in this look at the Louvre in wartime.
The money side of the Hollywood equation is just the latest sign that horror officially owns the year. Creatively, it's also been a banner year for the genre, with a crop of entries that are more sophisticated, smarter and more beautiful (as it were) than ever.
Nudging its way onto a crowded marketplace, the Czech and Slovak Film Festival Australia (CaSSFA) arrives in Canberra for the first time this week.
Writer/director Jodie Foster will be honored with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at this year's Britannia Awards.
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