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Sorry, but Christmas has a dark side, too.
Daisy Ridley plays the character Rey.
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The manic light-and-sound show is more tribute than groundbreaking film.
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
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Film sagas like Star Wars transcend the screen, connecting viewers to their pasts, to one another and to the hero within.
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Four decades later, I find myself surveying 13 billion years of cosmic history and mapping events that really did happen a long time ago in galaxies far, far away.
The force is strong with this one.
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How to build a movie empire that will last for generations.
Sinatra in 1950, just before his life’s great turning point.
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His vocal chords haemorrhaged, he was dropped by Columbia records: in 1951, Sinatra’s career as America’s top pop singer seemed over.
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The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
In The Man with the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra plays a poker-dealing junkie.
In his roles, Frank Sinatra often embodied the outsider, the man excluded from America’s suburban success story.
Screen Australia will target female-led projects.
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Screen Australia has announced a five point plan to promote gender balance, including A$3 million funding for female-led creative projects.
James McEvoy playing with fire.
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Mary Shelley’s diaries reveal that in 1814 she attended a lecture that Andrew Crosse, “thunder and lightning man”, delivered in London.
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Two new monster movies are to be released this week in the lead-up to Christmas, and each sports a very different kind of beast.
Even with Kate Winslet and Judy Davis cast in The Dressmaker, the film was considered too high a risk for international buyers.
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If the Australian screen industry is to grow into the future and prosper, it cannot ignore the untapped creative talent and leadership potential of women. We need strategies to address this problem.
They’re back … with some iffy casting.
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Is Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, All, an unwelcome stereotype?
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back at Secret Cinema.
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Cinema is evolving into a multi-sensory spectacular.
Carol and Therese in the store at Christmas time.
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Carol doesn’t fall into any of the stereotypes we’ve come to expect from portrayals of lesbians on screen. Watch it.
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It’s a million miles from the cartoon capers of James Bond, but remains a familiar tale of good versus evil.
Shocking secret? How the tabloids saw it.
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Decades on, is HIV still a taboo subject?
One Alan Bennett with Miss Shepherd, the lady in the van.
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The film transcends its feelgood marketing campaign to contribute to current debates around charity and its practical implications.
The Newcastle Witch Hunt (1650), from Ralph Gardiner’s account (1655).
Witches in fiction fascinate but what were they really like?
Sin Dee Reel (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor).
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Have there been too many transgender dramas recently? There’s certainly room for this one.