Movies
Bond girl’s sizzling sister act
EVEN in a nun’s habit, actress Stephanie Sigman heats up the screen. ‘Who said a nun has to be unattractive?’ asks the Annabelle: Creation star.
Missing pieces in Notting Hill-style film
REVIEW: It’s based on a true story, but something is not quite right in the feel-good romantic fantasy Hampstead.
Creepy doll will toy with your mind
REVIEW: Despite coming from the same world as horror gem The Conjuring, creepy doll tale Annabelle: Creation can’t rise above its stale storytelling.
What Dirty Dancing’s Lisa looks like now
DIRTY Dancing was released 30 years ago this month. So what ever happened to Jane Brucker who played Baby’s sister, Lisa, in the hit film.
Basic Instinct audition is amazing
NOW this is a movie star. Sharon Stone has shared her audition tape for 1992 hit Basic Instinct on social media — and it’s better than some actors’ whole careers.
Ben Elton counting his lucky stars
SOME of Oz’s biggest stars are set to attend the premiere of Ben Elton’s new movie, Three Summers, at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Movies with gaping plot holes
THERE are countless movies with huge plot holes, but Reddit users have pointed out the ones that bother them the most.
J-Law: ‘I’m disappointed in myself’
JENNIFER Lawrence and Chris Pratt’s sci-fi double bill Passengers faced a backlash from viewers and reviewers alike. Now, the star faces her critics.
Joan Collins is having a sad old time
REVIEW: The Time of Their Lives is even more unappealing and unoriginal than its thin plotting suggests. Joan Collins should call it a day.
Valerian is a sci-fi sigh-fest
REVIEW: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a visually spectacular, narratively comatose sci-fi snoozer that cost $300 million. Ouch.
Too much Gore in An Inconvenient Sequel
REVIEW: An Inconvenient Sequel dampens our enthusiasm to do more about global warming by focusing too intently on Al Gore.
The Wall stands up under heavy fire
REVIEW: The Wall is a war movie every bit as different and diverting as the great Dunkirk, yet reduced to the most minimal scale imaginable.
Annabelle in the time of her afterlife
REVIEW: Annabelle: Creation is a middle-of-the-road origin story with just enough creepy oomph to have horror fans waking in the middle of the night.
LaPaglia shares his real-life fears
ANTHONY LaPaglia fights an evil doll possessed by a demon in his new movie Annabelle: Creation. But there’s something scarier right on his doorstep.
Joan Collins: ‘I’ve got nine lives’
AT 84, Dame Joan Collins is a showbiz survivor. She reveals her tricks of the trade and the message of her new movie, The Time of Their Lives.
Wind River is much more than a crime thriller
ON THE surface, it’s about finding the killer of a murdered girl but this film has so much more going on.
Judd Apatow spills on feud with Heigl
JUDD Apatow still hasn’t buried the hatchet with Katherine Heigl after she brutally dissed his 2007 film Knocked Up.
Moretz fat-shamed by male co-star
THE young actress reveals a male co-star put her down about her size so brutally, she ran away in tears.
Louise Nyvall is acting’s next big thing
PUT Louise Nyvall on the must-watch list because the 17-year-old star of Scandi-noir Farang will be making waves in Hollywood very soon.
Whatever happened to Dirty Dancing star?
IN the 80s, the world couldn’t get enough of Jennifer Grey after Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but not long after that she disappeared.
Sequel to influential film is devastating
THE original film in 2006 sparked a movement — everyone wanted in. A decade later, the momentum has halted and the sequel is hoping to recharge everyone looking for a better future.
Why Marvel actors aren’t given scripts
NOT even the actors starring in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War know how the movie finishes as the studio denies them a full script.
How most hated director rebounded
AFTER early hits like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, director M. Night Shyamalan became a Hollywood punchline. Somehow, he turned it around.
Lion to pounce on more awards glory
ALREADY feted with Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, Lion leads the charge of Aussie films in contention for the 2017 AACTA Awards.
‘Eating eggs as bad as smoking’
A POPULAR Netflix documentary that claims eating eggs is as bad as smoking cigarettes has been slammed by health professionals.
Leia’s surprising backstory revealed
THE Star Wars heroine will forever be one of the franchise’s greatest characters but there’s a part of her backstory that has fans excited.
Toni’s hilarious Muriel’s Wedding disaster
SHE can laugh about it now, but disaster struck for Toni Collette when she was filming the most iconic scene in Muriel’s Wedding.
Tara Reid’s Sharknado 5 secrets
TARA Reid has spent five years “screaming at nothing”, convinced giant sharks are attacking her. Now she reveals what’s coming in the next instalment.
Cara Delevingne’s sci-fi hot mess
REVIEW: Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan’s new comic book adaptation Valerian and the City Of a Thousand Planets has shades of Avatar and Star Wars.
