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Cate Blanchett to lead Cannes film festival protest
Australia's Cate Blanchett will be among the 82 women set to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival to highlight the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the festival's competition lineup over its 71 years.
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Life of the Party review: funny moments and an earnest message
Parts of the film are like a female Animal House, but the heart of the film is about McCarthy the den mother empowering her brood of beautiful but vulnerable younger sisters.
- by Paul Byrnes
American Essentials Film Festival: With cinematic masterpieces from the '60s and '70s
The retrospective "Postcards from LA" section will screen Chinatown, Heat, Shampoo and Killer of Sheep.
- by Jake Wilson
Films in brief: BPM (Beats Per Minute), Thom Andersen's America, Bye Bye Germany
BPM is French writer and director Robin Campillo's compelling new film.
- by Craig Mathieson
Ryan Reynolds: a man of the year and a nervous wreck talks Deadpool 2
'I have anxiety, I've always had anxiety ... and I've been to the depths of the darker end of the spectrum, which is not fun.'
- by Cara Buckley
Wicked thrills fuel a very English battle in The Bookshop
There are few novels more quintessentially English than Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, which parses the workings of class, politics and power via the slender story of a woman trying to open a village bookshop where other people think she shouldn't.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
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Obituaries
Acclaimed Indigenous actor Tom E Lewis dies aged 59
His family said in a statement he will be greatly missed.
- by Garry Maddox
Top five films – best of the big screen
Our pick of what's showing on the big screen this week
- by Jake Wilson
Gender equality
'So naive': Weinstein's estranged wife breaks her silence
Georgina Chapman explained her reasoning for staying out of the spotlight since the allegations against Weinstein came to light.
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Sydney Film Festival
Hostage fears as Australian film is shot secretly in Afghanistan
Director Ben Gilmour and actor Sam Smith needed all their courage to shoot the film "Jirga".
- by Garry Maddox
Marvel
Real-life Law & Order: LA police investigate missing Iron Man costume
An elite squad of detectives will investigate.This is their story.
- by Broede Carmody