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June 1st, 2007
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Death of the Movie Hero
September 8th, 2003
September 8th, 2003
The movie hero has also had a long time to establish himself. He was in fact born with popular cinema itself, when Henry Walthall formed the Ku Klux Klan to put down the black menace in history’s first blockbuster, Birth of a Nation.
The Kryptonite Factor
August 31st, 2015
August 31st, 2015
Shots of a Superman outfit looking like a Starlight Express reject (no cape! Electric blue!) and Nicholas Cage sashaying around a London hotel room in a supersuit would break the internet if they surfaced today.
Horseplay
May 16th, 2003
May 16th, 2003
A lot of Australian filmmakers seem fixated on anchoring their stories to distinctly Australian institutions, from drag queens to Christopher Skase. Even Muriel’s Wedding tapped into the collective musical nostalgia all Aussie thirtysomethings share about Abba music.
What’s Wrong with Tom Cruise?
June 1st, 2006
June 1st, 2006
For at least some of the last 20 years, he’s been among the biggest movie stars on the planet. Think of the term ‘movie star’ and all it entails and you’ll probably get an image of Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Tom Cruise.
Creative Free For All
June 1st, 2005
June 1st, 2005
A historic experiment in film and media was all ready to take place before a battle erupted between producers and the union. Drew Turney finds out more. One of the observations Naomi Klein makes in her seminal anti-globalisation work No Logo is that the big corporations have got out of the ‘making’ business and into […]
Revving up out West
June 1st, 2005
June 1st, 2005
REVelation is truly the voice of Sowada and many like him in action. It’s not about the jittery politics of making films, bloodthirsty pursuit of the bottom line or maintaining an industry status quo.
NAB: shoot and deliver
NAB2007 attracted the largest array of products and people of any trade ...
Pirates of the Caribbean
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush
Directed by Gore Verbinski
For ...
September 1st, 2003
Too Soon?
With a culture based so strongly around entertainment in the western world, ...
August 27th, 2006
The New Cartoon
There's a scene in Dreamworks' Over The Hedge where opossum Ozzie, voiced ...
July 15th, 2006
Batman Ends
2005's Batman Begins, from the Chicago-based, UK-born writer/director Christopher Nolan, was a ...
July 25th, 2012
How Hollywood Murdered the Blockbuster
Steven Spielberg invented the blockbuster, but what kind of terror hath he ...
November 20th, 2015