Star Wars offshoot Rogue One was originally intended to be darker – but it looks like it might be rather vanilla.
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As the film descends into intoxication, viewers are likely to be sobered by glimpses of a badly damaged America.
From washing the dishes to saving tribes from oblivion: Disney’s women have come a long way.
The search for oil was once depicted in movies and books as a boys’ own adventure. But as films such as Deepwater Horizon show, in an age of anxieties over fossil fuels, oil’s story is now a darker one.
The power of storytelling research through film.
There’s a problematic bias in the way that assisted suicide is portrayed in the media.
In the world of Harry Potter, beasts are to be protected, not feared. But this concern for monsters is hardly modern.
Women are underrepresented in the film industry, but it’s not their fault. New research analyses the system that ensures male dominance and identifies the ‘gender offenders’: men who work predominantly with men.
When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
By denying ‘Aquarius’ its chance at the Oscars, Brazil’s government summoned memories of dictatorship-era censorship and brought the film unprecedented attention.
Trump is a Hollywood comedy blundering around in the ‘real world’ of American politics. Hollywood drama can show us what is needed instead.
Anarchists old and new are populating film and TV a lot at the moment – reflecting the profound anxiety of the times.
Loach’s latest film tells the story of a man who finds himself caught in a harsh world of uncaring bureaucrats, food banks and benefits cuts.
Motion capture actors help bring superheroes and fantastical creatures to life on screen. Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in The Hobbit trilogy, is campaigning for these actors to be eligible for Oscars – and it’s time the Academy heeded his call.
In 1913, an Indian literary giant named Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-white person to win the literature prize. He wrote over 2,000 songs and, like Dylan’s, they still resonate today.
In 1997, Joe Cinque was killed by his girlfriend Anu Singh. A new film about his death is riveting Australian cinema, with a heightened sense of tension and implicit violence throughout.
Myths of the Sonderkommando as unfeeling drunkards do them an injustice and damage history.
Hollywood turns its hand to the worst environmental disaster in US history – from which the environment is strangely missing.
Scary moments with a wider social message.
The myth that a blow to the head can both cause and cure amnesia – a common one on TV and in the movies – may have begun during the 19th century.
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