The Measure of a Man, After Hours, Independence Day: Resurgence

Tropfest is back in 2017 with the acclaimed Australian film director lending support.

Her career had triumphs and disappointments but the veteran star still enjoys memories of her most famous film.

In time for the school holidays, Steven Rea offers his shortlist of excellent big-screen interpretations of kid-lit classics abounding with magic, adventure, danger and delight.

Jane Austen has done well enough, but if she wanted to be really popular with modern audiences, she would have found a way to incorporate the living dead into her work.

According to the academy's figures, the new class is 46 per cent female and 41 per cent people of colour.

Thirteen Australians are among the record 683 new members being recruited to diversity the membership of the Academy.

Hailed as "The Commitments, only better", John Carney's latest movie should have him in a haze of self-congratulation. But the opposite is true.

A season of 17 films by one of the greatest living film-makers shows there's more to him than violent, masculine dramas.

Alexander Skarsgard's toned abs are real, but everything else in The Legend of Tarzan is a seamless blend of fact and fiction.

If you're fond of dogs, children, Alpine scenery, or the French, the fantasy retains a good deal of charm – enough, perhaps, to make up for the lack of anything resembling an original idea.

As ever, director Steven Spielberg seems aware of his own darker side, but is keen to gloss it over. Still, The BFG is worth seeing as a showcase for its maker's sheer dexterity.

It's been 12 years since we last saw Bridget Jones on screen. This time she is pregnant and no wiser to the father's identity.

The Measure of a Man is a dry, grinding kind of story, too mannered by half to convince as naturalism, or even as slice of life.

More than ever, it seems hard for Hollywood to make a straight-up character comedy without a big, unbelievable plot gimmick, preferably involving shootouts.

Our pick of the weekend's screenings.

It is langurous and beautiful but this movie involves a lot of waiting and not a lot of clarity.

Alexander Skarsgard makes a dashing, if earnest, Tarzan but there's no real sense of conviction at work anywhere.

Rihanna has been work, work, working on a new song that will feature on the latest Star Trek film. 

If you're not looking up to the sky in fear after watching these alien-invasion movies, then maybe you are the alien.

The love triangle in new movie Maggie's Plan reflects how getting what you want mightn't always be what you really want.

The energy between Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart save this action comedy.

Director Ivan Sen's talent for edgy dialogue lifts this outback thriller – a sequel to Mystery Road.

She encountered bitter controversy over not being black enough for one of her recent roles and believes the world has a lot to learn from the colour-blind approach of the Trekkies.

"We were turned down by every studio, that's not easy for me. Every studio. We were financed out of France and Germany. A small North American distributor that did 'Spotlight' last year, Open Road, came in with us. It's a journey, it's been a long one," Stone explained.