Special Feature: Wong Kar Wai – a reappraisal
Wong Kar Wai is no stranger to controversy – from the dark shades he always seems to have on to the lack of scripts...
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4 April 2024
Vegas on screen: a self-guided tour through cinema history
Las Vegas is a glitzy, glamorous destination, and has been for more than seventy years. While many tourists visit the Nevadan city thanks to its outstanding casinos and entertainment shows, movie buffs will find that it provides much in the shape of cinema history. If you’re planning a trip to Sin City, then consider swinging by the following attractions; you’ll be walking through cinematic history.
11 March 2024
Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps the board
The winners of this year’s 96th Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning at LA’s Dolby Theatre. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner on the night, scooping seven Oscars in total including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
10 March 2024
Oscars 2024: Our final predictions
The Barbenheimer phenomenon reaches its natural denouement tonight at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, with Christopher Nolan’s colossal Oppenheimer expected to sweep most of the major accolades. Barbie will likely have to make do with a handful of craft awards, while foreign language festival hits Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest continue the trend of international features breaking into the main categories.
Features
Special Feature: The Japanese gender issue
The celebration of the female director has become paramount to film festivals globally. This years, The Japan Foundation dedicated their annual touring film program to...
Special Feature: Studio Ghibli – the Japanese Disney?
In 2002, the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature with the seminal Spirited Away (2001). To this day, it has...
Special Feature: Australian cinema – a broken industry?
Australia always seems to be in some kind of crisis. If the country isn’t stressing over its cultural identity, its busy ripping into its...
Special Feature: How ‘lo’ can you go?
Is it possible to hypothesise that the introduction 3D film providing a new lease of life for the ‘dying’ industry of cinema? In some...
Special Feature: The agenda of the rerelease
Re-edited, re-scored and re-sold. Up to now, we have seen the cinematic rerelease not only as a tool for revealing ‘never-before-seen’ footage, but conversely...
Special Feature: Is ‘X2’ the greatest comic book adaptation?
I saw Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass (2010) for the second time last night and I can honestly say the film loses none of its edge...
Special Feature: Dazed and Confused
‘Generation Y’, filled to the brim with jobless university graduates and unemployed professionals are currently facing a very thinly-spread job market. According to the...
