Sutherland lent his star status to acting projects dissecting political and psychological aspects of fascism, including work with Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and singer Kate Bush.
From M*A*S*H to the Hunger Games, Donald Sutherland, who has died at 88, always sat well in the eccentric, peculiar or ‘quirky’ roles.
‘Slash/Back,’ directed by Nyla Innuksuk, follows a group of Inuit girls who fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
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The Winnipeg-based series has screened over 100 films in multiple genres by Indigenous filmmakers, and brings filmmakers together with audiences as a form of public education.
Ennui is voiced by Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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Arcadian manages to be both highly derivative and also quite unusual. It is part thriller, part creature feature and part horror.
An image from Nintendo’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Nintendo has made effective use of nostalgia to turn the Mario series into the best-selling video game franchise of all time and one of the largest multi-media properties on Earth.
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Nostalgia can provide emotional relief during times of stress, a fact which the entertainment industry takes full advantage of to profit off of the anxiety of Millenials and Gen Z.
Tom Sizemore and Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan.
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D-Day has drawn the attention of numerous filmmakers over the years. Here are ten of the best D-Day films, each showing the invasion’s prominent place in international memory.
The film’s focus on Furiosa’s amputation exploits disability, and closes down the related commentary and critique previously expanded in each progressive Mad Max film.
The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, apocalyptic world known in the movies as ‘the wasteland’ – what does this tell us about the Australian environment?
Bad-guy sensei John Kreese, played by Martin Kove, threatens Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and Mr Miyagi (Pat Morita) in The Karate Kid.
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Did the beloved 1980s teen classic The Karate Kid perpetuate Orientalist stereotypes?
Jay Baruchel and Emily Hampshire play siblings in the satirical ‘Humane,’ where people are asked to enlist for euthanasia to avoid human extinction.
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Faced with a darkly satirical vision that hardly seems sensationalist, the audience might wish for compassionate thinking to combat ecological disaster and precarious resources.