Age-gap relationships between Millennial women and Gen Z men are on the rise

Aug 01, 2024 22:12 pm UTC| Entertainment

Hollywoods obsession with age hypogamy relationships between older women and younger men never gets old. More than 50 years after The Graduate, a film where Mrs. Robinson, an older woman, propositions a young male...

Deadpool & Wolverine is fun for die-hard Marvel fans – but it won’t save the MCU

Jul 29, 2024 11:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Lets start with the good stuff. Deadpool Wolverine is a fun, irreverent and blood-soaked summer blockbuster that fans of the Deadpool franchise are going to love. Ryan Reynolds returns as Wade Wilson (Deadpool), and...

The Decameron: Netflix’s raunchy, raucous re-imagining of a medieval plague masterpiece

Jul 27, 2024 12:55 pm UTC| Entertainment

Giovanni Boccaccios The Decameron (1353) is a classic plague book. It follows ten noble people quarantining together in a beautiful villa in the Italian countryside. They have fled Florence where in 1348, when the story is...

The Turkish Detective: a familiar tale in a new setting

Jul 17, 2024 08:21 am UTC| Entertainment

In the not so very distant past of British television, capers in the company of avuncular, maverick detectives were the ratings sureties around which peak-time drama schedules were built. Although viewing figures are much...

Netflix’s A Family Affair tries to reject old stories of sexual women being ‘bad mothers’. Too bad it’s a terrible film

Jul 04, 2024 06:30 am UTC| Entertainment

A Family Affair is Netflixs latest entry in the recently resuscitated rom-com genre. The streaming giants film execs have described the revival as a tactical decision to plug and capitalise on an identified gap in the...

I watched some 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Here are my top five picks – and one hilarious flop

Jun 20, 2024 05:39 am UTC| Entertainment

This years Sydney Film Festivals rich offerings of films more than compensated for the minor technical issues that led to some screenings being interrupted. Out of the 40-odd films I saw, here are my top five, along...

Mothers have long been absent from dystopian stories. ‘Maternal cli-fi’ is changing the narrative

Jun 20, 2024 05:27 am UTC| Entertainment

Writing over 30 years ago, feminist film scholar E. Ann Kaplan famously described mothers in cinema as an absent presence background figures that might facilitate the narrative but who are rarely, if ever, its focus. I...