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There is a growing mainstream appetite for things that would previously be considered “deviant” pursuits – and businesses are catching on.
The mondo film, for all its faults, encapsulates our tangled responses to the darkest moments of our collective history.
The past may be a foreign country, but the way we engage with it determines our present.
Cate Blanchett howls and contorts in RED, del kathryn barton’s ferocious exploration of female power.
The Oscar-nominated film is pure Hollywood hokum and a lost opportunity.
No film could be more perfectly circular, more self-congratulatory and more suited to the time.
As T2 Trainspotting hits cinemas, a great deal has changed since the original.
Australian cinema has offered striking, intelligent and forceful evaluations of our national identity. Rather than play an outdated gambling game this Australia Day, why not watch the best of Aussie film?
No one likes a white supremacist, but is violence the answer?
From photoshopped images, to fake eye-witness accounts, to a real-life attempted murder, the Slenderman is the internet’s urban myth.
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.
We all need a little trip to La La Land.
Despite the furore over the ‘ghosting’ of Peter Cushing in Rogue One, directors will continue to push for improved technology enabling digital replication of actors.
Woody Harrelson’s directorial debut, released this month, signals that we are in a new age of cinema.
Musicals are back in vogue, with La La Land cleaning up at the Golden Globes. The film is, among other things, an homage to the classic musicals of old. So what are the must see movies of the genre?
After the deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in the last days of 2016, the release of a new documentary about their lives, Bright Lights, feels serendipitous. Already shown to some film festivals…
Lion, which has screened to critical acclaim around the world, seems to think it’s a political film. In reality it’s an effective melodrama that uncritically embraces a colonial fantasy of white saviours.
The film is a powerful reworking of the novel by Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku.
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