A range of films spanning different eras confronts viewers with the same question: ‘What if all that hard work isn’t really worth it?’
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When September melancholy hits Simmone Howell, she escapes the cold Melbourne spring to Gavin Lambert’s Los Angeles – and his ‘tough, kooky’ adolescent fantasy figure, Daisy Clover.
Heat 2, the literary sequel to Michael Mann’s classic cops-and-robbers film, is weird. Would it stand alone as a novel? Possibly not. But reading it is an incredibly pleasurable experience.
Movies carrying the NC-17 rating have traditionally been difficult to screen and promote, as they were locked out of some movie theater chains and traditional advertising.
China is seen as Africa’s saviour and friend in the film - which is still full of racist stereotypes.
Our expert saw around 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, and presents their top picks.
Blood Sisters is untypical of Nollywood’s normal fair in a number of ways. It chooses thrill over romance and challenges taboos.
The Afrobeat star used music to promote and preserve his Yoruba culture - while entertaining diverse global influences.
In their press rounds, director Peter Jackson and Paul McCartney have been eager to recast the legacy of the band’s final years.
From the indie to the blockbuster, Halloween viewing recommendations whatever your taste.
A wave of new horror films leant into Tony Blair’s Asbo policy demonising young working class men, portraying them as the monsters that society should be scared of.
Streaming platforms have introduced to thousands of hyper-specific categories and genres that shape our tastes.
In a time of increasingly complex geopolitical entanglements and moral failings, these films articulate a yearning for unsullied heroism, effective leadership and appropriate responses to crises.
Climate disasters are drawing comparisons to apocalyptic films. Their happy endings may have given us a false sense of hope.
From The Drover’s Wife to a new Wes Anderson to the long-awaited Dune, it will be good to be back in cinemas again.
In Lagos, cinema audiences don’t go to the movies for the film alone. There’s more.
For a film that was destined to do so much wrong, this does a surprising amount right. And in an era of relentlessly ‘clever’ films and knowing reboots, Face the Music has a refreshingly light touch.
John Wyndham’s book The Midwich Cuckoos is set to be adapted for the screen for the third time. The tale of otherworldly children resonates with audiences today as much as it did in 1957.
The idea of isolation has inspired many great films over the years. Here are a few of the best.
Viewing Nigerian movies is seen as a trip down memory lane, a virtual journey back home and group therapy for Africans in the diaspora.
Top contributors
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Roehampton
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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PhD Candidate, Film Theory and Media Industries, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education, Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, King's College London
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Creative & Cultural Industries, De Montfort University
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Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Associate Dean, The University of Melbourne