Bump: A Christmas Film – premiering on 30 November – begins with Claudia Karvan playing the grinch and griping about the festive season. Christmas is a time of terrible music, crushing expectations, ...

Marketing is critical to the success of commercial films, and companies will often spend half as much again on top of the production budget to let people know about a film. But this is usually not the ...

You might expect a list of Australian horror films to be teeming with the beasties people associate with the continent: poisonous snakes, deadly spiders, mammoth crocs. Yet while this collection of ...

While Australia may be on the opposite side of the world from Hollywood, the country has made its mark on Tinseltown thanks to its unique and thriving film industry. Although it is yet to reach the ...

From Wake in Fright to Came a Hot Friday, Australian and New Zealand films use wagers, bad bets and games of chance to put ...

Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced that Australian director Rolf de Heer will serve as president of the ...

Since Australia first began producing feature films, it has returned time and again to the subject of the first world war. Before Dawn, out in cinemas today, is the latest in this long line of ...

Australian and New Zealand indie distributor Umbrella Entertainment will launch Brollie, a free of charge, ad-supported streaming service later this month. It will lean on Umbrella’s library of ...

Who makes the best horror films? It’s a question frequently, viciously, debated between genre fans. Japan brought us classics like Ringu, Ju-On and Audition, A24 continues to raise the bar in the US, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australia's indigenous films have come of age with a series of box office successes for movies depicting not only the harsh reality of life for disadvantaged Aborigines but ...