Culture
Movies
Pierce Brosnan trades licence to kill for sheriff’s badge in revenge tale
New western The Unholy Trinity, shot in Montana, has an unlikely Australian connection.
- by Karl Quinn
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This modern homage to Jane Austen is genuinely charming, but it’s no Clueless
Set in Paris, the film is a romantic comedy featuring Jane Austen fan girl, Agathe.
- by Jake Wilson
Amid conflict at home, Iranian director wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident has been awarded the $60,000 prize in a competition for “audacious, courageous and cutting-edge” films.
- by Garry Maddox
The highs and lows of the Sydney Film Festival
After an opening night attraction that lived up to the hype, there was a lot to enjoy and the odd disappointment.
- by Garry Maddox
These vacant railway yards at Redfern could be our next film mega-studios
Filmmakers, architects and investors are believed to be backing a plan to transform an industrial site into a facility to make new film and television content.
- by Linda Morris and Michael McGowan
As Jaws turns 50, who is the blockbuster’s real hero?
Steven Spielberg’s saga of man v shark is not the film you remember.
- by The Economist
Celine Song blew us away with Past Lives. Is Materialists a perfect match?
Billed as a rom-com, the Dakota Johnson-Chris Evans-Pedro Pascal love triangle is actually a rather hard-headed look at marriage.
- by Karl Quinn
Dragon live-action remake maintains a safe distance from reality
Writer-director Dean DeBlois evidently sees no need to mess with what worked in the past in this new version of How to Train Your Dragon.
- by Jake Wilson
Opinion
Web culture
Why Mountainhead’s ‘tech bro’ satire rings eerily true
A new movie from the creator of hit series Succession has shown us what happens when AI and social media are unregulated.
- by Julia Baird
‘Not remotely similar’: Lawyer for Aussie film slams copyright lawsuit
The team behind Aussie body horror Together were sued by a US filmmaker alleging copyright infringement last month.
- by Nell Geraets
Hollywood studios sue AI company over ‘unauthorised’ Darth Vader and Minions copies
In a legal first, Disney and Universal have accused Midjourney of “pirating” their libraries to make copies of the Star Wars villain and other iconic characters.
- by Shawn Chen and Matt O'Brien