Ben Affleck delivers an inferior version of what could be called Once Upon Another Time In America.

Danielle McDonald has gone from practising rapping with a New Jersey accent in her wardrobe to being dubbed a break-out star of this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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All workplace deaths are tragic, but a death in the service of our entertainment seems especially so.

Next chapter will pick up where The Force Awakens left off.

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The great Australian playwright has a movie as well as a television drama on the boil in the US.

Derek Zoolander, Batman and Superman did battle with movie critics and more dishonors might be on the way.

Melbourne filmmaker Kitty Green's documentary about the mysterious murder of the child beauty queen premiered on Sunday.

When The Lawnmower Man was released in 1992, Virtual Reality was the stuff of science fiction. Now VR is real, so what better time to remake it.

He's back. Well, sort of. 

The awards-season contender has had the biggest opening of an independent Australian movie ever at the local box office.

By keeping its budgets manageable and targeting young audiences with plenty of high jinks and humour, the animation studio is building its own identity and success.

"What happened is every filmmaker's worst nightmare". Equipment overheats during world premiere screening.

As her father enjoys his first day of post-presidential unemployment, Barack Obama's eldest daughter Malia is moving into the film business.

Johnny Depp has thanked fans for standing by him through "good times or bad" as he was honoured at the People's Choice Awards.

Just imagine if social media had been around in 1999 for M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: Everybody breaking down its twists, opening-day memes with Bruce Willis as a ghost, the inevitable hashtag #ISeeDeadPeople.

The upcoming family film from Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom is facing backlash from dog lovers and animal rights groups.

Aussie director Alethea Jones lands prestigious nomination ahead of the festival.

On opening day for the acclaimed Australian drama Lion, the author of the memoir A Long Way Home said he was planning to keep watching it too despite the intense emotions that keep flooding back.

In the leadup to the announcement of Oscar nominations on January 24 here's a final speculation on some of what the major categories might bring.

Yep, he's seen it alright.

Australia has at least one contender in 13 out of the 23 categories when the nominations are announced.

With a sense of humour, Vin Diesel continues to be more interesting to watch than most movie musclemen.

The Australian drama conveys both beauty and pain.

Cross-dressing aside, our archetypal hero remains, fundamentally, a good bloke.