The Backrooms began with a single image: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
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Online platforms like Reddit and Wattpad let writers test their skills for an audience – and provide a testing ground for Hollywood, too, through likes and upvotes.
Most of Errol Flynn’s films now seem B-grade at best – but Patricia O'Brien’s biography of this Tasmanian devil is compulsive reading.
Steven Soderbergh’s new film raises important questions about authenticity, creative ownership and racism in the art world.
Our picks for this week include two striking exhibitions and Japan’s highest-grossing live-action film of all time.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 shows how fashion operates as a language of identity, signalling status, ambition and belonging.
The film asks what makes a star kabuki actor – hard work or blood?
We’re living in a golden age of close reading.
From smoking and drinking to body image and stigma, screen stories can shape how audiences think about health, risk and what counts as normal.
The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language.
For more than a decade, self-professed cinephiles have flocked to the studio for edgy content. But how long can it retain its cult status?
When I saw the Brazilian film The Blue Trail at the Leeds Film Festival earlier this year, it felt like a breath of fresh air.
Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster entailed.
The Blue Trail is a thoroughly original story in which two older women are capable of newness, independence and transformation against all odds.
Akira is considered one of the big-three classics of cyberpunk.
If a straightforward happy ending is what you are after, Departures is not the film for you.
Paddington in the books is an incredibly sincere, polite bear who takes the rules a little too literally.
Fashion, film, Nazi mythology and a film to scare the bejasus out of you this week.
This film offers an invitation to return and reflect on Camus’ work.
Hoppers arrives 17 years after Wall-E, Pixar’s last overtly environmentally themed film.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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