I first saw Dogs in Space (written and directed by Richard Lowenstein) when I was in my twenties, some time in the late 1990s, about
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Making stupidity a virtue in Hollywood is dumb
Hollywood has a lot to answer for in its demonisation of experts. In a Hollywood film there’s a good chance that if somebody knows what
The federal budget and the Australian film industry
My piece on how the new federal budget may affect the Australian film industry appeared in the arts opinion column Canvas in The Age and The
Lights, Camera, Action
Sex in cinema should no longer be controversial. But after all those years, and all those clinches, it seems moral guardians are still getting hot
Sting in the Fairytale
The 1812 fairytale Schneewittchen (Little Snow White), by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is a grisly story about a queen whose jealously of her step-daughter’s
Spectacle is not the problem; mediocrity is
This paper was originally delivered as part of The age of the spectacle: developing critical thinking in a time of eye candy panel at the VATE
CINEMA AUTOPSY 