A 15-year-old Peter Parker adds some sugar to the franchise but not much depth of flavour. Fans will lap it up anyway.

The Trump administration has famously prompted renewed interest in dystopian novels including George Orwell's 1984 and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Their might be asburdities in the plot but you have to admire what Patty Jenkins has done with the latest superhero hit.

Nicole Lucas Haimes' first feature is a film about chickens and people, simply called Chicken People.

Forget the Battle of Five Armies, another epic showdown has finally come to an end.

Headspace has issued a warning for the controversial new Netflix movie To The Bone, citing concerns over the film's depiction of anorexia nervosa.

Barry Norman, the veteran British movie critic and former host of the UK's top TV show about cinema has died at the age of 83.

Australia's female cinematographers are increasingly shaping the way we see the world.

The trailer for Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle was released overnight, and it's sparking generational wars.

Trevor Graham's film Life of an Island Man celebrates the life of Eddie Mabo

The trick to enjoying recent Hollywood comedies lies in managing your expectations, but they'd have to be low indeed for you to get much satisfaction from The House.

Australians Rebel Wilson and Chris Hemsworth have been inducted into the Oscars voting collegiate, along with 774 other entertainment industry leaders.

A Hollywood casting announcement we can all get behind.

William Oldroyd​'s Lady Macbeth is no riff on Shakespeare. Set in England in the middle of the 19th century, it's an adaptation of Nikolai Leskov​'s 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Move over, Kevin Spacey.

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, who starred in the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo films alongside Noomi Rapace, has died from lung cancer. He was 56.

At 50, the actor says she will always want to be jumping off the cliff with the abandonment of a 21-year-old.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul sees writers Bowers and Kinney pick up where they left off.

There is nothing our assassin heroine can't do, it seems, except have a happy life.

''Right place, right time,'' says Lady Macbeth star Florence Pugh about her fledgling career.

There's a wise-cracking, fun-loving guy inside the modern Spider-Man, says Tom Holland.

The veteran director of A Beautiful Mind and Frost/Nixon takes the helm of the troubled Star Wars Han Solo spin-off film today.

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South Korean director's super-pig movie Okja expected to be a Netflix blockbuster.

The classic 1987 Australian coming-of-age story The Year My Voice Broke screens this weekend at ACMI.