Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) was the Australian New Wave film that most rigorously confronted the cataclysmic effect of British and Irish colonisation on the country’s Aboriginal people. …

There’s never been a screen Scot as intimidating as Brian Cox’s Logan Roy, the ruthless media baron and patriarch in HBO’s Succession. Imagine Trainspotting ‘s Begbie coming up against Logan and you know that that atavistically violent Scottish “hard man” would quail in his presence. How can Logan’s ambitious kids…

Interrogating Al Pacino’s two Salomé films, finally released decades after the actor first staged the Oscar Wilde play. — Salomé (2014) is Pacino’s adaptation of Wilde’s play, which wasn’t publicly performed in England until 1931 — 37 years after it was first published in English. …

The makers of Babylon Berlin threw two stunning musical curveballs in Episode 10. — Something weird and wonderful happens at the start of Episode 10 of Babylon Berlin. …

The painting that reignited the debate on censorship in art. — Manchester Art Gallery’s temporary removal of John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs stoked an uproar about censorship and political correctness. Waterhouse’s 1896 painting, an acknowledged late Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece, depicts the handsome young Argonaut Hylas encircled by seven naked naiads, or water nymphs, in a very English pool. …