!["One day you'll be in <i>Star Wars</i>": Ben Mendelsohn at Sydney Film Festival.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/v/m/p/image.related.landscape.300x200.gwo6ka.gwh3pg.png/1497219681688.jpg)
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Danielle Macdonald gets a good rap in Patti Cake$
![Break-out role: Australian actress Danielle Macdonald as aspiring New Jersey rapper Patricia Dombrowski in <i>Patti ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/x/j/j/3/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwlevz.png/1496911112104.jpg)
How did a girl from Sydney's northern beaches get to play a rapper from New Jersey?
Why Terence Davies watched Cynthia Nixon without sound
![Sisterly bond: Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in A Quiet Passion.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/l/r/g/c/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwlri9.png/1496887009580.jpg)
The work of Emily Dickinson was a siren's call to director Terence Davies, who felt he had much in common with the American 19th-century writer.
Top Five Films: our pick of the best of the big screen
![Happy Feet from Australian filmmaker George Miller.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/l/n/g/c/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwlnc9.png/1496790397232.jpg)
What's showing on the big screen this week.
Festival documentary focuses on refugee's walk of hope
![Tom Zubrycki with Zacharia Machiek, the subject of his documentary Hope Road.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/l/m/m/k/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwlfal.png/1496904959093.jpg)
A documentary about a security guard on a 42-day trek to raise funds for a school in South Sudan premieres at Sydney Film Festival.
We shall fight them on the breaches
![Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson in Churchill.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/f/u/l/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwlff2.png/1497017748982.jpg)
Churchill: the knives are already out for this depiction of Winston at war.
The Mummy toys with Cruise's screen persona
![Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis get airborne during The Mummy.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/k/0/z/4/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwkkd4.png/1496889510839.jpg)
The threat to the world in The Mummy has the same banal familiarity as the last X-Men outing.
Menacing tale with present-day parallels
![Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin in <i>My Cousin Rachel</I>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/e/a/7/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwklgh.png/1497513815795.jpg)
My Cousin Rachel is a sharply astute take on Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel.
m10-film-shortCuts
![<b>Hotel Coolgardie:</b> misogyny with a smile.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/k/p/0/l/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwdev5.png/1496703501036.jpg)
SHORT CUTS: Hotel Coolgardie, Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, Kedi
Genocide saga told with familiar formula
![Christian Bale and Charlotte Le Bon play two sides of a love triangle in <i>The Promise</I>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/k/i/g/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwkijq.png/1496889815658.jpg)
This historical drama had a difficult road to the big screen.
Actor says Rebel's career 'slowed' after mermaid moment
![Rebel Wilson arrives at the Supreme Court in Melbourne on Monday.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/k/h/l/g/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwkklt.png/1496674407812.jpg)
Actor Hugh Sheridan tells court how Rebel Wilson's career slowed after a series of articles.
Wonder Woman breaks 'superhero glass ceiling'
![Wonder Woman has pulled in $300 million globally during its opening weekend.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/j/z/r/v/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwkd2b.png/1498108996397.jpg)
That ol' argument that female superheroes don't sell? Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman has given it a final death blow.
Wanted: $2.5m for 'definitive' Ned Kelly film
![Melbourne, May 18, 2001. The armour, including helmet and breastplate, of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly in its current ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/i/c/q/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwhh7d.png/1496584008835.jpg)
There's an ambitious new bid for another take on the story of Australia's most famous bushranger.
Why a gay law professor is trying to shut down women-only 'Wonder Woman' screenings
![Gal Gadot stars in Wonder Woman.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/8/b/1/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwjfcq.png/1496552906355.jpg)
Stephen Clark almost let it slide.
Olivia Newton-John set to star Sharknado 5
![Olivia Newton-John and daughter Chloe Lattanzi.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/e/9/v/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwiv30.png/1496376313289.jpg)
Olivia Newton-John is set to star in an upcoming sequel (and before you get excited, no, it's not a Grease revival).
Chloe Grace Moretz appalled by 'body shaming' ad
![Chloe Grace Moretz has said she was "appalled" by a billboard promoting her new film.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/h/t/i/o/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwht6b.png/1496378246849.jpg)
Actress Chloe Grace Moretz says she is "appalled" by a billboard promoting her new film Red Shoes and the 7 Dwarfs.
Imagination takes flight at festival hub
![Badfaith's Leo Faber (left) and Shaun Gladwell.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/7/3/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwhzk5.png/1496986437305.jpg)
Sydney Town Hall is about to morph into a fantasia of psychedelic puppets and androids, punk rockers and rollerskate dancers.
Pre-CGI footage from Beauty and the Beast looks a little less romantic
![The post-CGI appearance of Dan Stevens as beast looks markedly different to the pre-CGI look.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/1/y/5/9/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwhwsd.png/1496296941456.jpg)
Hilarious footage of Dan Stevens on the set of Beauty and the Beast has emerged, with the actor sporting a very different look.
Wenham shrugs off risk of shooting 10 day film
![David Wenham has made his debut behind the camera, with the release of the short film Ellipsis.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/h/6/l/d/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwh6jr.png/1496762550503.jpg)
David Wenham reveals himself as a filmmaker whose heart belongs to small, telling moments of human connection.
Dedicated followers of film
![Decades of fans: Cinemagoers outside the State Theatre on the Sydney Film Festival's opening night in 2002.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/o/6/n/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwgnm9.png/1496499431495.jpg)
For Evan Shapiro, the Sydney Film Festival is more than just a place to watch movies – it is an immersive experience. This will be his 29th year of attending.
Lebanon bans Wonder Woman because its star is Israeli
![Gal Gadot stars in Wonder Woman.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/8/b/1/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwhpwd.png/1496552906355.jpg)
Wonder Woman was pulled in Lebanon just two hours before it was due to premiere in theatres.
All in the family
![Annette Bening: "I had all these associations and memories that came flooding back."](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/j/g/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwhanb.png/1496385369777.jpg)
Director Mike Mills has mined his father's story for one of his intensely personal films; now it's his mother's turn, with Annette Bening inhabiting the role.
Rebel Wilson's mum tells court 'I accept I'm a bogan'
![Rebel wears tartan: Rebel Wilson appears outside court.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/y/n/i/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwhbch.png/1497510627254.jpg)
If you live in Sydney's western suburbs you are a bogan, a court has heard.
Redgrave on directing: 'I want to save lives'
![Vanessa Redgrave directed and features in the refugee crisis documentary Sea Sorrow, which she hopes will have an impact ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/f/v/9/t/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwf39j.png/1496498493214.jpg)
The acclaimed actor has taken a deeply personal approach to tackling the refugee crisis.
New footy comedy for team behind Backyard Ashes
![New footy film: Damian Callinan.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/h/1/v/w/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwfowx.png/1496243276712.jpg)
A country coach recruits a team of asylum seekers in a new Australian film.
Shari Sebbens on 'the horrible side' of the country
![Shari Sebbens: "Why would I want to audition for a film called <i>Australia Day</i>?"](http://web.archive.org./web/20170705211117im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/g/w/q/b/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwgmbs.png/1496454022528.jpg)
The Sapphires actress, Shari Sebbens, stars in a provocative film that takes place on a day of national celebration.
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