A reviewer roundup of some of the movies on release at the moment.

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

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

Being an actor can be downright humiliating.

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

Baldwin wanted desperately for his country to deliver on its promise. So does a whole new generation of his fans.

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

After a five-year legal stoush, JRR Tolkien's estate has settled its $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros.

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Her famous surname might have had its advantages, but these days Francis Ford can wait.

Tom of Finland is screening at this month's Scandinavian Film Festival.

Sami Blood director Amanda Kernell knows what it's like to grow up being Sami in Sweden.

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

Best of the Scandinavian Film Festival - our top 5 picks.

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.