The director of Bend It Like Beckham had Royal advice while making a film about India's turbulent history.

Veteran movie critic David Stratton will present his doco A Life in Cinema at the film festival.

The former Beatle will play 'Jail Guard #2' in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Small-chain cinema in Melbourne is adapting to a new reality: pricier tickets, bigger seats, property development backing.

Nicole Kidman is trying to ignore all the fuss surrounding her appearance in a whopping four projects going to the Cannes Film Festival later this month.

J.K. Rowling has pleaded for the return of a Harry Potter manuscript that has been stolen.

Playing James Bond made Lazenby a star. Refusing to play him again made him a nobody. A new doco explores the man, the myth and the aftermath.

During shooting of Alien: Covenant, Bondi Beach became Michael Fassbender's local. "I loved getting up and being by the ocean there. The town, the food, the people: it was my favourite location shoot for sure."

When it comes to US politics, at this point anything's possible – so why not President The Rock?

Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville courts controversy by taking on a divisive figure from India and Britain's shared history.

'Golden Balls' shows about enough dramatic range to have played the stone in which the sword is stuck.

Grandiose statements weigh down the thrills in this instalment of Ridley Scott's Alien franchise.

The director, writer and producer of Snatched says his work is a force for good.

Star's ugly fall from grace all started on the Gold Coast set of his upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the film's crew have revealed.

The director of Samson & Delilah is taking a bold look at the history of the Southern Cross.

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The film's fairytale style jars against the dark subject matter of Nazi genocide.

The Queen star is off to California after finishing a shoot in Melbourne.

Pork Pie is the tale of three accidental outlaws driving the length of New Zealand.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson leads the charge of buff bods in Baywatch, the movie.

The Alien franchise gave us a new type of hero in Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. Now, the mantle has been passed.

We've had already Molly, Hoges and Bondy, let's make coming TV shows on Olivia Newton-John, Shane Warne and the Easybeats the last.

The 'glurge' factor is amped up with reincarnated dogs and non-threatening values.

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

Short reviews of Pork Pie, Whiteley and The Zookeeper's Wife.