Queensland
News in Brief: Major film festival updates, La Brea films in Vic, and Epic lawsuit continues
It's a big week for film festivals with a new director for BIFF, MIFF opening apps for 37 South Market…
A Vision Splendid of a delighted Australian audience
Hostile to Australian films? The good folk of Winton want a word with you.
Captain America: Civil War
Dissecting an ideological divide among superheroes, Captain America: Civil War thrillingly balances heaviness, heart, and humour.
Lyle
Part homage, part subversion, Lyle proves a thrilling and gripping updating of a tale first told in Rosemary's Baby.
Coming Home
The reunion of director Zhang Yimou and actress Gong Li is just one of many in elegant but melodramatic historical…
The Owners
A surreal telling of life and land in Kazakhstan, steeped in both tragedy and comedy.
Melbourne
Familiar in form but effective in impact, Iranian drama Melbourne dreams big but stays small in its domestic drama.
White Reindeer
Zach Clark’s different kind of holiday film looks at the unhappy flipside of what is supposed to be the merriest…
Human Capital
Paolo Virzì's thriller of societal commentary always feels both diverting and calculating – and that's no accident.
Hard To Be A God
Intricate in texture yet clouded in dusty bleakness, this is Russian science fiction at its most disquieting and hypnotic.