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‘Somebody has to do something’: Top feature film and documentary picks from scholars examining climate change and cinema offer courage to hold contradictory truths and pursue climate solutions.
When the film premiered, theatergoers fainted and vomited. It went on to inspire a series of copycat films – while fomenting a cultural panic about the demons in our midst.
Steven Spielberg was Hollywood’s wonder boy, best known for films about sharks, aliens and archeologists. Then he turned his attention to the Holocaust.
The powerful beauty of The Peasants comes from the setting of the film against famous Polish and European paintings.
There is a long history of musicals in Australia, popular with audiences since the 1930s.
As Hollywood continues to reckon with its past, Vivien Leigh’s story is a reminder of the challenges faced by women, even the most successful ones.
What seems at first blush to be an innovative approach to franchise movie-making is nothing more than a futile exercise in cinematic nostalgia.
Most movies tend to minimise or exaggerate insomnia symptoms. Insomnia is also rarely depicted as an illness that can be treated.
A silent German film from 1918 was one of cinema’s first dramatic presentations of queer love. Over a century later, and the story of love in a hostile social environment still resounds.
In A Haunting in Venice, Kenneth Branagh continues cinema’s long tradition of adapting Christie through the lens of horror.
My PhD considered Branagh’s self-fashioning through Shakespeare, little anticipating the disparate output that was to come.
Loving portrait of an unrequited love and a cultural divide.
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?
New Hollywood filmmaker William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, has died at 87.
A paleobiologist on why he appreciates the franchise despite its inaccuracies.
A controversial low-budget Indian feature film about a discredited anti-Muslim conspiracy theory has been causing a political storm, going all the way to India’s Supreme Court.
Atomic Power was pioneering in communicating the history behind Robert Oppenheimer’s work.
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.
A sex comedy that’s more like a buddy film than a romance
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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