Swiss artist Daniel Zimmerman's Walden has been called a virtuosic slow road movie that explores human impact on the environment through a series of slow-panning 360-degree shots of a fallen fir tree in Austria, and its journey across the world to the Amazon.

A team from the UK says it has developed a method that predicts with 85 per cent accuracy whether an actor has had the most productive year of their career already, or whether their best is still to come.

Poetic and achingly beautiful, this is a film with a wry and wise vision.

HBO's five part series Chernobyl is the unlikely ratings hit of the moment, a show that dramatises the catastrophic nuclear events in Soviet Ukraine of 1986 and the attempted cover-up by authorities.

A look at HBO's small screen depiction of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and whether it adds much value to the TV landscape. Plus, as Sydney Film Festival kicks off we meet the Australian directors of two queer coming-of-age feature films premiering at this year's event, and Swiss artist Daniel Zimmerman who has made an art film called Walden, a formally impressive debut about nature and globalisation.

A look at HBO's small screen depiction of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and whether it adds much value to the TV landscape. Plus, as Sydney Film Festival kicks off we meet the Australian directors of two queer coming-of-age feature films premiering at this year's event, and Swiss artist Daniel Zimmerman who has made an art film called Walden, a formally impressive debut about nature and globalisation.

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival has wrapped and we're joined by critic Luke Goodsell, fresh off the plane from the South of France, to talk about all the big winners, controversies and highlights from this year's event.

After sitting in mothballs for years, the Capitol cinema in Melbourne will reopen this week.

Lauren Carroll Harris speaks with actor and writer Ryan O'Connell about his Netflix series Special, and also meets Sarah Scheller, co-creator and writer on the Australian series The Letdown.

Jason Di Rosso meets director Dexter Fletcher and speaks to him about working with Elton John in the new biopic Rocketman.