In the film Below, a fight club is set up in a fictional, remote immigration detention centre. However the film’s shock tactics often feel manufactured, and risk exploiting the refugee crisis as mere backdrop.
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There was an outcry in the LGBT community when the ending of Fiona Shaw’s bestselling novel was changed for the film.
Good versus evil, tolerance and discrimination: there’s a lot we can learn from the Marvel universe.
Cinema is the most popular firm of cultural participation, but rising ticket prices threaten that.
Slow movies have until now been largely confined to arthouse cinema, for film aficionados only. Not any more.
In pop culture such as series, music, magazines and comics, queer children often find ways out of a world that cannot contain them.
Beloved film director Agnès Varda died at age 90, on March 29th. She was a pioneer of French New Wave cinema and admired for her ability to understand time and see beauty outside of mechanical norms.
When it was released 15 years ago, Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ,’ was a box-office success. The theme of Jesus has been a successful one that many filmmakers around the globe have cashed in on.
With 15 nominations and three Oscars, Netflix is besting the big film industry players at their own party.
Audio description began as an accessibility aid but has developed into an art form.
Olivia Colman has a funny story to tell on Wikipedia about the age displayed in her biography in the online encyclopedia. The opportunity for a Wikipedia fact-checking.
60 years ago a revolution began within the revolution for Cuba’s film industry.
Big investors seem to be mainly interested in Nollywood’s already established popularity with African audiences.
Oscar winning performances released straight to your home.
Disney’s 1964 classic film had a suffragette theme, but it remains to be seen if the new version will celebrate votes for women.
Monster movies are currently rampaging across the globe. Their popularity shows us how Hollywood’s place in world cinema is changing.
Soon after the death of Franco, Spain began an experiment with censorship that brought graphic sex and nudity to mainstream cinemas.
Cryonics is no longer synonymous with science fiction. What are we technically capable of doing and what do we have the right to do?
Elon Musk is an open admirer of the fictional Tony Stark, whose alter‑ego is none other than Iron Man. But Tesla’s recent financial results prove Musk to be more vulnerable than his hero…
The social structures that once enabled male artists to exploit and abuse women must be cast into the past. But castigating their work to the scrapheap is an act of cultural suicide.
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