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December 17, 2025

Home Alone’s ‘Wet Bandits’ are medical miracles

Adam Taylor, Lancaster University

Behind the festive comedy lies a catalogue of head trauma, spinal injuries and burns that few humans could survive.

December 19, 2024

Rick Sarre, University of South Australia; Ben Livings, University of South Australia; Jennifer McKay, University of South Australia; Matthew Atkinson, University of South Australia; Michelle Fernando, University of South Australia; Paula Zito, University of South Australia, and Sarah Moulds, University of South Australia

From booby-trapping your home to committing larceny, festive films are full of legal conundrums.

December 2, 2020

Daryl Sparkes, University of Southern Queensland

Home Alone is a beloved Christmas classic now 30-years-old – but it gets dark. Really dark.

Adam Taylor
Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Daryl Sparkes
Senior Lecturer, Media Studies and Production, University of Southern Queensland
Michelle Fernando
Associate professor, Adelaide University
Matthew Atkinson
Senior Lecturer and Managing Solicitor Legal Advice Clinic, Adelaide University
Paula Zito
Lecturer in Law, Supervising Solicitor Legal Advice Clinic, Justice & Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide University
Ben Livings
Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
Sarah Moulds
Associate Professor in Law, Adelaide University
Rick Sarre
Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
Jennifer McKay
Professor in Business Law, Adelaide University