The new Netflix documentary Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story does very well to ground itself in Mormon culture.
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We can help adolescents face their own Upside Down with care.
Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry doesn’t quite capture all of the nuances of a gay male relationship. Jacob Tierney’s adaptation does.
The much beloved and best-selling picture book series The Pout-Pout Fish comes to the big screen, with mixed results.
Heated Rivalry depicts a sporting world where queer joy, acceptance and belonging is not only possible, but is enthusiastically embraced.
These three Bluey episodes retell stories from the Christian, Buddhist and Taoist faiths.
The new ABC mini-series Goolagong is a rags-to-riches story about a small-town girl with a ball and a piece of 2 x 4 who dreams of one day winning Wimbledon.
We urgently need to teach young people ‘conversational literacy’.
The actor, singer, fashion icon and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at 91.
A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy that reminds us why cinema matters.
For five decades, the image was attributed to Associate Press photographer Nick Út. But a documentary recently released on Netflix is challenging this.
Rob Reiner, the celebrated Hollywood director whose diverse filmography was loved by a broad array of audiences, has died at 78.
Heat is a sprawling, epic crime thriller that profoundly shaped contemporary Hollywood action cinema. Much imitated, it has never been surpassed.
Netflix has announced its planned acquisition of Warner Bros with a deal valued at US$82.7 billion. What will this mean for filmgoing?
In 1955, Ealing Studios released The Ladykillers, a darkly comic tale about a gang of criminals whose bank robbery gets derailed by their elderly landlady.
The horror film genre is driven by sound as much as image. Anxiety thrives not in what we can see, but in what we can’t.
Christmas films have long given us schmaltz. Oh. What. Fun. gives us disenchanted, disgruntled maternal point of view.
Alongside some fresh Christmas flicks, there’s another ‘Carol’ featured in this month’s wrap – but this one is miserable, and trying to evade aliens.
Much of The Beast in me is sensitive, sophisticated storytelling. So why is this sacrificed for a gratuitous depiction of violence against women?
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom has been described by film critics as ‘essential to have seen but impossible to watch’.
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