There are strange echoes in the latest on-screen role for Brad Pitt of his recent off-screen dramas.

Director Peter Berg's much talked-about movie is the "Titanic with more fire and oil, and no class divisions".

The actor who was the stormtrooper Finn will star in and co-produce the big budget movie.

They couldn't finance their first film finance in Australia so they went to the slums of Manilla during typhoon season.

After the sumptuous Russian Ark, director Aleksandr Sokurov explores another great museum in Francofonia.

Ros Horin's documentary about making a play with women refugees is at times culturally uncomfortable.

From Rocky to The Magnificent Seven, how and when movies and their reboots are made can point to the state of politics and society in the US.

Emily Blunt looks anything but glamorous yet she still fails to win us over as the heavy drinking, stalking protagonist Rachel Watson from Paula Hawkins' novel.

The third Da Vinci Code movie is released by Ron Howard who has Dan Brown on hand to rewrite the script as he directs.

Filmmaker Sotiris Dounoukos' screen adaptation of Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation chronicles a case of sadness and tragedy.

Our pick of what's showing this week.

Why you should relax when it comes to the next movie about the Caped Crusader.

Michael Palin says he and the other members of the Monty Python comedy troupe will rally around Terry Jones as he battles dementia.

According to one critic, The Girl on the Train movie 'landed with a splat'. But another insists it's 'chillingly real'.

A glimpse at the fifth instalment features Javier Bardem and Australia's Brenton Thwaites but no Johnny Depp.

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.

It's billed as a book adaptation, but a film on a student's killing of her boyfriend takes a far more dispassionate line on the case.

How the industry is creating "an express lane" for female talent.

There's a lot of running to do when you're racing to save the world, as Tom Hanks knows all too well.

Pedro Almodovar captures minor moments with vast repercussions in his latest film, Julieta.

Three incomplete women are united in trying to make sense of their lives in The Girl on the Train.

A long way from their Australian origins, the Mad Max movies have inspired an unusual festival that could be heading this way.

A new documentary charts the creation of The Baulkham Hills Ladies Troupe, a play by refugee survivors of conflict.

Under the Shadow is a compelling mix of political repression and suggestive myth.