![Osamah Sami plays the lead role in Ali's Wedding.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/e/2/d/t/image.related.landscape.300x200.gxvyne.gxqz8p.png/1502762897426.jpg)
MIFF 2017
Movies
![Alice Foulcher stars as acting twins Polly and Amy Cuthbertson in <i>That's Not Me<i/>, directed by Gregory Erdstein. ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/7/3/5/1/image.related.wideLandscape.300x169.gy785p.png/1504159577055.jpg)
Psst, want to know how to make a movie for just $60,000?
This local pair's brand of heartfelt screwball comedy has won fans, and bears a striking resemblance to the work of the darlings of US indie cinema.
Troye Sivan to return to film in gay conversion drama
![Troye Sivan has been cast in Joel Edgerton's upcoming film 'Boy Erased'.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/o/t/a/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy7rkr.png/1504148205574.jpg)
Troye Sivan is set to star in Joel Edgerton's upcoming gay conversion therapy drama Boy Erased, alongside the likes of Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe.
Understated melodrama a cut above the rest
![Frank (Chris Evans) and Mary (McKenna Grace) share a special bond in Gifted.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/7/4/s/g/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy74t6.png/1504153459497.jpg)
Gifted is not your run-of-the-mill melodrama. More like an exceptional melodrama. It still plays the violin, if you get what I mean, but the violinist is skilful.
Ali's well that ends well in charming comedy
![Osamah Sami portrays a more nerdy version of himself in Ali's Wedding.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/7/3/r/w/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy73ul.png/1504153422346.jpg)
Australia has barely begun to mine the great stories within our migrant experience, which is odd and frustrating, given we have six million of them.
Cliched buddy flick ticks lowbrow boxes
![Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson banter their way through the action of 'The Hitman's Bodyguard'.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/1/j/z/l/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy6zpl.png/1504153510161.jpg)
Bodies pile up behind Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds in Australian director Patrick Hughes' The Hitman's Bodyguard.
Troubled soul hunts for love and life
![Josh O'Connor and Alec Secareanu star in the rural love story God's Own Country.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/m/t/g/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy71hx.png/1504153573173.jpg)
Francis Lee's first feature God's Own Country is a place he knows well.
Pinkett Smith on raunchy comedy breaking stereotypes
![Jada Pinkett Smith, is in Sydney for the premiere of the Hollywood comedy Girl's Trip. Tuesday 29th August 2017 SMH ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/6/i/w/c/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy6f70.png/1504145722582.jpg)
The American actor believes Hollywood deserves credit for finally recognising the value of movies centring on women.
Ed Skrein resigns from Hellboy reboot amid whitewashing claims
![Ed Skrein has withdrawn from the Hellboy reboot.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/6/h/x/8/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy6i03.png/1504146037074.jpg)
The former Deadpool and Game of Thrones star resigned from the upcoming Hellboy reboot after fans complained over his lack of Asian heritage.
Return of the replicants
![Ryan Gosling as K in Blade Runner 2049.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/5/m/a/8/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy5mvd.png/1504154530632.jpg)
Blade Runner 2049 has to offer something more complicated than bad guys smashing through a skyscraper window, but director Denis Villeneuve can do just that.
Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper dies
![Horror filmmaker Tobe Hooper has passed away, aged 74.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/5/b/m/j/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy5bkr.png/1504147889042.jpg)
Tobe Hooper, the horror director best known for helming The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist, has died. He was 74.
The deep pockets behind cycling's rags-to-riches story
![The team in action.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/5/h/m/r/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy5h2e.png/1503890308363.jpg)
The rise of Australia's road cycling team is a rag-to-riches tale, but it owes much to the support of one very wealthy patron.
Theatre cancels Gone With the Wind screening
![Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in 1939's Gone With the Wind.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/o/j/u/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy5es6.png/1503881693910.jpg)
The cancellation came after the rally by white nationalists at Charlottesville earlier this month.
Romper Stomper miniseries 'might not sit right', says star
![Lily Sullivan as Petra in the 2017 miniseries Romper Stomper.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/4/d/k/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy4d4h.png/1503795417091.jpg)
There will be skinheads in the Romper Stomper miniseries, but the real danger lurks elsewhere, says its creator.
Cult Australian film The Magician becomes a TV series
![Damon Herriman (left) and Scott Ryan in the TV series Mr Inbetween.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/4/1/9/b/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy2n3v.png/1503893561654.jpg)
Actor Scott Ryan had given up "on everything" ... but then he got a call from Nash Edgerton.
Purcell's The Drover's Wife dominates Awgie Awards
![Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife has won three prizes at the Australian Writers' Guild's Awgie Awards.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/9/j/7/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy46yn.png/1503755664380.jpg)
The re-imagining of a Henry Lawson short story has won three prizes.
Star Wars to launch new characters via technology
![Adam Driver will be back as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/y/e/s/x/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy3u3l.png/1504142650577.jpg)
Fans will be able to interact virtually with favourite characters.
Best of the box office
![In Damien Power's Killing Ground, Chook (left, Aaron Glenane) and German (Aaron Pedersen) are the visitors of every ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/w/u/s/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy3az6.png/1503642296743.jpg)
Film reviews: American Made, 47 Metres Down, Killing Ground and more.
Martin Scorsese set to produce 'gritty' Joker origin story
![Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/d/1/c/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy2vxb.png/1503554730955.jpg)
Why so serious? The Joker may be getting his own movie, that's why.
Some fin wicked this way comes
![Sinking feeling: You just know it's not going to end well.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/2/4/m/a/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy24p6.png/1503643131209.jpg)
47 Metres Down revels in its ability to renovate the cliches of horror in a new setting.
American Made review: A bold take on the US as global citizen
![Deft black comedy: Tom Cruise with Domhnall Gleeson (left) in 'American Made'.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/t/i/w/v/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy2bln.png/1503905145118.jpg)
Tom Cruise serves as an icon of the US in Latin America, but ultimately his character is not that interesting.
Film makes grisly link to colonial past
![In Damien Power's Killing Ground, Chook (left, Aaron Glenane) and German (Aaron Pedersen) are the visitors of every ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/w/u/s/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy25ii.png/1503643154909.jpg)
Damien Power's 'Killing Ground' is a low budget, worthy addition to Australian cinema's history of psychopaths.
Top five films: best of the big screen
![<i>The Wind Rises</I> fictionalises the life story of war plane designer Jiro Horikoshi.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/1/t/k/y/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy1tix.png/1503545777741.jpg)
Our pick of the best of what's showing on the big screen this week.
Chris Hemsworth is Australia's $40 million man
![Donning a cape and saving the universe continues to be good for Chris Hemsworth's bank account.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/s/q/m/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy203f.png/1503807524737.jpg)
Donning a cape and saving the universe continues to be good for Chris Hemsworth's bank account.
Lost City of Z: Up the Amazon
![Charlie Hunnam and Tom Holland under fire in the Amazon in 'The Lost City of Z'.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/x/z/8/l/3/image.related.landscape.120x80.gxypam.png/1503555644751.jpg)
Charlie Hunnam is no stranger to getting lost in his work, sometimes for months at a time.
Why Samuel L. Jackson couldn't care less about highbrow films
![Samuel L. Jackson: "Making people laugh is the essence of what [makes] people want to go to the movies."](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831131710im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/1/j/c/t/image.related.landscape.120x80.gy1gzl.png/1503963561976.jpg)
From Snakes on a Plane to The Hitman's Bodyguard, Hollywood's most charming actor has made it clear he's not interested in Oscar bait.
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