Melbourne Cinémathèque hosts a season dedicated to the zesty, irreverent films of Dorothy Arzner, a pioneer female filmmaker whose career spanned the silent era into the 1940s.

Asghar Farhadi works in the tradition of the best melodrama, squeezing every drop of emotional tension from his characters, usually enmeshed in personal dramas of divorce, infidelity and sometimes terrible, random misfortune, that force them to confront their deepest fears.

The Melbourne Queer Film Festival kicks off this week with a guest director in attendance, a filmmaker who’s made two films starring and co-produced by James Franco.

The new King Kong movie is thrilling, funny and occasionally sublime — and beats Hacksaw Ridge as an effective depiction of war.

A fascinating insight into the life of a man who for more than two decades was this country’s pre-eminent broadcast film critic, alongside his TV co-host Margaret Pomeranz.

A thriller about shady dealings in the world of beachside real estate set in Recife in Brazil, starring the beautiful Sonia Braga as a woman facing down unscrupulous property developers.

This film brings to a close a trilogy about Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.

Jasper Jones has all the ingredients of a classic, but is not the coming of age story that's promised.

The Trainspotting sequel reunites director Danny Boyle with his original cast 20 years later and has a powerfully melancholy undertow.

A chat with critic Megan Spencer from the Berlinale.