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Netflix’s A Family Affair rejects stories of sexual women as ‘bad mothers’ – but it’s a terrible film.
Starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron, A Family Affair fails in its mission to challenge stereotypes about sexual mothers.
‘Maternal cli-fi’: the new genre changing up the absent-mother narrative in cinema
How The End We Start From boosted maternal cli-fi, a genre spotlighting mothers in worlds destroyed by natural disasters.
Energy, climate and corporate ties in Australian documentary
The links between promotion and philanthropy in the documentary sector have a long history. What have we learnt?
Challengers: a competition psychology expert weighs in
Challengers fuses sex and sport in a straightforward but effective way, says a psychology expert.
Four Daughters is a Tunisian masterpiece – what makes the film groundbreaking?
Delve into the story behind Four Daughters – a critically lauded documentary about a family versus an extremist group.
Anatomy of a Fall is a critique of anti-feminist backlash
With sexism on the rise in France, Anatomy of a Fall examines the role of motherhood and domestic labour in…
The Zone of Interest: new Holocaust film powerfully lays bare the mechanisms of genocide
The Zone of Interest uses alienation from its central horror to make it one of the most unsettling holocaust films…
Godzilla Minus One offers an insight into the complexity of Japan’s war memories
The human cost of war is the real villain of the Oscar nominated Godzilla Minus One,
Napoleon: busting myths in the new Ridley Scott movie
Did Napoleon really fire at the pyramids? A historian explains the truth behind the legends of Ridley Scott’s biopic.
The creativity of William Friedkin: from arthouse to Oscars
American director William Friedkin, once a crucial driver of New Hollywood in the 70s, has died at 87 years of…
