Paramount’s A$156 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discover benefits Donald Trump, Netflix and some of the richest men in Hollywood. That’s about it.
- Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
Netflix has announced its planned acquisition of Warner Bros with a deal valued at US$82.7 billion. What will this mean for filmgoing?
New research finds 83% of surveyed Australian parents say it is important their children see Australian-made programs.
The first Black Panther film was a milestone in Black representation on-screen – now it is hoped Wakanda Forever will be both a mirror and a spotlight for millions of Latin Americans.
Australian children’s television is a leader in onscreen queer representations, due in part to its primarily cultural role.
Research shows that adults, even without kids, have used lockdown and the advent of streaming services, to revisit the shows they enjoyed as children.
‘Bush wees’, family games, vasectomy decisions … new research considers why the Emmy award-winning animated series Bluey is so popular — and finds it can be read on many levels.
A stage musical adaptation is just the newest addition to the cottage industry which is Round The Twist nostalgia.
The pandemic pause on local children’s television content has become policy. Now what for kids’ TV?
As a comic hero, Wonder Woman’s antecedents reach back to the suffragettes. And a long awaited feature film offers us a fittingly feminist story.
From Wonder Woman to Doctor Strange, superheroes are at peak popularity. As political orthodoxies across the world fall away, these flawed, but good-hearted characters speak to modern anxieties.
Australia’s first Indigenous superhero can heal like Wolverine and hear the voices of the Dreamtime. Superhero expert Dr Liam Burke sat down with Cleverman cast and crew to talk powers and politics.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has committed performances and Zack Snyder’s trademark action. But it can’t overcome a confused internal logic – and has the colour palette of an ashtray.
Quentin Tarantino has secured his place in popular culture by reaching into neglected corners of cinema for genres that are ready for reinvention and rediscovery.
It was the year of the grown-up superhero. Dark, witty and complex, superheroes on the big and small screen have – mostly – matured past mindless violence.
As Benedict Cumberbatch prepares to return to 221B Baker Street for a Sherlock Christmas Special, a great, unsolved mystery remains: what is the source of the detective’s enduring appeal?
Avengers: Age of Ultron, released this week, is one of many superhero films destined for the multiplex in the coming months and years. What’s behind this trend? And what kind of villain would be powerful enough to stop it in its tracks?
This year the world’s most popular superhero, Batman, celebrates his 75th birthday. From inauspicious beginnings in a six-page comic to the transmedia anchor of one of the world’s largest media conglomerates…
Cinema did not emerge from a eureka moment, but rather through the incremental innovations of pioneers such as the Lumière brothers, Étienne-Jules Marey and Thomas Edison. So it is unsurprising that filmmakers…
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