Film

There’s nothing as disarming as a baby’s smile — you see them breaking people’s tough exteriors all the time. So it should make people happy to know there is a whole documentary about babies, called Babies. But there is more than just a lot of gurgles and nappies going on. Babies looks at the first […]

Scarlett Johansson is now scarlet in more ways than one — the actress showed off her new bright red hair at an event over the weekend. The 26-year-old actress is normally blonde, but has dyed her tresses a fiery red. She debuted her new look at the White House Correspondents’ party in Washington DC on […]

There are not many actresses that polarise Australian audiences the way Nicole Kidman does. But there is little doubt that in Rabbit Hole (of which she is also producer) Nicole puts in a career-best performance and deserves her Academy Award nomination. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole is about a couple who […]

Watching a crazy guy trapped by a rock for 127 hours is hardly the formula for a moving story. But in the hands of Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and James Franco (Spider-Man, Eat Pray Love) you get an experience that will stay with you a lot longer. Aron Ralston (Franco) is a 26-year-old rock climber, […]

It’s “Phantom of the Ballet” as Natalie Portman stars in Black Swan, the much-hyped psychological thriller, directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) which will attract as much comment about the sex scenes as the dancing. Nina (Natalie Portman) is an aspiring ballerina, driven by an obsessive mother (Barbara Hershey) and her own perfectionism. She is […]

It must be the season to be romantic with Aussie leading men, with the release of The Back-up Plan featuring Jennifer Lopez and Australian actor Alex O’Loughlin. Zoe (Lopez) is a sweet-natured, gorgeous-looking pet-shop owner who sells dogs that aren’t in-bred pure-breds. Zoe is somehow still single and wants to have a baby on her […]

Life is good in Venice, with the star couple lapping up the romance of the city and their lively kids running wild with Grandma and Grandpa. Putting to rest recent speculation that their relationship is on the rocks, life in Venice seems happier than ever for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – and their six […]

Hunky Avatar star Sam Worthington is Hollywood’s hottest new property, yet as the former bricklayer tells Elaine Lipworth, he’s determined to hang on to his roguish ways. Just after his 30th birthday, Sam Worthington woke up early one morning in his rented Sydney house and had a revelation. “I looked around and thought, ‘I need […]

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has always had an affinity with women in his movies. They are often portrayed as iron-willed and given leading roles. Men always seem weak and enslaved by their weaknesses, usually towards women. Almodóvar tends to stick with his favoured leading ladies, and in his new film, Broken Embraces, we are fortunate […]

Clive Owen shoots from the heart rather than a pistol in the new Scott Hicks film,The Boys Are Back, an adaptation of Simon Carr’s memoirThe Boys Are Back in Town(2001), which looks at the challenges men face as parents. Apparently this film has been eight years in the making, although Hicks and Owen were involved […]