A silent German film from 1918 was one of cinema’s first dramatic presentations of queer love. Over a century later, and the story of love in a hostile social environment still resounds.
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The movie offers both Hollywood history and Cruise’s presence as weapons of human resistance to the hazards of AI in filmmaking.
Fondly known as the King of Bollywood, Khan’s cinematic influence on Indian cinema is a story that transcends borders and generations.
As artificial intelligence becomes mainstream, its infiltration into children’s lives is causing tremendous anxiety.
Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase is misleading.
Oppenheimer’s knowledge of Sanskrit literature was more than cursory. He used quotes and parables from Sanskrit texts as a guide to right actions in his life.
Movie tickets are nearly always the same price, whether the film is a flop or a sold-out blockbuster. Why? And how much more does a trip to the movies cost than 20 years ago?
Horror filmmakers are wrestling with space in cities and what it means to share it.
Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
AI might not yet be able to create leading performances from an actor’s likeness but the jobs of those in the background are far less safe.
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
Jurassic Park was a technological breakthrough for film because of its use of CGI. It also revived an interest in paleontology and raised ethical questions about DNA use.
The Hollywood actors’ strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
If you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic, then it’s likely you will have seen other films influenced by it.
The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.
Here was Bergman, director of such sombre film classics as The Seventh Seal (1957). What could he possibly have in common with Ang Lee, director of 2003’s Hulk?
Rhyddhawyd Jurassic Park ar y sgrin fawr ym mis Mehefin 1993 a newidiodd sinema am byth.
Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.
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