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Stellar line-up at 2018 Sydney SciFi Film Festival
Sydney based science fiction fans are in for a treat this month, with the fifth annual SciFi Film Festival running from the 18th to the 21st of October at the Event Cinemas complex in George St. Twenty-five films from eleven countries will screen, showcasing some of the most groundbreaking works of science fiction you’re likely…
Laughter in the Pain: When Movie Humor Crosses the Bigotry Border
Allow me to ask you a few potentially offensive cinema-focused questions. Did you giggle at the line in Woody Allen’s 1975 comedy Love and Death in which Diane Keaton’s character Sonja says of her one true love, “Boris is trying to commit suicide—last week he contemplated inhaling next to an Armenian”? How about chuckle at…
2018 At The Movies: The Story So Far
It’s September. Here in the States, that means the school year is starting and the new car models are coming out. The NFL is revving up. Soon the leaves will turn. And soon, the fancy movies will start appearing. You know the movies I mean. The ones where some producer is looking for an award.…
A Rebuttal to Boots Riley’s Letter Criticizing ‘BlacKkKlansman’
Truth and film. They often go hand in hand. In general, movies based on real-life stories take portions of those tales and weave them into the cinematic fabric. Frequently, these pictures also embellish certain scenes, bits of dialogue, elements of action. If a work is good enough, the audience will find it credible. The best…
Tolerating Intolerance: ‘Silence,’ ‘Get Out’ and the Spectre of Anti-Japanese Bias
How is it that two of the most brilliant, perceptive films about discrimination in cinema history both seem to attack, in a distinctly pejorative way and despite their vital criticisms of intolerance, the same Asian ethnicity? I’m referring to Get Out (2017) and Silence (2016), directed by Jordan Peele and Martin Scorsese, respectively—pictures that I…