At what point does a protective parent become a bad influence, asks a new film with Viggo Mortensen.

With three Australian films screening in the Venice Film Festival and four features and a short film at Toronto International Film Festival, September will be something of a bumper month for the local industry.

Australian filmmakers are adept at coming-of-age stories and deadpan comedies, but few have mixed the two together so successfully.

Paranormal Activity's directors return to log in to an online game with sinister mysteries.

Don't Breathe, a low-budget horror flick hailed by one critic as having the scariest scene since Silence of the Lambs, has made a blockbuster debut in the US, earning almost double its meagre budget in the first weekend alone.

Conservative media critics have been grumbling about Southside With You, Richard Tanne's movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, for nigh on two years now, complaining that the film represents an entertainment industry in thrall to the first couple. And so the folks at NewsBusters may be relieved by the final results: the film which opens widely this week, is weakened by its deference to the Obamas and knocked out by its failures as a romantic comedy.

When it comes to casting, even cartoons are whitewashing, by choosing white actors to voice lead characters. Thankfully, Disney's Moana will mark a turning point.

The world's 10 highest-paid actresses earned a combined $205 million over the last year, according to the Forbes annual list of actress's earnings.

The campaign against Leslie Jones, the African-American star of the Ghostbusters reboot, took an even uglier turn this week with a systematic attack on her online identity.

The two Australians are filming new movies but they have been overshadowed earningswise by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

The Slumdog Millionaire star plays an Indian-Australian man on a quest to find his mother.

An Australian actress has been tapped to play Britney Spears in an unauthorised Lifetime biopic on the Louisiana-raised singer's life.

Four days, numerous closed roads and a host of major Hollywood stars – Brisbane's stint as a movie studio is over... for now.

Bridget Jones returns with a baby. Renee Zellweger believes, two decades on from the first movie, we all still have so much to learn from the imperfect heroine.

The "Thornado" that turned parts of Brisbane's CBD into superhero-essential rubble is set to head back to the Gold Coast.

A former Beverly Hills, 90210 star, who is pushing for a new law requiring casting websites to remove birthdays, says actors face blatant age discrimination in Hollywood every day. 

Ben-Hur might have been a disappointment but film studios will keep turning back to stories that have worked before.

The BBC 's greatest film of the 21st Century is one featuring Australian actress Naomi Watts.

When Nate Parker's film The Birth of a Nation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and subsequently sold to a major studio for a $US17.5 million ($22.98 million) fee, it was heralded as the emergence of a major motion picture.

A landmark Sydney cinema will go dark next month for a rebuild that will take three years.

Whether you want a movie star, a filmmaker talk, a cult classic or or an offbeat film, it's all available.

Like so many remakes, this one never answers the basic question of why this story was worth retelling in the first place.

Of all risible elements here, the biggest is stupidity. Explorer Josephine Peary may have been headstrong, but she was no dope.

Matthew McConaughey's powerful presence is dampened by a slow cinematic style and underwritten characters.

Australia's chance for an Oscar rests with a unique South Pacific story of star crossed lovers.