Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020)
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A neuroscientist and a clinician watched two new films about dementia. They recognised what they saw.
Still from the German silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr Calgari (1920).
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The experience of going to the cinema is unique, wrote Woolf.
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A new film ignores some of the most striking details of the man who sold a fake Vermeer to the Nazis.
The Oscar success of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite led to millions of western investment in South Korean cinema.
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From festivals to awards, generating buzz can increase the gross earnings of a film and even increase investment in a country’s film industry.
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne Jones.
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It’s a malleable mythos that has been adapted by kings and queens as well as artists and filmmakers.
Bruce Willis in Death Wish (2018)
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For decades, rape-revenge films focused on fathers avenging crimes against their daughters. But filmmakers are telling new stories.
Eric Bana in The Dry.
Roadshow Films
Early into the pandemic there were cries and questions as to whether the cinema industry would survive. The answer, it seems, was here all along. A robust and diverse local industry.
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If you still haven’t seen this movie about a jazz pianist whose soul goes on a great adventure, it’s about time you did.
Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020).
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In depicting brutal massacres and mission life, this film gets a lot right. And the model for its central protagonist may well be a young man called Narlim, exiled from his country in the late 1930s.
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The Digs’ archaeologists are closer to reality than the intrepid Indiana Jones, and that’s refreshing.
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The sequel to 2018’s Occupation, this new alien invasion film is overly ambitious, both incomprehensible and shrill.
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What role does culture play when it comes to disasters?
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Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.
The Cast of Dix pour cent .
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Watching a foreign film or TV show doesn’t automatically teach you the language – but there are ways to make it stick.
Seventy-four percent of shows and films with an abortion plot line centered on an impregnated white character, including ‘Little Fires Everywhere.’
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Hollywood continues to dramatically exaggerate the medical risks associated with abortion while downplaying barriers to access.
The decision by Warner fuels a popular fallacy that studios simply react to what customers want.
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Industry experts see the shift away from theatrical releases as a sign that Hollywood studios are embracing the inevitable future. But is it as simple as that?
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Miles Franklin’s masterpiece features an untamed, unapologetic heroine, positing a choice between career and love rather than women ‘having it all’.
Some movie fans who await Christmas Day movie openings will be stuck in the middle of cinema closures due to COVID-19 and streaming restrictions. Here, a still from ‘Wonder Woman 1984.’
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Canadians won’t be able to stream ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ when it launches Christmas Day. Surfing streaming menus and reviews for what to watch and where may become a new Christmas movie tradition.
Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell in ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ will inspire viewers with more than keeping up fashionable appearances through December holidays in lockdown.
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The movie is indeed a silly look at how sharing song and media in popular culture can affect how we relate as individuals and nations but it also carries deeper insights.
Thomas Banks' Quest for Love
Being a gay man with disability means you don’t see yourself onscreen. Thomas Banks wants to change all that.