A topic of increasing debate is the use of artificial intelligence to digitally create or recreate human portrayals in film and media. Several films have even used A.I. to generate performances for actors who have died, which raises ethical issues regarding consent of using the likeness of human beings. This
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As the new movie Wicked is premiering over Thanksgiving weekend, it is bringing back attention to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is an American musical fantasy film that was an adaptation of the 1900 children’s fantasy novel. The story is about an imaginative teen
Pornography was legalized in Denmark on July 1st, 1969. One of the first countries to allow the film genre to proliferate legally. A triumph in the world of nymphomaniacs and sexual deviants everywhere (well, at least in Denmark). It was time to celebrate this “sex”-cellent news. Jens Jørgen Thorsen had
Two films, both alike in dignity, one releasing exactly one week after the other, of the same length, down to the minute, each costing upwards of 100 million dollars to produce, failed to turn a profit after a flood of scathing reviews on their respective opening weekend. The consistency and
Recently, the biopic film Amy, sharing the life story of the late singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse, came out and caught the attention of many critics. Viewers’ main critique was that the actress looked nothing like Amy Winehouse. Biopic films take a real and widely adored individual and dramatasizes their life for
Indigenous representation in the media has long been debated, with many arguing the key distinction between authentic and stereotypical representation. One recent example arose when the television show Yellowstone debuted in 2017. It came to the attention of many Indigenous actors that Monica, a Native character, was not being portrayed
The 2011 film, This is Not a Film, is a documentary created by and centered around Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi, as he goes about day-to-day life under house arrest and censorship forced on him by the Iranian government. Throughout the film, Panahi is shown attempting to appeal his sentencing of
Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most infamous of all serial killers in American history. What made Dahmer’s murders more repulsive, was not the murders themselves, however the gruesome aftermath that took place. On record, Dahmer murdered a total of seventeen young men, who were of predominantly minority groups, black
Picture this. You’re watching a new movie about a twisted killer, hunting down his victims one by one, brutually torturing, and eventually murdering them. This isn’t uncommon. Our society has become obsessed with dark and violent media such as crime shows, thrillers, and horror movies. Your eyes stay glued to
It is normal and common for viewers to love antiheroes on screen – that is the intention of the directors, after all. Antiheroes developed as a result of the traditional portrayal of heroes becoming too mundane and boring for modern films. The introduction of antiheroes put a twist on regular