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What will the future of film look like?
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is a further example of how science, technology, engineering and math illuminate movies – and, in the process, our minds.
As the animated film ‘Bambi’ celebrates its 75th anniversary, a reminder that humans often try to express reality. But once they do, they go back to making art.
Films motivate people to travel to locations previously unknown. In the process, tourists become a lot like spiritual seekers.
Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead’ will be remembered among the first films to use horror as a form of political critique.
The Star Wars saga is interlinked with its merchandising success.
Zoolander 2, anyone?
If you want to know who’s going to win the Oscars, your best bet is the bookmakers.
The Twilight star used a pioneering technique for turning videos into animations which resemble stylised paintings.
Motion capture actors help bring superheroes and fantastical creatures to life on screen. Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in The Hobbit trilogy, is campaigning for these actors to be eligible for Oscars – and it’s time the Academy heeded his call.
The Oujia board’s origins were anything but evil. It emerged, in part, out of a longing to communicate with loved ones who had died during the Civil War.
IBM’s Watson watched hundreds of horror movie trailers and then created its own for the new film Morgan.
The growth in popularity for larger, supportive underwear has, in turn, led to huge amounts of innovation in the sector and a 70,000 mile supply chain.
Countering the Republican nominee’s favourite movies, here are five that he might learn something from.
The president of the Thomas Wolfe Society explains why Law had his work cut out for him when he agreed to portray a man who was “a hydroelectric plant of emotion.”
Netflix’s recent ban on proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is unlikely to provide a long-term cure to content providers’ chronic headaches.
Hollywood moves are always breaking box office records because the industry doesn’t adjust for inflation, which changes the picture considerably.
Southpaw looks set to be a fairly familiar boxing movie. So what can we expect?
The hoopla surrounding the novel’s release is misguided; after all, how much power could a novel written 50 years ago wield in today’s charged environment?
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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