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.
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MIFF 2017 made good on its promise to explore new worlds, with timely films on American civil rights, Indigenous music, and queer activism. Here’s our pick of the ones to see.
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.
His films made more than US$2 billion, but did they do him justice?
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.
Moviegoers get a hint of why Dunkirk stayed with those who lived through it, but an online archive of survivors’ stories offers more depth.
The 1975 film Jaws launched the career of a young Steven Spielberg. In this scene, the town’s police chief Martin Brody witnesses the shark’s brutal attack for the first time - taking the viewer along for the ride.
According to a recent study, horror is the only film genre where women appear and speak as often as men.
Watching David Stratton’s loving recall of Australian films of the past 50 years over the past three weeks on the ABC, makes you realise how much impact they have had on us all. As one actor says, our…
The new mummy film is the latest foray into ‘shared universes’, the seemingly critic-proof movie juggernauts that have come to dominate our cinemas.
Father is a Hollywood great, but daughter is on course to take her own place in the movie pantheon.
Pop culture has always found something sexy about female fighters, who feature in everything from Sumerian hymns and Greek mythology to the new Wonder Woman film.
Guy Ritchie’s blokey remake of the Arthur legend fails to establish any kind of coherent narrative.
Ripley beat the patriarchy and a rampaging xenomorph - but Daniels isn’t even given the chance.
History movies may have Oscar potential, but their educational potential is more complicated. Should teachers use Hollywood to teach?
The Guardians of the Galaxy team are rocking the universe again in the latest volume of the science fiction blockbuster. But how does the science stand up to some number crunching?
Don’t listen to the headlines linking binge watching to depression and loneliness. It can be a positive experience – but only if we think of it as a good thing.
If you make science entertaining then people are prepared to pay attention.
Bruce Isaacs analyses the deceptively complex closing scene of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Jim Carey and Kate Winslet.
Expectations were high for a politically-charged awards ceremony. But Oscars 2017 was tame compared to the past.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, York University, Canada
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Distinguished Professor of Religion, University of Florida