Bad-guy sensei John Kreese, played by Martin Kove, threatens Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and Mr Miyagi (Pat Morita) in The Karate Kid.
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Did the beloved 1980s teen classic The Karate Kid perpetuate Orientalist stereotypes?
Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) tries to lure a T. rex away from the kids trapped inside an overturned Jeep.
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Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.
Over the course of ‘The Whale,’ Charlie’s body gradually breaks down.
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In a thin-obsessed culture, fatness has become its own kind of monster.
‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ is one of only three Black films since 2018 to have a production budget exceeding $100 million.
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After the first ‘Black Panther’ shattered box office expectations, some critics wondered if it marked the dawn of a new era of big-budget Black films.
Even supervillains need the odd day off.
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A linguist explores the origin of the word ‘father’ – and why derivatives are common in languages across the globe.
Actor Alec Baldwin was involved in a tragic on-set accident.
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A tragic accident resulted in the shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of actor Alec Baldwin’s latest movie. The dangers of more guns on set extend to society, two scholars argue.
Most people are avoiding movie theaters, even as restrictions have eased.
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The motion picture industry has endured a pandemic before. But the coronavirus may completely upend the old way of doing business.
The grotesque excesses of stardom in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ showed a truth captured by cameos: celebrities are best in small doses.
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Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic noir , ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ blurred boundaries between reality and fiction through casting. Recognizing cameos makes viewers feel we’re part of the film’s story.
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Movie director Joel Schumacher’s body of work is profound, and his influence on contemporary Hollywood cinema indelible.
Romance on the High Seas.
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Nothing passes the time like a singalong to some classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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The film misses an opportunity to highlight the broader problems of inequality and discrimination in the media.
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Despite the efforts to expand the Academy, women and people of colour are once again conspicuous by their absence this year.
Idris Elba and Francesca Hayward.
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There are many reasons the movie version of Cats has flopped, not least the unfortunate way in which various characters have been assigned racial characteristics.
Whistle-blower: Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun.
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Two new films feature the bravery and tenacity of government employees who risk everything to expose official wrongdoing.
Jeremy Renner and Robert Downey Jr. as Hawkeye and Iron Man
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As Marvel’s 22nd blockbuster looks set to become the most successful film of all time, is Hollywood running out of original ideas?
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Fifty years after the original film, three generations of Shaft are loose on the streets of New York.
Lupita Nyong'o, Evan Alex, and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019).
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Peele’s films reflect the way many African-American directors have used the horror genre to reflect the black experience.
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Winner of the 2019 Oscar for best picture, Green Book highlights the history of racism in America and has lessons for today.
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The 1939 classic has influenced more films than any other film before or since.
Controversial film directors Nic Roeg, left, and Bernardo Bertolucci.
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The pair never worked together, but their controversial depiction of sex links them in the minds of movie historians.