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Hollywood is often thought of as the vanguard of progressive America, a hotspot of liberal values and cultural reformism forever tapped into the zeitgeist.

If Australian television has left you disappointed this year and never really set your heart ablaze, there are still a few chances for you to change your mind.

The Face of Love is the second film this year to explore the idea of doppelgangers by casting the same actor in two different roles.

As Netflix was staking out a place for itself as a content producer in 2013, it had several high profile original series, including the return season of cult comedy hit Arrested Development and the Kevin Spacey-led political thriller House of Cards.

There’s nine hours of Eurovision on Australian screens this weekend.

When September comes around in the United States and February arrives in Australia, TV fans are stuck with a dilemma: how can one person possibly watch all the television they want to? How can you take chances on all the promising new shows while keeping up with your old favourites? Being a couch potato can be awfully hard work in the Golden Age of Television.

Director John Curran’s Tracks is a road trip film with a twist: there is no road, there is no car, and the journey revolves around one person.

Yesterday the world’s most impressive array of frocked up celebrities congregated, as they do every year, to distribute prizes around a glorious looking room and watch show reels celebrating the work of themselves and their peers.

When the Eiffel Tower falls to the ground, when the Great Wall of China crumbles to dust, the Pyramids dissolve into sand and the Statue of Liberty is washed away, one human achievement will stand undiminished by the passage of time.

Slavery will always be a hot button issue for the American film industry, and there is something endlessly horrifying about watching depictions of it.

Have you seen director David O’Russell’s acclaimed comedy American Hustle? What a rib-tickler! Loosely based on America’s Abscam scandal, which brought about the conviction of a United States senator and six members of Congress in 1980, this side-splitting con artist caper stars Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper.

Go-getter DS Stella Gibson, played by The X-Files star Gillian Anderson, leaves stunned audiences in her wake as she has casual affairs with office colleagues, while on the hunt for a ruthless killer in the BBC UK’s cult hit thriller The Fall.