Conclave and The Brutalist top the UK’s BAFTAs
Conclave has won best film at Britain's film awards as the Vatican thriller and the period drama The Brutalist each scooped four prizes ahead of the Oscars.
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At the 2025 AACTA Awards, motion capture performances and voice acting have been recognised for the first time.
Netflix contender Emilia Pérez has picked up the largest number of nominations for Academy Awards.
The release date of Shrek 5 – starring Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy – has been pushed back six months.
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Is bigger better and is IMAX worth the big money?
So, how good is Canberra's new IMAX big-screen experience and is it worth spending up to $60 for a ticket? CityNews cinema writer SIMON COBCROFT takes a long, close look…
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Do the Heelers eat popcorn? TV hit Bluey becomes a film
Disney will bring a feature film version of the popular children's TV show Bluey into cinemas around the world.
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The Wizard of Oz ruby slippers sell for $US28 million
Dorothy's sequinned ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the beloved 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz, have sold at auction for $US28 million ($A43.8 million).
It was smiles all around when federal arts minister Tony Burke joined the National Film and Sound Archive retiring chair Caroline Elliott and CEO Patrick McIntyre to celebrate the archive's 40 years.
HELEN MUSA previews American director Stephen Soucy’s 110-minute doco, Merchant Ivory, showing at the British Film Festival.
The producer of Paddington In Peru says the late Queen Elizabeth II will feature in the new film.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA says the 2024 Italian film festival kicks off on Thursday with a glorious choice for opening night— a film called Gloria!
Nicole Kidman has been unable to receive an award for best actress at the Venice International Film Festival in person after the sudden death of her "beautiful, brave" mother.
Canberra is about to get only the third IMAX cinema screen in Australia when Dendy sparks up the laser projector on to a giant screen in November. But what is IMAX and where did it come from? SIMON COBCROFT has the answers.
One of the joys of the international film festivals is the experience of a different way of life and the Scandinavian Film festival’s screening of The Tundra Within Me is a perfect example, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Still fab after 60 years: ALISON BLAIR reveals how The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night made pop cinema history.
The steamiest movie of the year has almost no sex in it, says ALISON TAYLOR. How did Challengers do it?
On a recent Sunday afternoon, arts editor HELEN MUSA joined a crowd in Queanbeyan for Rebus Theatre’s screening of their film, Re-Emergence: Every Storm Gives Way To A New Sunrise.
From Hilde with Love, which will open the 2024 German Film Festival on May 7, is a movie about the Nazi era such as you may have never seen before, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Nicole Kidman has joined the ranks of Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro in receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
