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New research suggests if 3D films make you dizzy it’s probably all in your mind.
The latest Terminator film marks a recovery from its predecessors, but it’s treatment of time travel is still implausible.
The American film Dear White People has seen some controversy over its UK release. Here’s why.
The recently released Les Combattants is just the latest addition to a fast-expanding body of Hollywood-style rom-coms to come out of France.
Movie sets shot on location can leave a lasting effect. But compared to other industries, their impacts are small.
The latest Jurassic World movie has been criticised for its less than accurate portrayal of some of the dinosaurs. But how we imagine they looked and behaved has changed many times over the years.
The Look of Silence eschews its predecessor’s gory glamour and offers a harder message for modern Indonesia.
Success as a screenwriter takes as much tenacity as talent.
The film-maker’s latest project is perfectly in tune with a 30-year career spent chronicling the African-American urban experience.
Bond has been subject to many further adventures under different authors, and they’re a mixed bag, to say the least.
Watch The Shining after reading this and you may find that the Czech author haunts The Overlook Hotel just as much, if not more, than any of its regular spectral figures.
Speaking with Jason Dittmer on superheroes and fascism
America's flirtations with fascism in the 1930s and the influence of the Second World War gave rise to nationalistic, quasi-fascist superheroes who are still relevant and popular today.
This astounding film focuses on the contradictions that ensue when a human is caught in a place being used as an explosive, abstracted political football.
The film is a brilliant and nuanced study of the relationship between a younger and older woman.
Cannes manages to project a level of gravitas and glitter that is the envy of its rivals the world over.
Paul Walker is only the most recent dead actor to appear on screen. But as the technology develops, what are the legal and ethical limits?
Without labouring the point, Xavier Dolan’s new film explores the hemmed in existence of the mobile generation.
Still Alice tells a story that is worth telling: any debate is better than none.
Should robots be treated with the same concern as any other intelligent being? Or are they unnatural, dangerous, to be eliminated?
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