Top 5 Films
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Our pick of the best on the big screen this weekend.
Our pick of the best on the big screen this weekend.
It's something surprising that you won't see in the Legend of Tarzan. Director David Yates admits cutting a gay kiss scene from his recent Tarzan reboot.
For these characters, research into the paranormal is an intellectual adventure, maybe even a quest for beauty. But in the end, the ghosts are there to be busted.
The women take care of business with flair in this likeable remake of Ghosbusters.
Aussie stars are part of a $3 million groundbreaking program to encourage female film and TV talent.
Pokemon Go, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Ulzana's Raid, Grand Designs New Zealand, Bosch.
A gold-digger who's laughably blind to her own flaws is the centrepiece of a new movie take on Jane Austen.
By his own reckoning, Damian Lewis, as Hector in Our Kind of Traitor, is playing John le Carre – somebody who always wanted to speak the truth to authority but was compromised.
Joining a band could be a ticket out of the doldrums in this coming-of-age charmer.
Edina and Patsy in Ab Fab embodied "everything you shouldn't say and don't want to wear". Which is why Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley jumped at the chance to revive their alter-egos.
Extravagant characters hold the greatest appeal for Whit Stillman, director of an adaptation of the author's Lady Susan novella.
A call on Reddit to mount a campaign against positive reviews of Ghostbusters has taken a curious twist, reports Karl Quinn.
When the producers of the rebooted Star Trek decided the starship Enterprise's iconic helmsman Mr Sulu was gay, they no doubt prepared themselves for a fiery discussion on all sides.
After years of frustration, director Cris Jones describes getting any feature film made and on to the big screen as a 'hell of an achievement', writes Craig Mathieson.
Other up-and-coming filmmakers at MIFF 2016
Previously unreleased songs recorded by Michael Hutchence and a documentary on the last years of his life are set to be released over the next year.
The early reviews are in for Ghostbusters, and surprisingly it's not all slime and bile.
After Hours, Scandinavian Film Festival, Shakespeare on Film
Mr Sulu comes out in new Star Trek movie.
Betting markets on who will be the next James Bond have been shaken and stirred by the sudden emergence of British actor James Norton as a red-hot contender.
He may be king of the jungle, but Tarzan is a box office pauper, so why does Hollywood persist with remakes?
Eardrums were left ringing following the Australian premiere of Zac Efron's new movie, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
Alexander Skarsgard is practically Tarzan as Hamlet: there's no exuberance in the performance, even when he's back in the jungle swinging from tree to tree.
Can Marvel directors Joe and Anthony Russo pump more 'pulp, sex and violence' into the 1979 cult movie classic, The Warriors? They're certainly going to try.
New Zealand director Taika Waititi has tweeted the first picture from set of Thor: Ragnarok, which started filming on the Gold Coast on Monday.
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