Hollywood movie star Chris Hemsworth returns to the Gold Coast for the Aussie premiere of his Queensland-filmed Marvel movie, Thor: Ragnarok, saying he pushes for production to take place near home where possible.

Spaghetti western movies and the lives of Aboriginal stockmen inspire a short satirical film about life as an outback cowboy.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to British author Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

The Adelaide Film Festival opens tonight, with a strong box office result for 13 original local works that are proving popular with audiences, according Artistic Director Amanda Duthie.

Set 30 years after the events in the original, what's missing from the sequel is a deeper sense of why this film needed to exist at all, writes Jason Di Rosso.