An ode to perhaps the greatest gross-out set-piece ever committed to film.
Alongside her future partner, Clark Gable, this 1932 romantic comedy established Lombard as a bona fide movie star.
By Adam Scovell
Howard Hawks’ 1940 film remains one of Hollywood’s finest and most radical comedies.
By Lara C Cory
This musical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth helped to popularise the Brazilian sound.
The late icon’s playful dress sense brought a breath of fresh air to the films of the French New Wave.
By Beth Piket
Her affecting turn as woman in turmoil Joanna earned her the first of many Oscar wins.
By Sam Moore
Alan Rickman’s iconic Die Hard baddie is a faux-revolutionary motivated purely by financial gain.
By Anna Cale
Sixty years on, Val Guest’s delightfully murky musical satire retains a defiantly British sensibility.
By Adam Scovell
For all of its seething male energy, it’s the film’s young female lead who emerges as its star performer.
In 1979, the first Australian film directed by a woman since the silent era signalled a new dawn for female authorship.
The radical ethics of Hayao Miyazaki’s fearless heroine still resonates today.
From unqualified disaster to visionary epic, critical opinion on Michael Cimino’s 1980 western has shifted over the years.
By Paul Ridd
The low-rent British gangster series has a lot more to offer than brainless, brutal violence.
By Nicole Davis
Paul Mazursky’s 1978 divorce drama contains one of cinema’s most authentic portrayals of womanhood.
By Emily Gett
From Senator Padmé to Jacqueline Kennedy, the actor has always relished playing complex, self-empowered characters.
By Amanda Keats
Linda Hamilton’s return in Dark Fate reminds us why her complex heroine is so vital to the series.
By Jake Cole
Released in 1999, Bringing Out the Dead is a clear response to the perceived ambiguity of Taxi Driver.
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