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Gone Gold – The 86th Academy Awards
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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23 March 2014
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Greetings from Happyland
Greetings from Happyland

Klown is a comedy so shockingly funny that I’m not quite sure it’s legal.
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23 March 2014
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The Impact of Star Wars
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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16 March 2014
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It’s more than a lie
It’s more than a lie

I so, so, so want to believe that they’re not lying anymore.
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2 February 2014
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The Ultimate Spectacle
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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19 January 2014
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The ‘Arrival’ of Slavery in Hollywood
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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8 January 2014
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Golden Globes 2014 – Picks

Dr. Garth Twa gives his picks for the Golden Globes 2014.
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8 January 2014
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In the name of entertainment
In the name of entertainment

What a night at the movies costs animal ‘actors’
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6 January 2014
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Making Contact
Making Contact

Exploring book adaptations and the girl-adventurer in contemporary Hollywood Science-Fiction.
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20 November 2013
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The creator of Mary Poppins: Once a mystery, now glimpsed through many lenses
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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18 November 2013
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