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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Fritz lang - The Untold Story

95 Years Ago, One Crime Thriller Masterpiece Launched The Serial Killer Genre

Fritz Lang's 'M' is rightfully remembered for its innovations as a procedural thriller, and even today, its influence looms large.

Inverse

New Scrubs, Muppets and Lord of the Flies: what’s new to streaming in Australia in February

Plus Jurassic World Rebirth, Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run, and a sharply observed dramedy about open marriages

The Guardian - AU

New year, old warnings: what can films set in 2026 teach us?

From Doom and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to Metropolis, Hollywood hasn’t predicted the most stable of years ahead

The Guardian - US

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40 Collector’s Items So Rare, They’re Practically Priceless

Want to know which rare item is worth over $450 million today?

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TV tonight: the extraordinary story of the baroness and the Covid scandal

The downfall of the lingerie entrepreneur accused of making millions from taxpayers for PPE. Plus: David Frost takes on Moshe Dayan. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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…

The Conversation

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.

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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

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

The Guardian - UK

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’

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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

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

The Independent UK

2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023

Evening Standard

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

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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

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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