Tag: Movies
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SFF 2023: Hirokazu Kore-eda finds humanity in Monster’s misconstrued world of perspectives
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. Hirokazu Kore-eda has built his works on a repeated message: there is inherent goodness in all people that makes them human. Morality has been communicated through unlikely family dynamics in Shoplifters (2018) and Broker…
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Science FACT-ion #4: Artificial Intelligence
By Riley Hughes “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”. – HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) Artificial Intelligence has perhaps become one of the most used tropes in science fiction. Whether it be as murderous robots (The Terminator (1984) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)), or as near omnipresent programs (The Matrix…
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The Personal Cinema of Paweł Pawlikowski
By Kevin Ding His films are laced with lyricism, often evoking deep emotions without sentimentality. They are old-fashioned yet timely, personal yet universal. This has made Paweł Pawlikowski a formidable force in world cinema. He was born in 1957 in a Poland that was undergoing grand political changes. At age fourteen, he and his mother…
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La Belle Époque Review: Whimsical and Witty Exploration of Romance Over Time
By Angela Higginbottom La Belle Époque, meaning ‘The Good Times’, is one of the most riveting and touching films I have ever seen. Part of the 31st annual Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, this charming and charismatic film explores how romance grows and changes in old age. The film tells the story of a married…