Damian Hill plays Jim, a dad looking after his son.
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West of Sunshine takes place over a single day, following Jim, a courier of increasingly dangerous sorts, as he delivers packages across Melbourne.
For black and biracial Americans, the pressures to adapt to a dominant white culture – and surrender their unique sense of self – can be suffocating.
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And without white privilege, they wouldn’t feel compelled to follow a white script.
The Meg: Jaws, but considerably larger.
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The latest scary shark film, The Meg, opens this week. But fictionalised tales of monster fish blind us to the important role sharks play in maintaining the health of our oceans.
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What is it that makes films about sharks so popular?
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A great movie that gets some of its history wrong is way better than an accurate film that puts people to sleep.
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The final scene of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola deploys a technique known as parallel montage to great and rhythmic effect.
Computer-generated dinosaurs walk the Earth.
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The first time computer-generated characters interacted with humans on a movie screen was 25 years ago, in ‘Jurassic Park.’ Since then, technology has improved, giving directors more choices.
Avengers: Infinity War is more than empty spectacle, particularly due to its complex villain Thanos.
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To some, superhero films are the equivalent of fracking. But they offer audiences transcendence, mystery, a moral compass, and even the hope of salvation.
People are still drawn to cinema to share the mass experience of watching a movie.
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Netflix’s Chief Content Officer has said the streaming service is the future of film. But cinemas have survived many other threats to their dominance.
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Interactive cinema and the arts are at the forefront of research into brain-computer interaction.
The Shape of Water offers a clever allegory to Donald’s Trump’s presidency, with Michael Shannon’s character (on the left) representing some of the president’s worst qualities.
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Not everyone can escape to the ocean’s depths to avoid the Trump presidency, but we can escape to the movies. ‘The Shape of Water’ reminds audiences of the humanity of those who are marginalized.
Previous plans to adapt Blood Meridian had envisioned casting Vincent D'Onofrio as “judge Holden.”
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Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy’s famous novel, may be unfilmable – not because of its gruesome violent tale of U.S. imperialism in the Southwest, but because its religious vision is terrifying.
In ‘Three Wise Girls’ (1932), Cassie (Jean Harlow) has to fend off her handsy boss.
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Scores of Depression-era films depicted a pattern of sexual harassment that sounds all too familiar.
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Only recently did it come to represent the dream of fame.
Some of Hollywood’s greatest movies have never won an Academy Award. But there’s an indication that critically acclaimed movies are now being recognized with Oscar nominations.
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Throughout its history, the Academy Awards has picked some questionable winning films. But there are signs the Oscars are more often recognizing quality filmmaking.
Moviegoers familiarize themselves with the joystick that will allow them to interact with the film ‘I’m Your Man’ during its premiere on Dec. 16, 1992.
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Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
King of a technologically advanced country, Black Panther is a scientific genius.
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Seeing black lead characters who are accomplished scientists could be just the thing to help inspire future generations to follow in their footsteps.
Vicky Krieps and Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread.
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Daniel Day Lewis makes his last appearance in Phantom Thread as master of a fashion house disturbed by his relationship with a waitress.
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Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul opened a ‘Sleepcinemahotel’ where audiences let their subconscious minds watch his movies as they fell asleep.
Onlookers watch missiles launch in the 1983 made-for-TV film ‘The Day After.’
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In 1983, a made-for-TV film about the consequences of nuclear war was watched by 100 million people – and became a cultural lightning rod.