Resistance kids in the grip of everyday Nazis
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.
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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.
Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson will reunite to star in a new Bridget Jones movie, titled Mad About the Boy.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson says she felt "disrespected" on the set of the 2016 comedy film Grimsby.
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Emotions high as Oppenheimer opens in Japan
Mixed reactions and high emotions have greeted the film premiere of Oppenheimer in Japan, where two cities were obliterated by the inventor's nuclear weapons.
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‘Classic horror’ marks Craig’s feature film debut
Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story, The Body Snatcher, the in-demand Canberra actor and videographer, Craig Alexander, has embarked on his first feature film, Snatchers, to be shot exclusively in Canberra during April.
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Star Wars droid head fetches stellar price at auction
A mystery buyer has snapped up a Star Wars artefact described as "one of the most recognisable cinema designs of all time".
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has won best picture at the Academy Awards.
The Alliance Française French Film Festival is grandly billed as the world’s largest showcase of French cinema outside of France and boasts 41 feature films, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Sam Mendes is slated to direct a series of biopics of the Fab Four, with each movie to give a perspective of the individual Beatles.
Atom bomb epic Oppenheimer has won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards.
Succession has picked up six Emmy awards, including the trophy for best actress in a drama series which went to Australia's Sarah Snook.
'Christmess' is undoubtedly one of the best Christmas films to emerge – from anywhere – in recent years, says ARI MATTES.
The 28th Canberra Short Film Festival kicks off on Thursday with an impressive student/under-18 showcase featuring no fewer than 23 films. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, says HELEN MUSA.
A moving, life-affirming film where traumatised ex-racehorses and military veterans get a second chance will have its Canberra premiere on Wednesday night.
British actor Sir Michael Caine, who has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that has spanned seven decades, says he has retired from acting.
"The Genius of Gianni Versace Alive" is likely to be one of the most popular offerings at the upcoming Italian Film Festival, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
There's a buzz in film circles as Canberra director and scriptwriter Jessica Beange prepares for the shooting of her 30-minute supernatural thriller, “Animal”.
End-of-financial-year tallying has revealed that the CBR Screen Investment Fund, managed by Screen Canberra, granted $498,832 to 10 screen projects and applications for the next round of funding has opened.
![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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