‘A great deal of this actually happened,” reads the title card at the start of this action-packed historical epic. Possibly. But it’s unlikely that anyone
Category: Films
Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators
Barbenheimer. Gladicked. Deadpool & Wonkarine. The big movies of the past couple of years have been cash-splash smashes by mainstream directors loudly airing strong authorial
Spit, Magic Beach and a Crocodile Dundee redux: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2025
Australian cinema in 2025 will offer plenty of tasty treats, in a variety of genres and styles. In addition to the films on this list,
Kate Beckinsale says she has been ‘assaulted’ and ‘felt up’ on film sets
Kate Beckinsale, the British star of films such as Love & Friendship, Canary Black and the Underworld series, has posted a video on social media
Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025
We Live In Time We’re overdue a genuinely good romantic-comedy with a few drops of weepie thrown in. This could be it. Screenwriter Nick Payne
Justin Baldoni to reportedly file counterclaim against Blake Lively
The dispute between the actor Blake Lively and her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni looks set to intensify as a lawyer for him
Don Fairservice obituary
My friend Don Fairservice, who has died aged 92, was a creative film editor and film-maker. Active in his youth as an actor and set
Olivia Hussey obituary
When Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was released in 1968, it made the two lead actors, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey,
Jack Bond obituary
The Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí refused to cooperate with anyone wanting to make a film about him – until 1965, when he was finally
Father of the Bride and Baby Boom director Charles Shyer dies aged 83
Charles Shyer, the director of Father of the Bride and Baby Boom, who formed a successful comedy film-making partnership with his then wife Nancy Meyers,