Behrouz Boochani recorded life inside the Manus Island detention centre for the sake of history.

The first feature film from Lucia Aniello, a key writer behind goofball New Yorker comedy Broad City, is disappointingly mainstream.

The two actors are appearing at Sydney's Supanova convention over June 16-18 and say they're always touched by meeting fans.

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A documentary follows two female Finnish backpackers as they confront the seedy underside of an Australian mining town.

Director Roger Donaldson's film McLaren is a fast-paced labour of love about a racing legend.

Anita Pallenberg, muse of the Rolling Stones and longtime girlfriend of Keith Richards, has died at 73.

Nick Broomfield's special subject is the lives of the rich, famous and dead.

An incendiary documentary about race is the frontrunner for the $60,000 prize.

A new film about an ex-bikie trying to reunite his family follows in the footsteps of Birdman.

There are some striking moments in this rather traditional biopic, but also some tedium, corniness and massaging of facts.

With the best story arcs already exhausted in previous instalments, this feels more like a drawn-out sitcom episode than a film.

It's crude, lewd and hilarious: Lucia Aniello's new comedy features a night out gone horribly wrong.

The Melbourne Film Festival will open with a thrilling true story of survival from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean.

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

The two-time Oscar winner is honoured for being a role model and supporter of causes as well as for her acting.

The Australian actor was everywhere on the Sydney Film Festival's opening weekend.

Co-stars including Steve Martin and Ryan Reynolds led tributes to the late actress.

It was only after film director Jennifer Peedom and Richard Tognetti began working together on their documentary Mountain that they realised they were seeing the same footage in radically different ways.

The Mummy revives the 1932 Universal Studios classic, but with a female twist and stunts aplenty.

Personal connections helped the veteran Scottish actor play Winston Churchill.

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Defence QC says the actor deliberately lied about her age and real name.

Prominent US entertainment voices have suggested record-breaking release Wonder Woman could be in the running for Oscar nominations, prompting talk the female-centric production could be the superhero movie to finally earn a major accolade from the Academy.

On the set of Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale.

'DMB' and 'DFI' are both bad news when film crews talk to each other.