Film
Songbird official trailer starring KJ Apa
A mutated strand of coronavirus called COVID-23 wreaks havoc on the world in Songbird, produced by Michael Bay and starring KJ Apa. Watch the trailer.
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Arts
House of horror: Home-made movie grips its audience in real time
Director Michael Beets creates his 'live' horror movie from a desk in a Melbourne suburb – and he has never met his cast.
- by Nick Miller
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'I love desperate people': Call Me By Your Name director takes on TV
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino trusted the instincts of his youth actors in this eight-part coming-of-age drama.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Movies
Kajillionaire movie trailer
Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins star in the new Miranda July movie.
Movies
Mangrove movie trailer
Director Steve McQueen’s Mangrove is part of one of five films from the Small Axe anthology.
Pop culture
The 'holding out for a hero' generation
Is the deluge of superhero movies doing more harm than good?
- by Nina Metz
S magazine
How Caitlin Moran flipped the script on teenage heroines
When it came to turning her memoir into a movie, the award-winning British journalist drew up a list of everything she hadn't seen in female coming-of-age films.
- by Lenny Ann Low
Good Weekend
'The Dressmaker' was a stressmaker – but it brought two friends together after 30 years
Writer Rosalie Ham and producer Sue Maslin attended boarding school together in the 1970s. They lost contact for 30 years, until Sue read Rosalie’s debut novel and turned it into an award-winning film.
- by Susan Horsburgh
US votes 2020
'Beyond cringe': Rudy Giuliani caught in hotel scene in new ‘Borat’ film
The scene shot in a New York hotel room — which resulted in Giuliani calling police — includes a moment when he is seen lying on a bed with his shirt untucked.