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How this filmmaker went from selling knives to working with Glen Powell
In John Patton Ford’s second feature film, How to Make a Killing, Hollywood star Powell goes on a killing spree for wealth. The story is based on more truth than you would think.
- by Nell Geraets
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Police shot this footage. It put a woman in jail. Now it could win an Oscar
The Perfect Neighbour is composed almost entirely of footage shot on body-worn cameras – and now it’s up for cinema’s biggest prize.
- by Karl Quinn
I watch people bake and save lives. Am I addicted to competency porn?
As the world slips its moorings, shows like The Pitt celebrate the steady course.
- by Brodie Lancaster
New movies to watch: Glen Powell’s dark comedy, a Charli XCX mockumentary, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein and a docudrama
Welcome to our weekly wrap of what’s new in cinemas.
- by Sandra Hall and Jake Wilson
From Blacktown to Palm Beach, how films have captured Sydney’s changing character
The Art Gallery of NSW launches its new Cinematheque with a season harbour city film, beginning with Gillian Armstrong’s Starstruck.
- by Garry Maddox
Desire, detective work and disease: the French Film Festival has it all
Famous faces line up alongside new discoveries in this year’s feast of Gallic cinema.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Jim Carrey responds to wild clone theories following rare public appearance
The veteran Truman Show star received an award in France last week. Online speculation quickly spiralled into claims an impostor had taken the 64-year-old’s place.
- by India McTaggart
The Oscars race has been blown wide open by this unexpected win
Formerly known as the SAG Awards, the Actor Awards have just wrapped up, and there were some big twists along the way.
- by Nell Geraets
An Oscar certainty? One Battle After Another secures key PGA award win
Did the Producers Guild of America just reveal the best picture winner at the Oscars? Two decades of data says probably … almost certainly yes.
- by Michael Idato
Justice for Jacob: The awards the academy is too cowardly to give
We need rich and beautiful celebrities to be mildly humiliated for our viewing pleasure.
- by Jenna Guillaume
Why this video of ‘Brad Pitt’ and ‘Tom Cruise’ brawling has Hollywood alarmed
Hollywood’s elite are sounding the alarm as Seedance 2.0 proves AI can generate cinematic blockbusters from a single prompt. Is this the democratisation of film, or a death knell for human creativity?
- by Nell Geraets