Tag: Film
In the new Disney Pixar movie Lightyear, time gets bendy. Is time travel real, or just science fiction?
Image: Disney/Pixar
Spoiler alert: this article explains a key plot point, but we don’t give away anything you won’t see in trailers.
At the beginning...
How making a film exploring Indigenous stories of the night sky enriched my perspective as a scientist
Ilgari Inyayimaha (Shared Sky), painted by artists Margaret Whitehurst, Jenny Green, Barbara Merritt, Charmaine Green, Kevin Merritt, Sherryl Green, Tracey Green, Wendy Jackamarra,...
Unpacking In The Heights’ choreographic film references, from Busby Berkeley to West Side Story
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Part of the joy of a musical is that song and dance can...
How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films
The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...
Guide to the classics: My Brilliant Career and its uncompromising message for girls today
National Film & Sound Archive
Growing up in Australia in the 1970s, I much preferred the hijinks of Han Solo and Chewie to Princess Leia’s sexualised...
Australia’s drive-ins: where you can wear slippers, crack peanuts, and knit ‘to your heart’s content’
Picture: cinematreasures.org
We have seen many changes in Australian’s consumption of media during isolation.
There has been an increase in television viewing; cinemas were forced to close (although some have...