Three months in, 2020 was shaping up as another banner year for movies and the cinema industry. The Oscar season was in full swing, with 1917, Little Women, Emma and Richard Jewell among those from prominent directors and making the running with audiences and critics alike. They were backed up by three biopics – Vita … Read More about A forgettable year
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A floral tribute to beauty behind the monastery walls
REFLECTIONS IN A MONASTERY GARDEN, published for ... Read More about A floral tribute to beauty behind the monastery walls
Horror movie full of meaning
A series of real-life terrors has given the year’s ... Read More about Horror movie full of meaning
Reddy stays steady
Female-centred musical biopics seldom stray from ... Read More about Reddy stays steady
Hollywood keeps its best films until last — most years — as the annual awards season looms. Judges’ memories are considered short, so fresher is considered better. The arthouse and festival circuit operates differently, starting with Sundance and then Cannes in May, followed by other influential launch pads such as … Read More about Friendship of convenience
by GEORGE MATYSEK, Jr. BALTIMORE (CNS) — As the Nazi regime systematically killed those it deemed mentally ill or “unproductive”, a fearless bishop of the Diocese of Munster, Germany, took to the pulpit in 1941 to denounce and challenge what was happening. If the right has been given to kill … Read More about 12 historic, inspiring homilies delivered in times of crisis
Korea is not well known as a source of movies for New Zealand audiences, but that is changing. A growing market exists among Korean speakers — as it has for Chinese, Filipino and Indian movies — and distributors are meeting that need. But for non-Korean audiences, many of these fall … Read More about Koreans star on world screen
Music-related movies, as opposed to generic musicals, havebecome a box office juggernaut in the past 12 months. Elton John’s Rocketman ($2.6 million) has jumped to fourth place behind two Marvel blockbusters, Avengers: Endgame ($9.5 million) and Captain Marvel ($4.2 million), and the Disney musical Aladdin ($2.8 million). Last year, Bohemian … Read More about Hard dreams of Nashville
The response to calls for more diversity and racial balance in casts dominates this year’s best film lists. The comic-based blockbusters have started running out of steam and are also trying to change their gender stereotypes. November provides a convenient gap to sum up the year as the pre-Oscar season … Read More about Diversity dominates year’s best films
Far from ignoring American race relations, Hollywood filmmakers have been in the thick of it for decades. The rise of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most recently depicted in LBJ, was accompanied by such classics of the liberal conscience as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967) and In the … Read More about Race drama BlacKkKlansman packs punch
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