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Father is a Hollywood great, but daughter is on course to take her own place in the movie pantheon.
Ripley beat the patriarchy and a rampaging xenomorph - but Daniels isn’t even given the chance.
History movies may have Oscar potential, but their educational potential is more complicated. Should teachers use Hollywood to teach?
Don’t listen to the headlines linking binge watching to depression and loneliness. It can be a positive experience – but only if we think of it as a good thing.
If you make science entertaining then people are prepared to pay attention.
Expectations were high for a politically-charged awards ceremony. But Oscars 2017 was tame compared to the past.
If you want to know who’s going to win the Oscars, your best bet is the bookmakers.
The Twilight star used a pioneering technique for turning videos into animations which resemble stylised paintings.
The vast majority of video game movie adaptions are commercial and critical failures. But with big budgets, dedicated fans and real talent involved, what’s going wrong?
From the Blade Runner reboot to Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot to a film about the reincarnated spirit of a dog … here is our list of the movies to look forward to - or not.
When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
The Oujia board’s origins were anything but evil. It emerged, in part, out of a longing to communicate with loved ones who had died during the Civil War.
The new movie ‘Deepwater Horizon’ depicts the blowout that triggered the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A professor of petroleum engineering assesses what the film gets right and wrong.
IBM’s Watson watched hundreds of horror movie trailers and then created its own for the new film Morgan.
Climate disaster films are an emerging genre that reflect people’s desire to cope with a changing planet through art. How will they affect public attitudes on climate change?
Female sexuality is a powerful, enchanting force in narratives ranging from fairytales to a modern Turkish film. Mustang reminds us that sometimes education can be an alternative to death or marriage.
Contrary to popular belief, several recent studies suggest that plot spoilers don’t always make us like a film or books less – and may even make us like it more.
For art to imitate life is understandable, but politics inspired by films can be a recipe for disaster.
The idea of phantoms being comical is as old as ghouls.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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