Film

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

As two giants of Hollywood’s culture-defining studios turn 100 this year – Warner Bros. and Disney – test your knowledge about their creative history

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

While no film can convey everything about nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer is a timely reminder of how fallible humans created the first weapons that could destroy our world

The new Barbie movie has renewed discussion about the message she sends and feminism – but it’s really just the fallacy of plastic role models

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

In the 1950s, the Hollywood Western came to Australia, but the cast and crew needed somewhere to stay. The South Australian government came up with ‘Zanuckville’

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

In 1982, Blade Runner floored audiences with its technodystopian depiction of the future. Almost 40 years on, some of these projections seem eerily accurate

The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is now a movie, but the poem itself already has a surprisingly contemporary message about tradition, modernity and our sense of self