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Gene Hackman in The Poseidon Adventure. Image: 20th Century Studios
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RIP Gene Hackman, who'll be remembered as one of the Hollywood greats

Will Jeffery celebrates Gene Hackman's legacy, a Hollywood great whose commanding performances left a lasting impact.

Paddington in Peru. Image: STUDIOCANAL
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Paddington in Peru: how a little bear teaches us about kindness and family

Paddington in Peru explores themes of kindness and family in a journey to reconnect with his roots.

Audrey. Image: Rialto.
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Would you be better off without your kids? Audrey cheekily asks the question

Audrey is a quintessentially Aussie dark comedy that questions the sacrifices of motherhood.

Woman of the Hour. Image: Leah Gallo/Netflix. Best 3 new films.
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Woman of the Hour: reframing true crime in a post-#MeToo era

Anna Kendrick’s unflinching directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, reframes a real crime for a post-#MeToo era.

The Cars That Ate Paris. Image: New Line Cinema.
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Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris – a driving force in Ozploitation filmmaking

How The Cars That Ate Paris shaped Ozploitation film culture.

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The Blair Witch Project at 25: how one film changed the horror genre

The Blair Witch Project popularised the low budget 'found-footage' horror genre and inspired a generation of indie filmmakers.

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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.

The End We Start From. Image: Paramount/Apple/Prime
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‘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.

Australian Documentary A Fire Inside.
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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. Image: Warner Bros. Pictures/ Streaming on Prime Video.
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Challengers: a competition psychology expert weighs in

Challengers fuses sex and sport in a straightforward but effective way, says a psychology expert.

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