“I Am Love was a political movie. Then you get asked to make movies about rich people f**king in linen beds with manservants.”

New York based critic Sheila O’Malley discusses the actress Gena Rowlands, who was awarded a lifetime achievement Oscar last November.

Melbourne Cinematheque programmer Eloise Ross picks her favourite from the upcoming Barbara Stanwyck season, The Lady Eve.

At its best, The Lady in the Van exposes the hypocritical, torn feelings many of us experience around the homeless.

I felt myself becoming less interested in the film’s carefully moulded suspense, more fascinated by the way its images – and its sounds – spoke so eloquently in the abstract.

Its whitewashing controversy aside, Gods of Egypt is an accessible, fun slice of entertainment from one of our most dynamic genre filmmakers - but can we call it an Australian film? Film scholar Ben Goldsmith on the cultural, industrial and financial impact of Hollywood films made here.

Admittedly it’s pantomime at times, but it’s saved by some laugh-out-loud acerbic humour.

Both films look at radical politics and repression in Hollywood's 'Golden Age'. A full review, plus David Walsh, a socialist critic, gives his view.

Rampling delivers a striking performance of English reserve slowly coming undone.

Has its moments, but it feels like a pre-Portlandia comedy zone.