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“That’s not a knife”: Paul Hogan and Linda Koslowski in Crocodile Dundee.

Forty years on, Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee is still our biggest film. Here’s why it could have been a disaster

Even one of the country’s most astute businessmen, Kerry Packer, thought Paul Hogan’s comedy would be a box office failure.

  • Garry Maddox
Daniel MacPherson at Ace Martial Arts in Banksia, where he trained for Beast.

Daniel MacPherson on ‘saying yes to things I probably shouldn’t have’

The former Neighbours star is no stranger to suffering for his art. But playing an MMA fighter took that to the next level.

  • Karl Quinn

Racists ‘who wanted us gone’ get another lesson from Warwick Thornton

The acclaimed director may or may not be scared of actors, but there’s no mistaking the message in his latest film, Wolfram.

  • Stephanie Bunbury
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
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.

  • Garry Maddox
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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.

  • Craig Mathieson
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.

  • Nell Geraets
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.

  • Fiona Byrne