Robbie Maddison has taken his stunt riding to a new level: he has traded ramps and jumps for Hollywood movies and water.

It's not just salaries and job opportunities that Hollywood's boy's club bogart for themselves – they're also stealing credit for female stars' work.

The director announced a competition to win a spot in the film, titled Isle Of Dogs.

The film is a quest fantasy rather than a love story, and strictly speaking the heroine Moana isn't a princess – though it's winkingly noted that she fits the mold, animal sidekicks and all.

Robert Zemeckis' latest film is an intricately woven throwback to Old Hollywood.

First it was Aquaman in Queensland. Now it's sci-fi thriller Stem in Melbourne. The country's film studios will be chockablock in the new year.

And now, in time for Christmas, the return of Australia's most beloved kelpie – albeit without Koko, the original star, who moved too soon to a higher plane in 2012.

Iggy - real name James Osterberg - has a surprisingly sharp memory for a punk legend but isn't the greatest of raconteurs.

IMAX accidentally uploaded a trailer for The Mummy with no sound effects to YouTube and the result is glorious.

Celebrities were not the only ones sucked in when Laura Albert wrote as an abused young man.

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​Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is officially a blockbuster, pulling in $155 million in its opening weekend and becoming the second-biggest movie launch in the franchise's history after last year's The Force Awakens.

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'Tis the season for Love Actually bashing but what you are really missing is the fact it is the greatest movie ever made.

San Francisco Hollywood stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford have appeared in the first trailer released for the long-awaited sequel to the 1982 film Blade Runner.

Films for all kinds of viewers are heading for cinemas on the biggest ticket-selling day of the year.

The film's visual effects team give "one of the best performances in Rogue One".

An emotional film based on a remarkable true story has had its Australian premiere.

The box office is impressive for Disney, but it's star Felicity Jones' pay cheque that's being called "a watershed moment".

Among the post-Christmas offerings is the film most likely to win next year's Oscar.

Australia now has a real shot at picking up an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category at next February's awards.

At the height of his acting career, the British actor has cited Donald Trump and Brexit among the reasons he has left Hollywood to focus on political activism.

Like most kids in Australia in the 1980s Chris loved dressing up as Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

First-night ticket sales in the United States of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story put the prequel on track to top the box office and post one of the biggest opening weekends of the year, validating Disney's strategy of spinning new stories and characters off of the sci-fi classic.