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Bama Rush shines light on the dark underbelly of the college ‘sisterhood’
Rush, the process of assigning college sorority places, is described as a “social stratification ritual”, a form of “competitive femininity”. A new documentary follows young women willing to do whatever it takes.
- by Nell Geraets
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★★★
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Guess what? Nicolas Cage’s vampire comedy doesn’t suck
He may be off-screen for a large part of Renfield, but the actor gives a barnstorming performance as Dracula opposite Nicholas Hoult as his lowly assistant.
- by Jake Wilson
Witchcraft and a mother’s guilt: film probes a shocking French crime
Filmmaker Alice Diop became fascinated by the trial of a woman who left her baby on a beach to die.
- by Jake Wilson
★★
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I’m sorry to say the new Little Mermaid is extremely mediocre
The film is even less imaginative than you’d expect from one of the live-action remakes Disney grinds out relentlessly – and fails to be about anything at all.
- by Jake Wilson
From the Archives, 1993: Campion’s Piano a Cannes success
In 1993, ‘The Piano’ became the first Australian film to win the Palme d’Or while New Zealand-born Jane Campion became the first woman director to win the prize.
- by Lynden Barber and Agencies
How the new Little Mermaid rose above the #NotMyAriel backlash
Halle Bailey, who stars in Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of an animated classic, has a refreshing perspective about her casting as the iconic Ariel.
- by Garry Maddox
Please, make it stop. Disney’s live-action remakes are ruining childhoods
I love and respect the relentless pursuit of money, but how much more of this can we take?
- by Nick Bhasin
Michael Gudinski documentary to premiere at Melbourne Film Festival
The life and times of the late, great music industry figure Michael Gudinski will be celebrated in a documentary that will be unveiled at MIFF in August.
- by Karl Quinn
★★★½
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In 2016, a French-Senegalese woman was accused of infanticide. Her story inspired this compelling movie
In Saint Omer, Kayije Kagame plays a novelist inexplicably drawn to the courtroom as Guslagie Malanda stars as the woman on trial for the murder of her baby.
- by Sandra Hall
Cue the sun: How The Truman Show predicted our obsession with fake reality
It’s 25 years since Peter Weir’s The Truman Show became a hit. No one involved expected the movie to be so hauntingly prophetic.
- by Garry Maddox
The cast of Fast X open up about their roles in the latest movie
Stars including Charlize Theron and Tyrese Gibson talk about what it's like working on Fast X - the 10th film in The Fast and Furious franchise.