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Mark Walker is opening a single screen indpendent cinema in Collingwood.

In an age of streaming, Melbourne is getting another independent cinema

Eclipse Cinema, a 64-seat, single-screen affair, will open on Thursday in a warehouse that once housed the Sherrin football factory.

  • Cara Waters

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Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe Cross, the sheriff of Eddington, New Mexico, whose conviction to upholding the law is tested by COVID directives.

Is it a thriller, satire or nightmare? Eddington will keep you guessing

Director Ari Aster sends his kindred spirit Joaquin Phoenix on another odyssey through a divided America.

  • Jake Wilson
“Hell yes”: Michelle Yeoh was thrilled to help bring the English-language version of Ne Zha 2 to life.

Ne Zha 2 smashed the box office once. With Michelle Yeoh’s help, could it do it again?

The Academy Award winner is part of the coming English-language version, a film she believes will resonate with audiences far beyond China.

  • Nell Geraets
‘I will pay my debts’: A delighted Simon Mesa has won the $140,000 Bright Horizons prize at MIFF.

‘A film about the worst version of myself’ wins massive cash prize

MIFF’s Bright Horizons prize, worth $140,000, has gone to a sardonic Colombian comedy about a washed-up poet.

  • Karl Quinn
The Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace in Sydney’s Cremorne is among the wave of Australian cinemas increasingly relying on events and live entertainment to draw crowds, says general manager Alex Temesvari.

Live jazz, comedy and craft: Cinemas lean into experiences to entice viewers back from streaming

Seats that move with on-screen action, jazz bars and live comedy are among efforts to woo audiences, as privately run lights-on knit and watch screenings are also booming.

  • Elias Visontay
Sigourney Waver as Ripley in Alien and Col Needham, the founder of the website IMDb.

He watched Alien 14 times in a row, then gave birth to an internet monster

Col Needham first tracked movie credits in a paper notebook in 1981. Now his IMDb is the go-to site for film and TV fans around the world – and worth a fortune.

  • Karl Quinn
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Riz Ahmed in a scene from Relay.

This film’s ending makes no sense – but it isn’t a complete write-off

Relay is billed as a thriller but works best as a study of isolation – and its director remains criminally underrated.

  • Jake Wilson
Rebecca Breeds plays Lou, an Australian actor living in Los Angeles who reluctantly returns to the family home.

Love triangles and secrets collide in this story of a sibling rivalry

Kangaroo Island tells the story of an actor who returns to her scenic childhood home.

  • Sandra Hall
Kangaroo Island movie.

Life, death, God: The small film tackling the biggest questions

Kangaroo Island by husband-and-wife team Timothy David and Sally Gifford is a small but perfectly judged film about some Very Big Topics.

  • Karl Quinn
Indian Film festival of Melbourne.

How Indian cinema’s ‘positive values’ are winning audiences across the world

The man known as the George Clooney of Indian film says his industry offers an antidote to the cynicism of Hollywood.

  • Nell Geraets