Cinema

The Melbourne International Film Festival showcases hundreds of films from around the world – here are five highlights to get you started

There’s no need to be overwhelmed by the movie schedule at the Melbourne International Film Festival with these hot tips

The cliché of the ‘sensitive’ woman filmmaker ignores the long history of confronting female-directed movies

Apple TV+’s best picture win for CODA crowned a night of important firsts at the Oscars, but what a streaming win means for the future of cinema is still to be seen

Special effects artist Genevieve Camilleri describes how her work makes movie monsters ‘real’ and her Best Visual Effects nomination for the 2021 Academy Awards

Cinema may have a lesson or two to teach us about how society can work together and collectively overcome shared threats like a pandemic

With remakes of Mulan, Dune, The Witches and The Invisible Man all due out this year, a new book answers the big question: what justifies a remake?

A new book explores the fraught process of taking on a TV or film remake, and why updating attitudes to sex may not always work

Less charming than Charlton, more eh-what-now than epic, the latest version of a cinema classic should be consigned to the annals of history

We can learn much from these 50 newly-released films by past students and today’s stars