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‘We’ve depleted our reserves’: MIFF offers $10 tickets to lure back audiences

‘We’ve depleted our reserves’: MIFF offers $10 tickets to lure back audiences

The Melbourne International Film Festival faces its third consecutive loss, but its inaugural CEO insists it’s not about to collapse.

  • by Karl Quinn

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Rebel Wilson’s latest film withdrawn as actor lashes producers

Rebel Wilson’s latest film withdrawn as actor lashes producers

Wilson has accused the producers of her directorial debut film of “viciousness”.

  • by Helen Pitt
There’s no flying cow, but this Twister sequel is still highly ridiculous

There’s no flying cow, but this Twister sequel is still highly ridiculous

Forget the sexual tension, Twisters is at its best when Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones are dodging an inventive variety of heavy objects.

  • by Sandra Hall
Emma Stone returns for another wacky film, but sadly this is no Poor Things
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Emma Stone returns for another wacky film, but sadly this is no Poor Things

If the filmmaker’s much-praised, award-winning Poor Things was the main meal, Kinds of Kindness is the offcuts.

  • by Robert Moran
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s NASA comedy fails to take off
★★
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Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s NASA comedy fails to take off

As a marketing whiz and an astronaut, the stars have zero chemistry in the wildly overextended and flat rom-com Fly Me to the Moon.

  • by Jake Wilson
‘We had $0 in the bank account’: How a little Australian thriller went from zero to hero

‘We had $0 in the bank account’: How a little Australian thriller went from zero to hero

It was a film festival hit, but for the writers and directors behind Birdeater, it was four years of rain, sweat and tears.

  • by Louise Rugendyke
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The Twisters reboot has no right being this good

The Twisters reboot has no right being this good

And charismatic star Anthony Ramos is a key part of its winning equation.

  • by Robert Moran
Brad Pitt as an F1 driver? The race to make the perfect driving movie

Brad Pitt as an F1 driver? The race to make the perfect driving movie

Hollywood has gained a new obsession over the past five years: movies about Formula 1 racing.

  • by Nell Geraets
Feel like everyone is smoking on screen again? You’re not alone

Feel like everyone is smoking on screen again? You’re not alone

From Austin Butler in The Bikeriders to Josh O’Connor in Challengers, cigarettes have been inescapable at the cinema recently. What’s driving the revival?

  • by Meg Watson
Sorry, but Kevin Costner’s new western is both incomplete and dull
★★½
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Sorry, but Kevin Costner’s new western is both incomplete and dull

The Oscar winner has returned to directing after 20 years, but Horizon – set to be one of four – is exposition-heavy and a three-hour-long trek to nowhere.

  • by Jake Wilson
Age-gap romantic comedies are back. Here’s why that’s good – and bad

Age-gap romantic comedies are back. Here’s why that’s good – and bad

Older women have been dating younger men on-screen for decades. What do these movies tend to have in common?

  • by Nell Geraets