In this feature debut from Zambian-born film-maker Rungano Nyoni, ancient superstitions and crass commercialism go into partnership to grotesque effect.

• UPDATED

Hollywood actress returns to court in Melbourne to fight an appeal by magazine publisher Bauer Media, which was last year found to have defamed the film star.

The actor improvised much of his dialogue from memories of his own days as a Marine.

While the first movie was proudly disreputable - five highway cops in rural Vermont are so bored they dream up pranks to play on each other and the motorists they victimise - the second is, surprisingly, more anodyne.

Your first reaction to Wild Wild Country, the six-part Netflix documentary about the rise and fall of an Indian guru and his followers when they relocated to America in the 1980s, will probably be jaw-dropping disbelief. And if the series did nothing else then it would still suffice as gripping entertainment: told with impressive clarity and an eye for telling details, it's overflowing with little-known but shocking events.

The former Marine, who made a career playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, has died.

The sad fact is most Australian movies are barely seen at the cinema. Would making ticket prices lower help?

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died on Saturday. He was aged 86.

• EXCLUSIVE

George Miller's production company claims Warner Bros "reprehensible" behavior has destroyed their "relationship of trust".

In the aftermath of its gravest scandal, the industry's culture is changing, albeit slowly.

• OPINION

The most dramatic part of the movie: trying to eat a hot fiddly meal while perched awkwardly on a reclining chair, in pitch-darkness.

The tameness of Truth or Dare illustrates how far mainstream horror has lost its disreputable edge.

Distracting from the scandals of today, Hollywood brings a tragic 1969 incident to the screen.

"The movie is silent and you're about to hear every crunch of popcorn [and] slurp of diet coke." 

After a rule change which singled out the streaming giant, Netflix has confirmed it is not attending the Cannes Film Festival.

Bigas Luna's daughter, Betty Bigas, and British-based academic Professor Santiago Fouz Hernandez will present a selection of films and a documentary on the Spanish director.

he Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society has some of Britain's best veteran actors in it – Tom Courtenay, Penelope Wilton – but 29-year-old Lily James is increasingly famous herself.

If Pablo Picasso had a blue period and the Beatles went through a psychedelic phase, then Chiwetel Ejiofor is currently going through his religious period.

Summer 1993, Abracadabra, Dying and Pan's Labyrinth.

Rated PG, 101 minutes

Any movie from the unpredictable Sally Potter is always worth seeking out because she'll try anything.

Based on a 1980s video game, Rampage does not encourage cerebral activity. It's big, loud and stupid and proud to be so.

"I don't care how the Minister of Culture perceives this film," snaps Andrey Zvyagintsev of  Loveless. The award-winning film is the devastating story of a couple on the brink of divorce whose son runs away when he hears them arguing about putting him in an orphanage when they go their separate ways. It is also a story about Russia. I meet the director and his actors at the Cannes Film Festival, where Loveless wins the first of many prizes. 

The undercurrent to the two-minute-plus clip seems to be: Let's assuage your concerns, dear viewer, about this once-troubled production.