This intimate portrait of iconic First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Jackie explores the artifice behind the images of the President's wife.

There was one surprise and one flop as the big movies opened on the biggest day of the year.

If you thought Will Ferrell's feel-good film Elf was about one elf's quest to find his biological father, you were wrong.

Have a guess which movie declared "leaden, implausible and witless" is the year's biggest dud.

Hollywood actress Carrie Fisher was in stable condition, her mother Debbie Reynolds said on Sunday, after the Star Wars star suffered a cardiac episode two days earlier on a flight from London to Los Angeles.

Hollywood heavyweights will descend on Australia in the new year as a number of blockbusters begin shooting around the country.

Except for an unusual musical, the best of the Boxing Day movies are aimed at families and kids this year.

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.

• ANALYSIS

​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.

This is the ultimate grumpy old man interview.

Our pick of what's showing on the big screen this week

• COMMENT

'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".