The killer robot is far from a simple villain. It is a mirror held up to cultural questions we have about human autonomy and responsibility in the digital age.
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The film is a poignant and comical exploration of music, loss, nostalgia and hope.
Some of the women who A League of their Own was based on came out as LGBTQ+ later in life.
28 Years Later left my cinema theatre weeping. Take tissues.
Rector’s son Stephen must come to terms with the complexity of his desires while grappling with societal pressure and religious guilt.
Jaws was only the second feature film for the 28-year-old Steven Spielberg – and it would become a cultural smash.
Jaws was a film shaped by Jewish writers, ideas and a very personal connection to the shark.
From unsettling horror thrillers to intergenerational social satires, here are the top five films of this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
It’s ironic that many characters are offended by an animal capable of instinct alone, when they as humans – capable of reason and choice – behave so badly.
Archetypal components of western genre – gold hunting and revenge – are mashed up with a samurai-sword-wielding heroine.
Tornado demonstrates the continuing international influence of the Japanese samurai film.
The differences between live action and animation are not as pronounced as might be expected in films made 15 years apart.
This is Verona as filtered through a Eurovision lens.
Lollipop is the polar opposite of middle class fantasies of working class life.
While Trump’s proposal to impose 100 per cent tariffs on foreign films may prove to be more bluster than policy, it reflects language ideologies that have long constrained the American film industry.
The recent U.S. announcement to tax and ban foreign films may seem out of place in trade talks. But culture has long been a key part of North American trade relations.
The music and life of Black women is memorialised in mainstream media in ways that rarely recognise their wholeness and the true extent of their work’s impact.
This week we recommend hilarious TV, a scary film and a thought-provoking memoir.
The film’s vampire, Remmick, has come to Mississippi from Ireland.
We’re celebrating 80 years of the Moomins with a special film screening and a panel discussion.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of Film Studies
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Lecturer, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Professor of Cinema, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Lecturer in Creative Production and Performance, Western Sydney University
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Researcher and Sessional Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies; Secretary for the Melbourne Cinematheque, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Media Studies and Production, University of Southern Queensland