Lion, which has screened to critical acclaim around the world, seems to think it’s a political film. In reality it’s an effective melodrama that uncritically embraces a colonial fantasy of white saviours.
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The film is a powerful reworking of the novel by Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku.
Marilyn Monroe was a magnetic film star, but she had the potential to be a truly great stage actress. Clues in her life point to a missed chance: to escape the pressure of Hollywood and blossom as a serious thespian.
VR cinema explodes the frame, placing the spectator inside the space of the film. Audiences effectively edit it themselves, by choosing what to look at and when.
In a year characterised by some good films but few great ones, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle stood out as the best.
The latest Star Wars films stirs up topical themes of resistance, empowerment and activism in the face of large-scale injustices.
Star Wars offshoot Rogue One was originally intended to be darker – but it looks like it might be rather vanilla.
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.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin University
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Researcher and Sessional Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies; Secretary for the Melbourne Cinematheque, The University of Melbourne
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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