Comedy (Film)

Wicked, the highly anticipated screen adaption of the Broadway musical, will now be released on the same day as Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2, setting the stage for a box office showdown similar to Barbenheimer.

From The Idea of You to May December, stories of older women having affairs with younger men have been having a moment in Hollywood. But can Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron have enough fun with it for the film to work?

Rachel House is one of New Zealand's best-loved actors. Now she's bringing her comedic chops and Māori heritage to directing.

The great emu war of 1932 is as baked into Australian lore as vegemite and chucking a sickie after a big weekend. A new film from some of our country's brightest comedy makers turns the tale into an ocker Apocalypse Now.

The small hamlet of Warrack in the Pyrenees made national headlines last year when more than a dozen of the quirky sculptures appeared on local roadsides.

The unhinged deep-dive into US renaissance fair subculture you didn't know you needed, plus four more new-to-streaming shows to watch this month.

Pixar president Jim Morris confirmed in May that the studio would be focusing more on IP expansion than original storytelling. It shows with Inside Out 2.

Anyone But You might have elevated Glen Powell to name-brand status with your mum and her friends, but Hit Man is his most defining achievement (so far).

The fourth instalment in this nearly 30-year-old franchise behaves as though the heady days of 90s action movies had never ended.

You're not dreamin'... that's Stephen Curry on the News Breakfast couch talking short films, The Castle's legacy, and digging holes.

With 200-plus films, Sydney Film Festival's line-up can be overwhelming. Our film critics offer nine must-sees.

It's a kids' film about troubled imaginary friends, led by writer/director/star John Krasinski, and features some of the biggest names in Hollywood right now. 

We are happy to report the new Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, goes beyond being tokenistic Black and gay and that it's very good. But that's not all that's new to streaming this month.

In her memoir Rebel Rising, Rebel Wilson tells the story of how she found the type of success in Hollywood that has escaped others, by going against conventional wisdom.

In a film landscape bloated with product origin stories, Unfrosted, the farcical story of the invention of Pop-Tart, had the potential to be great. If only it wasn't for Jerry Seinfeld.

Anne Hathaway's steamy new film explores the age-gap relationship between a single mum and a much younger boy-band heart throb.

What to watch: from a British spy going on a road trip with a member of ISIS to a cringe comedy that will make you spit out your drink.

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in an action movie that's also an ode to the art of filmmaking, a musical nostalgia-fest, and a love story. 

Want to watch a refreshing and heartfelt rom-com? Or an exposé on Brandy Melville? Or a raunchy Korean Australian comedy? You can stream any and all of these right now.

There's plenty to be nostalgic about as the Nancy Meyers' film marks two decades since its release — but when it comes to inequity in age-gap relationships has anything really changed?

The Freaks and Geeks and SCTV star is remembered as "the nicest guy you could know", after dying on Monday following a brief illness.

Queen of film and TV Olivia Colman is in Australia for the premiere of 'Wicked Little Letters', a quirky, farcical and occasionally sinister mystery-comedy set in a 1920s English seaside town.

Rani Hayman sits down with Jack Black to talk Kung Fu Panda 4, avocado on toast and an unlikely collaboration with Britney Spears.

Clunes in Victoria hides its fictional alter ego well with a main street lined with bookshops, quaint cafes, and electric vehicles. It's one of numerous country towns that have had a brush with Hollywood.

Here's what's new to streaming, heaps good and out now — from two very different period dramas and The Gentlemen adaptation, to Kate Winslet's latest foray into the small screen, and a searing documentary about life in Gaza.