The long-awaited Beauty and the Beast remake with Emma Watson is a mess of CGI from what appears to be a trigger-happy animation department.

The in-demand director is set to follow the release of his sequel Red Dog: True Blue with a documentary on legendary Brisbane band The Go-Betweens.

The search is on for a new director of the National Film and Sound Archive, with the announcement Monday that chief executive Michael Loebenstein has resigned.

For a first-time director, the premiere was "the worst experience ever".

Robert Redford says he is planning on retiring from acting soon to focus on directing and on his first love - art.

Arrival suggests that language might be our biggest challenge when aliens come to visit.

Is this a sign of things to come from Trump's America?

Another new world has sprung to life from the fantastic imagination of J.K. Rowling.

If we do not watch this with a mixture of fear and awe, all is lost.

Gabriel Mascaro's has a throwaway quality, a string of vignettes that never quite add up to a plot.

The "haters" were evident even at an Academy screening that received a standing ovation.

At turns cheerful, fearful and tearful, Amy Adams is having a very good year.

I'm talking to the phenomenally successful Tom Ford but – I'm sorry, I can't help this – in my mind's eye I'm seeing the Village People. In a good way, obviously.

Isn't it enough for Ella Havelka to succeed in an enormously taxing and competitive profession, without having to be a symbol as well?

Eddie Redmayne auditioned for a Harry Potter film role long before he landed one as the lead in the new Potter spin-off.

The scores for two very different films, the drama 99 Homes and the documentary Sherpa, have won awards.

Wit and common sense shine in Ken Loach's winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival.

A pair of bent cops are startled to find they still have a sense of right and wrong in War on Everyone.

Politics is rarely discussed but ever-present in Southside with You, a romantic drama charting the fabled first date of Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson.

A masterful use of tension runs through alien-contact film Arrival.

After the recent revelation that Wonder Woman is bisexual, actress Gal Gadot has revealed Halle Berry would make a perfect love interest in the sequel.

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Meet a baby bird whose adorable self-development journey easily eclipses Happy Feet's Mumble in the cuteness stakes.

Our pick of the best films showing on the big screen this week.

The director's been delving into the film's 'unpublished archives' on Instagram.