Perth Festival’s beloved Lotterywest Films season returns to Somerville with a globe-spanning program of award winners, hidden gems and bold new voices
Ben O’Shea
Elizabeth Lo’s astonishing film takes viewers inside China’s little-known “mistress dispelling” industry, revealing a story of heartbreak, dignity and emotional truth that feels almost too dramatic to be real.
Although he has not confirmed whether he will wield the claws again, Hugh Jackman has hinted he could return as Wolverine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Staff Writers
Rebel Wilson has made bombshell claims on 60 Minutes about the lawsuits surrounding the controversial production of her directorial debut film.
Blake Antrobus
Canadian actor Spencer Lofranco, best known for his role alongside John Travolta in mob movie Gotti, has died, aged 33.
Peta Rasdien
The follow-up to Chu’s record-breaking hit grapples with weaker source material and a darker tone, resulting in a visually stunning but emotionally uneven journey back to Oz.
Australian actor Cate Blanchett was among Hollywood A-listers to have a private audience with Pope Leo at the Vatican.
Crispian Balmer and Veronica Altimari
Is The Running Man the best film of the year? No. But if you want a solid popcorn flick, it does the job.
Nicole Kidman will star in the upcoming horror thriller The Young People.
Die My Love actor Jennifer Lawrence notices the difference working with female directors versus male, with the star chiding those who constantly exert control.
Rose Byrne gives the performance of her career in Mary Bronstein’s unflinching portrait of a mother barely holding it together.
Streaming services could soon be forced to make more Australian-based content under new laws to be debated in parliament.
Emma Kirk
Jodie Foster says The Silence of the Lambs didn't scare her but co-star Anthony Hopkins did.
Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated actress and mother to Laura Dern, has died at age 89.
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons light up Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest oddball experiment — a darkly comic sci-fi about paranoia, power, and the possibility that your boss may be an alien.
Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain, an animated series that costs $11,000 per episode to make, is being developed into a 90-minute movie.
Ria Pandey
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster have made a loving red carpet debut as a couple.
Kellie Balaam
Rebel Wilson claims she felt “uneasy” with an alleged power balance between a young actor — who is suing Ms Wilson — and a producer on her film “The Deb”.
Clareese Packer
Idris Elba is the US president with the world on the line in Kathryn Bigelow’s tense political thriller, A House Of Dynamite, where 18 minutes could decide the fate of humanity.
Kathryn Bigelow returns with a tense, hyper-realistic thriller that revisits Cold War nuclear fears, following the US government’s frantic 18 minutes after a catastrophic missile launch.
Channing Tatum closes the gap between actor and audience to a millimetre: When someone wounds him — whether with a punch or a rejection — you’re not watching it happen to someone else. It happens to you, too.
Kyle Buchanan
The Oscar-winning actress died on October 11 after her health declined suddenly.
Rock great Bruce Springsteen has joined the cast for the premiere of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere at the London London Film Festival.
Hanna Rantala
Channing Tatum proves he’s more than a lovable goof in Roofman, a stranger-than-fiction story of a man who robbed McDonald’s with manners and fell in love while hiding in a toy store.
