Still smarting from his Hollywood dream-turned-nightmare, Tim Minchin takes the stage on Saturday for his first Australian concert in three years.

The sunshine state has already lost two other major overseas productions, meaning $300 million has gone down the drain.

If the entire exotic adventure genre is built on an irresponsibility that no longer passes muster, why bother with a new Tomb Raider at all?

Portraying physicist Stephen Hawking in the 2014 biopic The Theory of Everything earned Eddie Redmayne an Oscar, and it also fostered a mutual respect between the actor and renowned thinker, who died on Wednesday at age 76.

It's our national symbol but the place of the kangaroo in the national psyche is complicated, and responses extreme.

As the song says, Australians love football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, but the Holden is gone and the 'roo population is heading the same way, according to this agit-prop documentary about the way we mistreat our most famous national symbol.

This biopic about the early life of Steven Morrissey is not based on the pop star's 2013 autobiography – which is probably a good thing.

"It just couldn't be any more Shakespearean," Rooney Mara muses. She plays the title role in Garth Davis' Mary Magdalene, which pieces together what is known of the life of the woman Christ arguably regarded as his most important disciple. The one thing most people "know" about Mary is she was a prostitute, but there is no evidence for this in the Bible.

When he was younger and working on as many as four films in a year, Aki Kaurismaki spent any free time he was able to gouge out of endless writing, shooting and editing in Helsinki's bars. Even by Finnish standards, he was and is a prodigious drinker.

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

Titanic director James Cameron will premiere a new exhibition focusing on his deep sea adventures in Sydney.

Rated M, 140 minutes

The success of "Black Panther" has been affirmative for black writers and artists in Australia. For black children, it could prove inspirational.

The iconic mobster television drama is being rebooted with a prequel film.

• REVIEW

The American war movie since 9/11 has had to sharpen up.

Lion director Garth Davis' sensitive portrayal of Mary Magdalene has hit a roadblock because of Harvey Weinstein.

Actor Rebel Wilson wants magazine publisher to pay the money she spent fighting a defamation case.

• OPINION

In 1978 something seismic happened. the movie Saturday Night Fever came out.

Five women on a complex expedition – it's trailblazing and, refreshingly, perfectly normalised.

Our reviews of some of the movies currently on release on the big screen.

Gulliver Oldman calls the allegation against the Oscar winner "false".

The Mercy is hardly the straightforward inspirational drama you might anticipate.

The percentage of female cinematographers on the box office top 250 sits at only 4 per cent.

The unpredictable world of Grace Jones is captured in a documentary.