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Trump versus Marvel: Why Captain America has run into trouble
Disney has a lot riding on this latest Avengers film so it’s unfortunate it’s run into trouble among fervid MAGA supporters.
- Alexander Larman
January
Who really took the Vietnam War’s most iconic photo?
Photographs don’t come much more influential than ‘Napalm Girl’, the 1972 image that supposedly hastened the end of the Vietnam War. But now its provenance has been sensationally disputed.
- Jada Yuan
What the movies get wrong about architecture
Oscar nominee ‘The Brutalist’ and Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ perpetuate a colossal cliche: the image of practitioners as lone, tortured geniuses.
- Edwin Heathcote
Oscars snub as lead actresses shut out of nominations
Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman were tipped for best actress nominations, but members of the film academy had something different in mind.
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- Lindsey Bahr
Better Man tanked, but Aussie filmmakers want more of its boldness
Made in Melbourne, the $110 million Robbie Williams biopic flopped, but some in the industry want taxpayer funding diverted to such chutzpah, and less to a rump of local films few people watch.
- Michael Bodey and Michael Bailey
How ‘glacial’ Nicole became Hollywood’s most sexually daring star
There are plenty of Kidman turns that give the lie to any dim notion she’s a glacial or inhibited performer, or carefully “classy” in a Grace Kelly way.
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- Tim Robey
Mel Gibson among Trump ‘envoys’ to sort out ‘troubled’ Hollywood
The president-elect announced on his social media site this week that three actors would be his eyes and ears to the movie-making town.
- Lindsey Bahr and Jill Colvin
Guy Pearce: ‘People think I f---ed my career’
He’s the Hollywood actor who shrugged when stardom beckoned – and now finds himself touted for Oscar glory.
- Guy Kelly
The wild, AI-assisted biopic Putin doesn’t want you to see
Polish director Patryk Vega’s film may well prove less controversial for what it says than for how it says it.
- Boris Starling
Why Hollywood keeps casting the same five actors in everything
Australian Jacob Elordi is among this famous five – although he is expected to be the only one not to play a Beatle next year.
- Tim Robey
Why Coppola has no qualms blowing the family fortune
Francis Ford Coppola’s films have always provoked strong reactions but as he quips, the things “they fire you for are the same they give you lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old”.
- Jada Yuan
December 2024
Lin-Manuel Miranda on Mufasa and the secret to a Disney hit
The Hamilton creator, who crafted the soundtrack for the new prequel to The Lion King, reflects on writing songs that have universal appeal.
- Sarah Bahr
It’s a Wonderful Life is a ritual, but its darkness must be dealt with
The organisers of a festival celebrating Frank Capra’s classic holiday film are finally tackling the difficult subject at its heart.
- Erik Piepenburg
Five grown-up films for a sequel-free Boxing Day
Hollywood’s obsession with rehashes carries on to the biggest day of the year for Australian cinema owners, but there are some flicks for discerning adults.
- Michael Bodey
How the Queen’s death cost this Aussie filmmaker $1m
A Melbourne-based producer and director somehow raised $100 million to make a movie starring Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey. It didn’t all go smoothly.
- Patrick Durkin
Cate Blanchett swears she’s not Angela Merkel in zombie movie
She’s played a monstrous maestro, elf queen and bounty hunter – now the Oscar-winning actress is taking on our narcissistic world leaders.
- Julia Llewellyn Smith
November 2024
This Rich Lister has a plan to save cinema (and his business)
Blackmagic Design’s Grant Petty hopes his new camera, which shoots at 16 times the standard image quality, can lift box-office sales and those of his company too.
- Michael Bailey
Hollywood gives thanks as blockbusters set to soar
Studios bet “Wicked”, “Gladiator II” and “Moana 2” will kick off a strong holiday season at the box office in the United States and globally.
- Christopher Grimes
Why screen villains always play golf
Short of kicking a puppy, there’s no more reliable signifier of utter rottenness than a man – and it is always a man – playing golf.
- Peter Swain
AI made Tom Hanks 18 years old again. Unlike colleagues, he’s a fan
Hollywood is divided over whether artificial intelligence is a boon to creativity, or a vapid destroyer of jobs.
- Devin Gordon