One Alan Bennett with Miss Shepherd, the lady in the van.
Sony
The film transcends its feelgood marketing campaign to contribute to current debates around charity and its practical implications.
The Newcastle Witch Hunt (1650), from Ralph Gardiner’s account (1655).
Witches in fiction fascinate but what were they really like?
Sin Dee Reel (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor).
Metrodome
Have there been too many transgender dramas recently? There’s certainly room for this one.
Lionsgate
The film’s exploration of a young Irish woman’s emigration to 1950s New York digs beneath nostalgic stereotype.
Dogwoof
Documentaries are fragile things, easily blown into obscurity or silenced by the sheer weight of corporate power.
Channel 4
The screen is as close as many people get to experiencing prison. But do these dramas offer a realistic insight into life behind bars?
The headquarters of The Boston Globe.
Brian Snyder/Reuters
For a former Boston reporter, Spotlight evokes the thrill of hard-hitting, influential reporting.
Think Jam
This spellbinding documentary tells Malala’s story while shining a light on a global injustice
British singer Sam Smith is known for his soaring falsetto.
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Sam Smith’s Writing’s on the Wall confronts the last taboo of the canon: Bond’s hypermasculinity.
The Society of the Spectacle.
The Counter Image
“What is the point of studying popular films?” As barbaric as it may appear, this is a good question. It forces one to reconsider, and to some extent thereby refresh, one’s perspective on the subje
Sony
Every Bond film since the 1970s has promised to revolutionise the Bond girl and bring something new to the table. They haven’t yet.
Bond ambition.
Sony
In a world where the gadgets have taken over, Bond feels somewhat antiquated but he is inevitably privileged by the demands of cinema.
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Disney Studios Vice President Mary Ann Hughes and Screen Queensland CEO Tracey Vieira pose at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast last week.
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For every film, specialists are employed for everything from rigging the lights executing the stunts. The announcement of two major new productions coming to Australia will develop that expertise.
There was no joy for the creator of the DeLorean – the car was a failure.
Reuters/Andrew Kelly
Few would remember this fantasy car as a model of motoring excellence. It owes its success instead to a fantasy film that has turned 30.
James Bond may be pro-Snowden but Carrie Mathison’s lot aren’t so sure.
Channel 4
The battle for public opinion over whether Edward Snowden was right might just be won out, not in the press or the US Congress, but in fiction.
The film sets up a paternalistic dynamic that overrides everything else.
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The Intern is a film ostensibly about gendered and generational role reversal that quickly turns into a treatise about how much even successful young women still have to learn (from old men).
Universal
Crimson Peak reminds us that gothic romance is the originator of modern horror: gothic and romance are inextricably related.
Sony
The currently screening films The Walk and the Program are both fictionalised versions of recent documentaries.
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Suffragette tells a story that is both of its time, and timeless - an historical struggle whose lessons, sadly, still need to be learned.
Anne-Marie Duff (Violet) and Carey Mulligan (Maud) in Suffragette.
Steffan Hill
Suffragettes were not merely nice (if slightly bonkers) posh ladies in impressive hats.