Michael Oher and his family celebrate his selection by the Baltimore Ravens at the 2009 NFL Draft.
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Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase is misleading.
The words Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the Gita, seen written in dust on part of a deactivated nuclear missile at the Pima Air & Space Museum.
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Oppenheimer’s knowledge of Sanskrit literature was more than cursory. He used quotes and parables from Sanskrit texts as a guide to right actions in his life.
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Movie tickets are nearly always the same price, whether the film is a flop or a sold-out blockbuster. Why? And how much more does a trip to the movies cost than 20 years ago?
In ‘Scream 6,’ interior private spaces like apartments offer only the illusion of safety.
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Horror filmmakers are wrestling with space in cities and what it means to share it.
There’s a difference between the fulfilling relationship mothers can have with their children and the patriarchal institution of motherhood.
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Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
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AI might not yet be able to create leading performances from an actor’s likeness but the jobs of those in the background are far less safe.
Cillian Murphy as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer.’
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Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
The Jurassic Park franchise has spawned several movies, theme parks and spin-off products.
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Jurassic Park was a technological breakthrough for film because of its use of CGI. It also revived an interest in paleontology and raised ethical questions about DNA use.
Picketers carry signs outside Paramount in Times Square on July 17, 2023, in New York.
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The Hollywood actors’ strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts.
The film’s cast includes lesbian icon Kate McKinnon.
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Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
Actors Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh were among those who walked out of the premiere of ‘Oppenheimer.’
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As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece was released in 1968.
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If you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic, then it’s likely you will have seen other films influenced by it.
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ comes out in theatres on June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its originating ideas are taken from 19th-century racist archaeology. Will this iteration be different?
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The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.
Ingmar Bergman in 2003.
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Here was Bergman, director of such sombre film classics as The Seventh Seal (1957). What could he possibly have in common with Ang Lee, director of 2003’s Hulk?
Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) yn ceisio denu'r T. rex i ffwrdd o'r plant sy'n gaeth yn y car.
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Rhyddhawyd Jurassic Park ar y sgrin fawr ym mis Mehefin 1993 a newidiodd sinema am byth.
Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) tries to lure a T. rex away from the kids trapped inside an overturned Jeep.
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Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.
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How hallucinations are depicted in the movies perpetuates myths and harmful stereotypes, rather than encouraging people to seek support.
A still from the film ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ showing Russell Crowe as the real-life Vatican exorcist.
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How did blockbuster horror films such as ‘The Exorcist’ help the church warm to the controversial ritual?
The digital era contributed immensely to the growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s film industry.
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Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, recently signed the copyright law. Its provisions will be beneficial only if it is well implemented.
A sentinel droid features in the film Before We Disappear.
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A new film changes its story based on the emotions expressed by the viewer.