Alan Ritchson as 81 in War Machine.

How War Machine flopped at box office and made big money for producers

It tanked at the box office. So what made War Machine’s Australian cinema run such a massive success?

  • Karl Quinn

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Charlotte MacInnes,left,plays a private school girl sent to stay with her country cousin in The Deb.

Why Rebel Wilson’s The Deb needs a post-Easter miracle to become a hit

The Australian star’s directing debut,a comic musical,finally lands in cinemas this week. But its arrival has been overshadowed by legal dramas.

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Kristen McLennan at her free-range chicken farm in Kangaroo Valley with filmmaker Ian Darling,whose documentary on silence and solitude a rural community will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June.

Three-hour Kangaroo Valley documentary is ‘a real escape from madness’

Ian Darling’s The Valley,which will make its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival in June,is about silence and solitude in a rural community.

  • Garry Maddox
Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

The Oscars are over. Here are the 12 big movies we can’t wait to see next

Family franchise sequels,buzzy horror counter-programming,stars getting their arthouse groove on,and blockbusters expected to gross $1 billion are all on the schedule.

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Kate Separovich (left) and Miley Tunnecliffe follow a long line of Aussie women working in psychological horror.

‘Our experiences are horror’:Why Aussie women make killer psychological horror movies

A new Australian horror movie has landed – and,like many of the hit local horrors before it,the film was brought to life by a team of women.

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US star Alan Ritchson as recruit 81 in War Machine,filmed in Victoria.

Made in Victoria,this sci-fi movie just topped Netflix film charts

The story of an angry giant alien machine intent on wiping out army recruits was shot in five locations across Victoria.

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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.

  • Garry Maddox
Lorraine Bayly has died aged 89.

Lorraine Bayly,who became ‘Australia’s mum’ in The Sullivans,dies aged 89

The Australian legend of stage and screen is being remembered as a “vibrant” and talented actor after her death on Saturday morning.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
The nine-part series,I Can Jump Puddles,was based on the life of Australian author,Alan Marshall. It was the story of his brave fight against polio and starred Adam Garnett as 11 year-old Marshall.

From Cop Shop to I Can Jump Puddles,Dobson had a hand in many old classics

Director Kevin James Dobson helped shape a formative era of film and television drama in Australia.

John Friedrich was the head of the Victorian division of the National Safety Council of Australia.

This ‘new’ SBS doco is great. But to one filmmaker,it’s oddly familiar

SBS’ series about conman John Friedrich is fascinating,but to Philippe Charluet,it looks a lot like a project he submitted to the network years ago.

  • Karl Quinn