Jessica Chastain earned an Oscar nomination for her turn as a driven CIA analyst.

What's often called the world's biggest short film festival has moved west.

From overlooked black female mathematicians on the space program to overlooked white female astronauts.

Even before the iconic festival, a short about a huge barrier to refugees has won an award

It is profits, not security, that is driving America's military build-up in the Pacific - and we could all pay the price.

For supposed trash, Fifty Shades Darker offers a fair amount to ponder.

Denzel Washington shows the cracks in the persona of Troy, a black man denied in Fences.

A willingness to belabour the obvious can be a virtue, especially when the obvious truths in question are the kind we might be tempted to forget

Fancy buying yourself a Valentine's Day present?

T2 Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller tells why he's glad to have given up the celebrity game.

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to... a spoof?

When Christian Grey isn't stalking Anastasia Steele in 50 Shades Darker, a former submissive partner of Grey's is stalking them both.

It's a story familiar to Melbourne, Goodnight Brooklyn, an alternately intimate and loud documentary about a popular performance space overwhelmed by a corporate behemoth.

From the filthy lanes of London to the red carpet, James Bowen tells of tale of a bossy cat and stardom.

The filmmaker says he has discovered Lion isn't a piece of entertainment - it's an experience.

We all know that cats seldom do as they're told, which is why cat videos on YouTube have the charm of the unpredictable. Making a cat into the centre of a dramatic narrative is a bigger challenge, even for a veteran director like Roger Spottiswoode, whose experience with animal movies goes back to the 1989 man-and-dog comedy Turner and Hooch.

Fractures, broken bones, trips by ambulance to hospital and a singular devotion to the trailblazing martial arts actor bonded Jackie Chan's stuntmen.   

The memoirs of Judy Garland's second husband, Sid Luft, claims the child star was assaulted by munchkins on the set of The Wizard Of Oz.

A breakthrough movie for one of the shining lights of European cinema has the audience hooting with laughter.

Martin Scorsese's Silence is a study of the faith that has connected his films' holy men and unholy gangsters.

Michael Fassbender tries to wriggle out of the grip of his manipulative screen father (Brendan Gleeson) in director Adam Smith's Trespass Against Us.

Maren Ade is surprised her acclaimed new film is described as a comedy, writes Stephanie Bunbury.

Non-mainstream films showing around town include documentary about crucial Brooklyn venue.