Film
Arts & Culture
Your must-see MIFF films of 2024
The Melbourne International Film Festival showcases hundreds of films from around the world – here are five highlights to get you started
Arts & Culture
Quiz
Quiz: 100 years of Disney vs Warner Bros.
As two giants of Hollywood’s culture-defining studios turn 100 this year – Warner Bros. and Disney – test your knowledge about their creative history
Arts & Culture
These five films are a ‘must see’ at MIFF 2023
There’s no need to be overwhelmed by the movie schedule at the Melbourne International Film Festival with these hot tips
Health & Medicine
Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began
While no film can convey everything about nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer is a timely reminder of how fallible humans created the first weapons that could destroy our world
Arts & Culture
A doll is just a doll is just a doll
The new Barbie movie has renewed discussion about the message she sends and feminism – but it’s really just the fallacy of plastic role models
Arts & Culture
Provocative women in cinema
The cliché of the ‘sensitive’ woman filmmaker ignores the long history of confronting female-directed movies
Arts & Culture
Zanuckville: Australia’s strangest suburb?
In the 1950s, the Hollywood Western came to Australia, but the cast and crew needed somewhere to stay. The South Australian government came up with ‘Zanuckville’
Arts & Culture
The Oscars shift from big screen to TV stream
Apple TV+’s best picture win for CODA crowned a night of important firsts at the Oscars, but what a streaming win means for the future of cinema is still to be seen
Arts & Culture
Technodystopia: Are we heading towards a real-world Blade Runner?
In 1982, Blade Runner floored audiences with its technodystopian depiction of the future. Almost 40 years on, some of these projections seem eerily accurate
Arts & Culture
The poem behind the Green Knight
The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is now a movie, but the poem itself already has a surprisingly contemporary message about tradition, modernity and our sense of self