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Gone Gold – The 86th Academy Awards
Was 12 Years A Slave really the best picture? Of course not. It wasn’t even the best of the nominated films.
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Greetings from Happyland
Klown is a comedy so shockingly funny that I’m not quite sure it’s legal.
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The Impact of Star Wars
Peter Kramer looks at the story of loss and resurrection that transformed cinema in the late 1970s.
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It’s more than a lie
I so, so, so want to believe that they’re not lying anymore.
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The Ultimate Spectacle
Rather than dismissing Hollywood’s Science Fiction blockbusters as mere rollercoaster rides and empty spectacle, we should take very seriously the opportunities they afford us for extraordinary sensual, emotional, intellectual and spiritual experiences.
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The ‘Arrival’ of Slavery in Hollywood
Has ‘slavery’ finally arrived as a ‘safe’ subject for major motion picture production? If so, why now?
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Golden Globes 2014 – Picks
Dr. Garth Twa gives his picks for the Golden Globes 2014.
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In the name of entertainment
What a night at the movies costs animal ‘actors’
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Making Contact
Exploring book adaptations and the girl-adventurer in contemporary Hollywood Science-Fiction.
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The creator of Mary Poppins: Once a mystery, now glimpsed through many lenses
When biographies are published, authors are usually done and dusted with their subjects’ life. Not so for me. No matter how much I think our relationship has been laid to rest, Pamela Travers always comes back, just like her doppelganger and creation, Mary Poppins. After my biography of the author was published in Australia in 1999,… View Article
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