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Southpaw looks set to be a fairly familiar boxing movie. So what can we expect?
The latest Terminator film marks a recovery from its predecessors, but it’s treatment of time travel is still implausible.
The American film Dear White People has seen some controversy over its UK release. Here’s why.
This year marks the centenary of Australian animation. Alongside some memorable international successes, animation has long been significant to the industry.
The recently released Les Combattants is just the latest addition to a fast-expanding body of Hollywood-style rom-coms to come out of France.
In some ways, it’s spot-on. In others, not so much.
A “Pleistocene Park” might be a more realistic scenario.
Christopher Lee, who died on June 7, was one of the greatest character actors to have ever appeared on screen, even after fleeing Castle Dracula for the hills of Hollywood.
Rather than attempting to retell the life story of its subject, Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film simply presents a day in his life – his last day, leading up to his murder at Ostia.
He was the best of the Draculas, an Anglo-European vampire who could be tragic and sensuous at the same time.
Peter Greenaway’s new biopic of the famed Soviet director depicts a period spent in Mexico and an affair that – in Greenaway’s telling – had a transformative effect on Eisenstein’s output.
The producers of a creationist doc took advantage of Screen Australia’s tax offsets. Were they exploiting a loophole? Hardly – and there’s good reason why producers of all films should enjoy such benefits.
There are metal spikes, sadistic implements of torture galore, massive machine guns mounted on the top of buggies, jeeps, motorcycles, and more leather than a Judas Priest concert. But does it work?
George Miller’s Mad Max films have aged remarkably well – perhaps because they have had such a profound influence on the films that followed them.
Girlhood expresses the irrepressible potential within us all not to follow, not to echo, but to live a life defined by those moments in which we feel joy.
Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart star in French director Olivier Assayas’ latest film, an elliptical address to the cruelties of the star system.
Hitler died 70 years ago. Or did he?
New research suggests that female landowners were by no means as rare as was once thought by historians.
This is a timely and vibrant film, funny at times – and not without a hint of editorial distance from director Winterbottom.
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