!["One day you'll be in <i>Star Wars</i>": Ben Mendelsohn at Sydney Film Festival.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/v/m/p/image.related.landscape.300x200.gwo6ka.gwh3pg.png/1497219681688.jpg)
Sydney Film Festival
Movies
![MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15: Australian actress Rebel Wilson smiles out the front of the Victorian Supreme Courton ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/r/x/a/7/image.related.wideLandscape.300x169.gwrjp7.png/1497538034460.jpg)
'I had to take a stand': Rebel Wilson set for big payday
​Hollywood star Rebel Wilson stands to make millions after winning her high-profile court battle.
The smartphone movie that had to be filmed in secret
![Behrouz Boochani](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/k/3/2/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwrt1w.png/1497537992570.jpg)
Behrouz Boochani recorded life inside the Manus Island detention centre for the sake of history.
Rough Night is a rough first feature from Broad City writer Lucia Aniello
![TKate McKinnon, left, and Scarlett Johansson in a scene from "Rough Night."](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/2/z/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwrmu5.png/1497540586978.jpg)
The first feature film from Lucia Aniello, a key writer behind goofball New Yorker comedy Broad City, is disappointingly mainstream.
Back to the Future's Doc Brown and Biff Tannen reflect
![Back to the Future (1989) took on the idea of time-travel.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/n/m/b/o/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwr221.png/1497534920967.jpg)
The two actors are appearing at Sydney's Supanova convention over June 16-18 and say they're always touched by meeting fans.
Hotel Coolgardie review: Dark outback doco raises questions about objectivity
![Hotel Coolgardie follows two female Finnish backpackers in an outback mining town.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/y/a/i/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwqwyw.png/1497544810341.jpg)
A documentary follows two female Finnish backpackers as they confront the seedy underside of an Australian mining town.
McLaren and the need for speed
![Roger Donaldson, director of the <i>McLaren</i> documentary.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/q/p/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwqqqe.png/1497482238597.jpg)
Director Roger Donaldson's film McLaren is a fast-paced labour of love about a racing legend.
Actress Anita Pallenberg dies at 73
![Anita Pallenberg walks the runway at the Pam Hogg show at Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/r/9/x/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwr9ug.png/1497453078778.jpg)
Anita Pallenberg, muse of the Rolling Stones and longtime girlfriend of Keith Richards, has died at 73.
How fame swallowed Whitney
![Whitney Houston in June 1988. Director Nick Broomfield theorises that part of the reason the singer/actor was so unhappy ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/h/s/2/y/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwqtya.png/1497540115835.jpg)
Nick Broomfield's special subject is the lives of the rich, famous and dead.
I Am Not Your Negro is Sydney Film Festival frontrunner
![Writer James Baldwin in <i>I Am Not Your Negro</i>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/m/b/x/z/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwq6qj.png/1497438836552.jpg)
An incendiary documentary about race is the frontrunner for the $60,000 prize.
Thriller Watch The Sunset takes the one-shot approach
![One-shot Australian film: Tristan Barr and Chelsea Zeller in <i>Watch The Sunset</i>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/4/9/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwq37k.png/1497438982175.jpg)
A new film about an ex-bikie trying to reunite his family follows in the footsteps of Birdman.
All Eyez on Me review: Overcooked Tupac biopic glosses over unsavoury truths
![Demetrius Shipp Jr as Tupac.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/w/o/j/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwqv2e.png/1497510780981.jpg)
There are some striking moments in this rather traditional biopic, but also some tedium, corniness and massaging of facts.
Despicable Me 3 review: Third act of favourite franchise falls flat
![The ever popular Minions steal the show yet again in Despicable Me 3.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/r/9/j/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwquxv.png/1497511679324.jpg)
With the best story arcs already exhausted in previous instalments, this feels more like a drawn-out sitcom episode than a film.
Friends in low places
![Party time: Zoe Kravitz, Jillian Bell, Scarlett Johansson, Illana Glazer and Kate McKinnon in <i>Rough Night</i>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/2/z/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwq3j5.png/1497502891805.jpg)
It's crude, lewd and hilarious: Lucia Aniello's new comedy features a night out gone horribly wrong.
MIFF kicks off with Harry Potter lost in Jungle
![Jungle stars Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg, a young Israeli who becomes lost in the Amazon.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/a/r/9/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwqaky.png/1497456887298.jpg)
The Melbourne Film Festival will open with a thrilling true story of survival from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean.
Top five films: our pick of the big screen
![Two of the creatures from Pandora in the film Avatar.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/q/9/l/f/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwq87k.png/1497347747029.jpg)
Our pick of what's showing on the big screen this week
Companion of the Order of Australia for Cate Blanchett
![Honoured ... Cate Blanchett.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/x/q/i/n/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwo0n7.png/1497228464826.jpg)
The two-time Oscar winner is honoured for being a role model and supporter of causes as well as for her acting.
'One day you'll be in Star Wars': Ben's renaissance
!["One day you'll be in <i>Star Wars</i>": Ben Mendelsohn at Sydney Film Festival.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/v/m/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwo6ka.png/1497219681688.jpg)
The Australian actor was everywhere on the Sydney Film Festival's opening weekend.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels star dies at 62
![Glenne Headly with Michael Caine and Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/k/4/1/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwojyo.png/1497098821092.jpg)
Co-stars including Steve Martin and Ryan Reynolds led tributes to the late actress.
Mountain: the drama and the beauty
![Unique Collaboration: Jennifer Peedom with Richard Tognetti.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/i/2/8/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwo30g.png/1497586345759.jpg)
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: More than Tom Cruise running, it's a female-empowering horror-laden thriller
![Sofia Boutella revisits Boris Karloff's menacing Mummy in the new Universal thriller.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/4/7/e/0/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwm6h0.png/1496918567978.jpg)
The Mummy revives the 1932 Universal Studios classic, but with a female twist and stunts aplenty.
Brian Cox on playing a troubled wartime leader in Churchill
![Brian Cox as Winston Churchill and Miranda Richardson as wife Clementine in <i>Churchill</i>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/f/u/l/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gw7m84.png/1496969677087.jpg)
Personal connections helped the veteran Scottish actor play Winston Churchill.
Wilson's character smeared by Bauer Media's legal team, says actor's barrister
![Rebel Wilson arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/n/6/u/l/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwn6fq.png/1496917082751.jpg)
Defence QC says the actor deliberately lied about her age and real name.
Wonder Woman earns surprise Oscar buzz
![Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/j/z/r/w/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwmx8u.png/1496959761316.jpg)
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.
The Handmaid's Tale: a newly resonant dystopia comes to TV
![Women stripped of their rights and forced to bear children for the elite: Elisabeth Moss (left) as Offred and Alexis ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/l/o/3/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwlm1e.png/1497069203775.jpg)
On the set of Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale.
From the martini to the meat puppets, the strange language of film sets
![Illustration: John Shakespeare](http://web.archive.org./web/20170616091151im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/h/k/s/j/image.related.landscape.120x80.gwgot1.png/1496905064982.jpg)
'DMB' and 'DFI' are both bad news when film crews talk to each other.
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