The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim has made "a car movie driven by music".

Quirky trends at the movies include the chance to watch Anchorman or The Lion King from a spa.

Dead men may tell no tales but Screen Queensland is determined to keep quiet about how much it paid for Disney to set course for Gold Coast studios.

Every generation reinvents the car movie to suit its own self.

Everything about 2017, from the resurgence of racism and sexism in public life to Ivanka Trump's star turn as Julie Nixon Eisenhower, feels retro. So it makes a certain amount of sense that I find myself looking forward with pleasure and apprehension to a new movie about an old toy: Barbie is getting another shot at the big time. The way she's getting it says a lot about adults' anxieties about children's stories.

• Review

Everything about First Girl I Loved is bold and fresh.

The Beguiled may be Sophia Coppola's weakest film, but it finds her trying new things.

Sleek car film Baby Driver is really a love letter to music.

Both Rogue One's Riz Ahmed and Lion's Dev Patel were considered for the role.

• MIFF

Jane Campion, David Wenham and more will attend this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.

Which Spidey – Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield or newcomer Tom Holland – and which movie is best?

Hollywood's search for 'the next James Bond' has ended right where it began – with Daniel Craig.

"Blindness is not a negative," Barbara Blackman says. "It is a different way of seeing."

Actress Zoe Kazan has spoken out about the entrenched sexual harassment on Hollywood film sets, revealing she was once asked by a producer if she "spat or swallowed".

With China pitching for studio movies, it's become even tougher for Australia to attract so-called runaway productions.

The pay gap between male and female stars persists, but some in Hollywood are taking matters into their own hands to eradicate it.

For filmmaker Sarah Barton, the diasbility rights movement isn't just political, it's personal.

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.