The controversial Danish filmmaker was declared "persona non grata" at the festival in 2011.

It's a remarkable story about a remarkable girl, but not everyone is convinced The Eagle Huntress is entirely true. Director Otto Bell responds to his critics.

She's no Dev Patel in Lion, but this film is no end-of-year Oscar bait either.

One of the stalwarts of public radio broadcasting will soon be no more, and its host is furious.

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski forbade his cast from enjoying themselves on the set of his new horror movie for fear they would ruin the tension.

Josh Gad, the actor behind the LeFou, is in Sydney for the film's premiere and says 'What controversy?'

The iconic cue card scene from the 2003 feel-good hit Love Actually is making a comeback.

Some things about the original King Kong were so wrong, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts does a good job with this enjoyable adventure flick minus the racial and sexual subtexts.

German awards show gives La La Land prize to fake Ryan Gosling following incredible prank

"Suitably epic, exotic"

African multi-tasker Inna Modja wants to show not all walls are sinister.

The pressure is on for everyone involved in the $US160 million ($210 million) film adaptation of the classic animated movie Beauty and the Beast.

There are some lessons for superhero movies in Hugh Jackman's final Wolverine movie.

Our pick of the best of the big screen this week.

A second critics organisation has overlooked Hacksaw Ridge, Goldstone and The Daughter for its top prize.

An Iranian director draws on an American classic to find common ground between two flawed cultures.

This enjoyable biopic uses Australian films to tell the story of Stratton's life – and some of the parallels might catch you by surprise.

The French-Canadian director is just shy of 28 and already has six feature films and numerous prizes under his belt.

The actor passed away on February 25, aged 61.

A new film paints a loving and complex portrait of Australia's most famous film critic, by reference to his favourite Australian movies.

The latest take on King Kong has a barbed sense of humour and a sharp eye for disaster.

David Stratton's passion for film is traced in this documentary on the critic's life and work.

Feelgood is a word unlikely ever to find its way into this Oscar-winning director's vocabulary.

A recycled comedy for a generation raised on much-raunchier R-rated American fare.