Openair Cinema

Openair Cinema

When sunset hits Sydney in summer, golden light gives way to silver screens

Moonlight Cinema

Moonlight Cinema

Until 15 Mar

Moonlight Cinema is just like those old school video nights you used to have, but with a couple hundred people and, well, outdoor.

Summer movie guide

Summer movie guide

Aliens! Nazis! Vampires! Er, trivia questions! They're all on offer at the movies this holiday season.

Sydney Human Rights Arts & Film Festival

Sydney Human Rights Arts & Film Festival

The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival promises more than just touchy-feely film.

Beat the crunch - Film

Beat the crunch - Film

Feeling the pinch? Here's how you can make the most out of both your pay packet and your city with flix for next to nix.

Enter Tropfest 2009

Enter Tropfest 2009

Call for entries

Australia's world famous short film festival Tropfest has opened its doors for 2009 proceedings.

Fugitive Pieces

Fugitive Pieces

Opens 20 Nov

Fugitive Pieces deals with the emotional aftershocks of Hitler's genocide, writes Nick Dent

Make a short film

Make a short film

How to

Jameson Irish Whiskey is fostering short film screenwriters.

Reviews

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

Now Showing

Movies about big dreams play well to the intellectuals and the cheap seats.

Australia

Australia

Now Showing

Time Out Sydney editor-in-chief Angus Fontaine passes judgement on the year's most hyped extravaganza.

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace

Now Showing

There's action aplenty, but a quantum of charm would not have gone astray in Craig's sophomore outing.

Big Stan

Big Stan

Now Showing

If repetitive mentions of homosexual rape make you uncomfortable, it's probably best that you avoid Big Stan altogether.

Fugitive Pieces

Fugitive Pieces

Now Showing

Survivor guilt gets a subtle treatment in this lyrical post-Holocaust film.

American Teen

American Teen

Now Showing

This movie has a rare generosity, that sets it apart from the current crop of glamorised gossip girls

RocknRolla

RocknRolla

Now Showing

The guv'nor of geezer cinema is back on cracking form.

Towelhead

Towelhead

Now Showing

It makes sense that the scenes are pitched between icky and titillating, but the lack of delicacy reduces everything to stock sordidness.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Now Showing

Limey journalist Simon Pegg heads to NYC, and it's not as funny as it should have been

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Now Showing

In the Coen brothers' latest, a dimwit (Brad Pitt) finds a disc containing CIA secrets and attempts to blackmail the agent (John Malkovich) it belongs to.

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

Now showing

Superficially, at least, it's hard to fault this risky adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel for its fidelity to the book.

Nights in Rodanthe

Nights in Rodanthe

Now Showing

Nicholas Sparks's novels are to Harlequin romances as Douwe Egberts is to Nescafé: marketed as having a little dash of class, they're still ersatz java.

Time Out Sydney newsletter

Newsletter for Time Out Sydney

The best of Sydney in your inbox each week.

Sign up now
Death Race

Death Race

Now Showing

It's brainless fun, but this update lacks the sardonic wit and satirical bite of the Corman-produced version.

Choke

Choke

Now Showing

Choke, like a lot of indies coming out of Sundance, is sweet and huggable.

The Duchess

The Duchess

Now Showing

A restrained portrayal from Knightley, a masterclass in passive aggression from Fiennes and a performance of tender seduction from Atwell.

News & Interviews

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

The director of Slumdog Millionaire speaks to Time Out Sydney.

Peter Morgan on Frost/Nixon

Peter Morgan on Frost/Nixon

Peter Morgan - whose writing credits include The Queen, The Last King of Scotland and Frost/Nixon - is a master of bringing to life the drama of high office.

When Elton John Met Baz Luhrmann - Exclusive

When Elton John Met Baz Luhrmann - Exclusive

Elton John, who sings the Australia theme tune, quizzes Baz Luhrmann on Sydney, the film, and songs in movies

Baz Luhrmann - Exclusive Interview

Baz Luhrmann - Exclusive Interview

The director of Australia reveals the continent-sized ambitions that inspired his epic crowd pleaser

Rob Schneider: Lover and Fighter

Rob Schneider: Lover and Fighter

The Big Stan director and star talks about man rape, kicking ass, and his adoration of Russell Crowe.

Daniel Craig - Quantum of Solace

Daniel Craig - Quantum of Solace

Time Out surprises Daniel Craig with questions from assorted high-profile pals from Sydney and around the world.

Marc Forster - Director - Quantum of Solace

Marc Forster - Director - Quantum of Solace

Interview

We caught up with the director of Quantum of Solace, as he strove to finish editing the latest in the James Bond 007 spy franchise.

Guy Ritchie on RocknRolla

Guy Ritchie on RocknRolla

Time Out meets the director of those breezy, 'geezer' crime movies. Psst - don't mention the wife!

Men's Group

Men's Group

Opens 13 Nov

IF Awards recognition has helped boost the little no-budget film that could.

Mirrah Foulkes - Dying Breed

Mirrah Foulkes - Dying Breed

Dying Breed does for Tasmanian tourism what Wolf Creek did for the top end. Time Out talks to star Mirrah Foulkes.

Hunger

Hunger

Opens Nov 6

He has a film star's name and his movie Hunger was named best film at the Sydney Film Festival.

Enough tightrope

Enough tightrope

Director James Marsh tells David Jenkins the amazing story of Man on Wire and how he saw the Twin Towers go up - and come down

Bond a day

A Bond a Day #21: Casino Royale

A Bond a Day #21: Casino Royale

We take a daily look back at the 21 official Bond films.

Click here to view archived articles

Film

Your Name*

Your Email*

Recipient's Name*
Recipient's Email*
Message*