Moviemakers have long been attracted to extremes in religious faith. This has ranged from hellfire and brimstone preachers in westerns…
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Avalanche drama reinvented
Odd as it may seem to filmgoers, subtitles for foreign-language movies are the exception rather than the rule. The recent…
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War story bids for Oscar
Accusations of “whitewashing” and calls for racial and gender quotas again accompanied the 2020 Oscar nominations. Sheer merit alone, judged…
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Netflix’s top 10 of the year
More than one in three New Zealand households subscribe to Netflix, the global heavyweight among streaming services, to watch movies…
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Friendship of convenience
Hollywood keeps its best films until last — most years — as the annual awards season looms. Judges’ memories are…
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