Here are the truths behind some of the major scenes from Ridley Scott’s new Napoleon biopic.
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Wes Anderson’s film ‘Asteroid City’ encompasses an environmental grief that manifests as failure to accept an uncontrollable reality.
The Barbie movie has caused a media storm, even before the photo of the pink-clad Canadian PM and his son circulated on social media. Much of the conversation has zoned in on men and masculinity.
A controversial low-budget Indian feature film about a discredited anti-Muslim conspiracy theory has been causing a political storm, going all the way to India’s Supreme Court.
The Christopher Nolan film ‘Oppenheimer’ is set to become a summer blockbuster. But one of the featured sites in the movie is a sobering reminder of the horror of nuclear war.
It’s Keaton’s razor-edged, comedic darkness that allows the film to gather emotional depth.
Renfield attempts to remodel the vampire movie to 21st century specifications.
In a thin-obsessed culture, fatness has become its own kind of monster.
Just because something isn’t 100% certain doesn’t mean you ignore it, and other lessons from two researchers who study the problem of science denial.
It’s the story of a man who just wants to get home for Christmas.
There’s something special about “going to the cinema” and the collective experience of watching a film.
A new movie highlights the importance of radical hope and courageous action in responding to the climate crisis
Sgaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife) is a feature film project that works to entertain audiences and revitalize language.
In this episode of Close-up, Bruce Isaacs contrasts the unsettling musical score from Hitchcock’s Psycho with Howard Shore’s score for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
The obstreperous exclamation mark that holds a bullhorn to the title of Darren Aronofsky’s latest film befits both the mounting clamour of the work itself, and a director who, in 48 years, has yet to discover…
The 1975 film Jaws launched the career of a young Steven Spielberg. In this scene, the town’s police chief Martin Brody witnesses the shark’s brutal attack for the first time - taking the viewer along for the ride.
Pop culture has always found something sexy about female fighters, who feature in everything from Sumerian hymns and Greek mythology to the new Wonder Woman film.
Guy Ritchie’s blokey remake of the Arthur legend fails to establish any kind of coherent narrative.
The Guardians of the Galaxy team are rocking the universe again in the latest volume of the science fiction blockbuster. But how does the science stand up to some number crunching?
Bruce Isaacs analyses the deceptively complex closing scene of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Jim Carey and Kate Winslet.
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
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Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Calgary
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Professor of Film and Digital Arts, University of Bristol
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, University of Adelaide
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Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Former Academic Research Fellow, Khalifa University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
