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Companion review: this sleek but violent film asks interesting ethical questions about our relationship with AI

Science fiction film and television has long been fascinated by robots. But stories that show us uncannily human cyborgs have often tended to veer towards either comedy or horror. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) both imagine a world where beautiful female cyborgs threaten to overstep…

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95 Years Ago, a Legendary Director's Innovative Sci-Fi Movie Eerily Predicted the Space Race

Forty years before man walked on the moon, Fritz Lang depicted space travel as a shocking reality.

Inverse

100 Years Ago, a Forgotten Russian Epic Secretly Inspired the the Most Iconic Sci-Fi Movie Ever

Science fiction would look completely different without Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' but the famous German epic wasn't born out of thin air.

Inverse

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32 movies that revolutionized VFX

These landmark movies took VFX to the bleeding edge

Total Film

Janelle Monáe: ‘I have to feel a film role in my pubic hairs. They have to vibrate’

As she prepares for a UK tour – including Glastonbury – the singer and actor answers your questions on Prince, what makes her blush, and why we shouldn’t ostracise AI

The Guardian - UK

20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

Hypnotic and the best conspiracy thrillers

The enjoyably daft sci-fi twister starring Ben Affleck is a good jumping-off point for classic intrigues ranging from The 39 Steps and JFK to Soylent Green and The Net

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Writers protest strikes out Melbourne mega-series Metropolis

Metropolis, a series that was set to be filmed in Victoria has been scrapped due to the ongoing writer's strike.

The New Daily

Apple TV+ remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled due to US writers’ strike

The $188m eight-part series was to be filmed in Melbourne but has been shelved because of ‘push costs and uncertainty’

The Guardian - AU

Australia cashing in on a gold rush as Hollywood makes big-budget films in three states

Industry bosses share their excitement of the future of Made-in-Australia film and television productions as country enters a gold-rush era

The New Daily

Last Sherlock Holmes work among 2023 public domain books, movies, music

The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work.

Chicago Sun-Times

2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023

The Independent UK

Jean-Luc Godard death: From Breathless to Contempt, his most famous and important works

“The cinema is truth 24 times per second,” said the iconoclastic film director

Evening Standard

20 best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

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The Guardian - UK

Brave New World by Fred Fordham review – brilliant Huxley reboot

This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics

The Guardian - US

My streaming gem: why you should watch Scarlet Street

The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser-known gems available to stream is a recommendation of a tragic, heartbreaking noir

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