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NewsAustralia's Scandinavian Film Festival Announces Full 2017 Program
See 20 features from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland — including the winner of the Silver Bear for best director at this year's Berlinale.
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NewsSydney Film Festival Adds Three Days of Bonus Screenings to Their 2017 Lineup
The Back by Popular Demand program gives you one last chance to see the most popular films of the festival.
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NewsBreaking Bad Is Coming Back as a Virtual Reality Experience
Prepare to follow in Walter White's footsteps.
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NewsSydney Film Festival Adds Seven Cannes Titles to Their 2017 Program
Hope you've got some room on your flexipass.
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NewsSydney's Inner West Is Getting a New Community Cinema
The independent screening space will host sessions by local community groups and indie film festivals.
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NewsStudio Ghibli Is Building Its Very Own Theme Park
The Totoro-themed park is scheduled to open in 2020 — and if it doesn't feature a catbus, we'll eat this susuwatari.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these potent westerns, horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsA List of All of the Wes Anderson Films, Ranked
No one makes movies quite like Wes Anderson, so we've revisited and ranked them all — even though every single one is a gem.
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NewsIt's Eurovision Time: Here's When You Can Watch 2025's Song Contest (with Tony Armstrong and Courtney Act Hosting Australia's Coverage)
This year's Australian entry: Go-Jo with the song 'Milkshake Man', which is being performed with a four-metre-tall blender as part of the set.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes movies about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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GuideThe Best Free Events to Catch During Sydney Festival 2025
Sydney Festival is saving your wallet this summer with a cost-of-living defying program of free events throughout January.
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NewsTen Must-See Films at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival
Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie as nuns, Netflix-produced monster movies and the debut full-length feature from Afghanistan's first female filmmaker.
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NewsFive Films from Cannes 2017 We Can't Wait to See in Australia
Now showing in French Riviera cinemas between May 17 and 28, and hopefully coming soon to a screen near you.
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NewsThis Short Film Competition Gives Filmmakers the Chance to Work With Dominic West
Write a killer seven-page script and The Wire's Jimmy McNulty could star in it.
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NewsSession Time: What's On in Sydney Cinemas This Week
These are the just-released films you should spend your pocket money on this week.
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NewsSydney Film Festival Announces Stacked 2017 Program
See Sofia Coppola's new Civil War thriller, Ben Mendelsohn play a convicted sex offender and a slew of stars in an Austin music scene-set love story.
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NewsThe Creators of Wallace & Gromit Are Coming to Australia
Peter Lord and David Sproxton will help launch ACMI's massive Aardman Animations exhibition with a series of talks and masterclasses.
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NewsThis Is Your Chance to Cruise Through Vivid Sydney on a Pirate Ship
All in celebration of Starz's Black Sails, of course.
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News'Wet Hot American Summer' Is Being Turned Into a Role-Playing Game
Make your dream of stepping into the 2001 cult hit a reality with this crowdfunded tabletop game.
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NewsHow Modern Filmmakers Are Tackling the Complex Topic of Psychological Manipulation
With the release of Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome, we look at how victims and perpetrators of psychological abuse are portrayed in modern film.
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NewsFive Must-See Films at the 2017 Spanish Film Festival
Our picks from the 39 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to a sumptuous period piece and a classic cat-and-mouse thriller.
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NewsAmerican Essentials Film Festival Reveals Indie-Focused 2017 Program
Two Greta Gerwig films, Australia's own Bond and Ewan McGregor jumping behind the camera rank among the second-year festival's 31 titles.
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EventFirst Nations and Australian Fine Art Auction at Art Leven
Fri, 15 May - Tue, 19 May 2026
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Woolloomooloo
Presented publicly for the first time, the collection headlining this auction and exhibition captures a lifetime of advocating for First Nations art.
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EventAvatar: Forms of Vishnu
Sat, 20 Jun - Mon, 5 Oct 2026
Naala Badu Building, AGNSW, Sydney
This massive exhibition explores the many forms of the Hindu deity Vishnu, as depicted in 200 works that span 1500 years.
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EventBastille Festival
Thu, 16 Jul - Sun, 19 Jul 2026
Circular Quay, Sydney
Warm up this winter — this four-day soirée is taking over Circular Quay and The Rocks with French food, wine and entertainment.
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EventPyrmont Festival
Sat, 23 May - Sun, 24 May 2026
Pirrama Park, Pyrmont
The annual event returns, and it's once again bigger than ever, welcoming flavours and makers from all over NSW to Pirrama Park alongside games and entertainment.
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EventSheltering at the Sydney Opera House
Wed, 3 Jun - Sat, 13 Jun 2026
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney
Bangarra Dance Theatre returns to the Sydney Opera House this June with Sheltering, a powerful triple bill exploring First Nations stories and connection to Country.
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EventSydney Comedy Festival at Bondi Pavilion
Wed, 6 May - Sun, 17 May 2026
Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
Experience two weeks of world-class comedy by the sea at Bondi Pavilion.
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EventTwo Door Cinema Club at Hordern Pavilion
Sun, 22 Nov, 2026
Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park
Having just announced a second Sydney show, this era-defining indie-dance band will perform their acclaimed debut album in full.
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EventBeck with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Thu, 7 May - Sat, 9 May 2026
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
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EventPatricia Piccinini's 'Centrifugal Love Garden' at Passage Gallery
Fri, 6 Mar - Fri, 8 May 2026
Passage Gallery, Haymarket
On display around-the-clock, this acclaimed artist's latest work spins organoids, penguins and possibility into a vision of a symbiotic future.
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EventSydney Symphony Presents Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone In Concert
Wed, 2 Dec - Sat, 5 Dec 2026
Concert Hall, Sydney
Step back in time to the beginning of an iconic franchise, brought to life by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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NewsThis Immersive London Exhibition Will Put You Inside an Episode of 'Black Mirror'
Relive the anthology series' "Fifty Million Merits" episode as part of the Barbican's three-month science-fiction showcase.
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NewsA Huge Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Is Coming to Australia
The legendary Japanese director's work will screen in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.
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NewsSydney's Iconic The Ritz Cinema Is 80, So We're Giving Away Free Movie Tickets
It's the Randwick cinema's birthday and what better way to toast than with some Old Hollywood movies on the big screen.
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NewsBrisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival Cancelled, Leaving Brisbane Without a Major Film Festival
Terrible and downright unacceptable news.
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NewsAustralia's Human Rights Film Festival Announces 2017 Program
Tired of the same old blockbuster formula? See a film that cuts through the noise.
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NewsAcademy Award-Winning Director Oliver Stone Is Coming to Australia
The influential, polarising American filmmaker joins both the Vivid Ideas and Semi Permanent lineups in Sydney.
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NewsSydney Film Festival Reveals First Part of Its Huge 2017 Program
Coming to Sydney cinemas: a Rooney Mara-starring ghost story, a race relations doco narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, a follow-up to Jennifer Peedom's Sherpa.
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NewsWe're Hosting An Advanced Screening of 'Berlin Syndrome' in Sydney
The latest from Australian director Cate Shortland is a provocative thriller receiving rave reviews.
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NewsThe World's Biggest TV Festival Is Coming to Melbourne
Series Mania will bring screenings, panels, workshops and more to ACMI for five days of TV-focused fun.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to See 'Colossal' in Sydney
Plug in your details to check out a film about a monster without a mind of its own.
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NewsWe're Hosting an Advanced Screening of 'Get Out' in Sydney
Register your details and go into the draw to come and see a truly terrifying movie with us.
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NewsSpanish Film Festival Announces Stacked 2017 Program
With 38 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to bank robber thrillers and Goya-winning revenge flicks.
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NewsTen Films from SXSW 2017 Required in Australian Cinemas Immediately
They're making waves in Austin, let's hope the tide brings them to our shores.
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NewsGolden Age Will Screen Every Sydney Film Prize Winner in the Lead-Up to Sydney Film Festival
See Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning A Separation, Steve McQueen's Hunger and more over nine weeks.
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NewsLarge Groups are Freaking Out SXSW Attendees to Promote 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Red-clad ladies are popping up around the Austin festival to plug Hulu's new Elisabeth Moss-starring show.
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NewsIMDB Adds New 'F for Female' Rating to Highlight Women in Film
This well-timed new feature lets you search by female director or female protagonist.
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NewsTen Must-See Films at the 2017 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival
See Audrey Tautou on a boat, Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp in pre-war Europe and France's equivalent of an Amy Schumer movie.
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NewsThe Best of Berlinale 2017: Ten New Films We Can't Wait to Hit Australian Cinemas
We hopped over to the Berlin International Film Festival to get the jump on what's coming soon to cinemas.
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NewsFive Formidable Recent French Films You Might Have Missed
Brush up before the Alliance French Film Festival rolls into town.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2017
Pick from over 45 formidable films, from the Audrey Tatou-starring Jacques Cousteau biopic to Venice Film Festival highlight Planetarium.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Annual Oscars Drinking Game: The 2017 Edition
The only way to get through the 89th Academy Awards in one piece.
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NewsNew App Choovie Aims to Bring Fluid Ticket Pricing to Australian Cinemas
If cinemas jump on board, audiences will drive demand — and, by extension, how much they pay at the door.
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NewsBatman v Superman Cleans Up at the 37th Annual Razzie Awards
The superhero showdown took home four awards, but missed out on worst film of the year.
