The average shot length in Moulin Rouge! is under two seconds. While acceptable for an action movie, nothing like this had ever been done in a musical.
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It wasn’t the only crimson-coloured attraction to open in Paris in 1889. Now, 135 years later, it has not lost its appeal.
Looking for something to dive into summer with? Our critics have you sorted.
Aussiewood sprinkled its star dust at this year’s 80th Golden Globes with five nominations and an acting win for Cate Blanchett.
Everyone knows the Elvis story, but what’s less known is the story of the Black women singers and musicians who forged the way.
Elvis is full of Luhrmann’s signature self-indulgence, inflated budget and artistic grandiosity – I loved it.
The ten-time Tony winning production has finally hit Australian stages. It remains faithful to its flamboyant parent movie but features a revamped score and a fiercely talented local lineup.
It was the film that put the gangsta in Shakespeare: loud, brash, and brimming with pistols and gold chains.
Status anxiety and conspicuous consumption generate a dazzling, often surreal poetry in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. But Gatsby’s rise and fall exposes deep fissures underlying the American Dream.
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