Sweet Country — a film that competed at last year's Venice Film Festival where it won a special jury prize — sees Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton artfully tackle the Western, a genre well suited to examining issues of race and colonisation.

A-list actors are distancing themselves from Woody Allen and his next film, heightening questions about the future of the prolific 82-year-old filmmaker in a Hollywood newly sensitive to allegations of sexual misconduct.

Made up of a core group of close friends who had worked together in the youth circus scene, the acrobats ran away to the circus and formed their own company in 2009.

The 46-year-old Irish singer's cause of death will be investigated by a coroner after London police — who earlier described her sudden death as "unexplained" — say their investigations have found nothing suspicious.

Harry Potter fans make their own free-to-watch film that chronicles villain Lord Voldemort's past — and it's already racked up more than 6 million views.

The Golden Globe-winning director says we are living in a time of division and opposing ideology, but he believes stories of love can lead us into a brighter future.

US comedian and filmmaker Aziz Ansari responds to allegations he pressured a woman into sexual activity on a date last year, saying the encounter was "completely consensual".

A sewer-ridden slum or a neglected tight-knit community on the fringes battling poverty and a bad reputation — what was the real Wapping like?

The French actress offers her apologies to victims of sexual assault who were offended by a column denouncing "puritanism" she signed, but maintains her reservations about the #MeToo campaign.

Actress Scarlett Johansson is being accused of hypocrisy for slamming actor James Franco over sexual misconduct allegations after previously defending director Woody Allen, who has himself been accused of sexual assault.

A collection of striking images of life in Broken Hill in the 1900s survives time, heat and years in a dusty old shed.

Twelve days after the funeral of her mother, father and younger sister, friends and family gather to remember 29-year-old Jessica Falkholt who died last week from injuries she suffered in a fiery Boxing Day car crash.

The Screen Actors Guild awards were a little different this year. For one, Kristen Bell was the first-ever host. Here's what else changed, and who won big — including Nicole Kidman.

The sharing of stunning photos on social media is driving the degradation of some of Tasmania's natural gems, warns professional photographer Jason Futrill.

More than 300 members of the cast and crew, and their families, pack the Alice Springs Cinema for a special cast preview of new feature film Sweet Country.