By Phoebe Hart, Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology
Stan’s new Christmas film Nugget is Dead is a colourful production that follows the rules of the seasonal genre film to a tee – with an Aussie twist and a dash of queer multiculturalism thrown in for good measure.
Most screenwriters refer to the Hallmark Channel as the generic yardstick of Christmas films. The US cable network pumps out dozens of tinsel-tinged offerings each year.
But what exactly are the rules of a Christmas movie? And how does Nugget is Dead fit in with the rest?
A cast stuffed with homegrown talent
Christmas movie screenwriting blogger…
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By Chad Hecht, Research and Operations Meteorologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego
A powerful storm hitting the West Coast combines these weather phenomena for a wet week in many areas. But forecasting exactly which areas will get hit hardest is tough, as a meteorologist explains.
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By Andrew Wiebe, PhD Student, Information, University of Toronto
When it comes to equitable and sustainable infrastructure, we can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both traditional Indigenous oral history as well as NASA researchers.
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By Tina Lowrey, Professeur de marketing, HEC Paris Business School
L.J. Shrum, Professeur de marketing, HEC Paris Business School
Research shows that many factors influence how social media can impact – positively and negatively – the wellbeing of young people. But the media and politicians often draw simpler conclusions.
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By Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, Professeur Associé en Droit, HEC Paris Business School
Certain European technical standards that come from private bodies are a source of EU law, but a recent court ruling points to the need for policymakers to adopt standards via democratic processes.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in Beijing, China. © 2017 AP Photo “Our ideals have become clearer, and our dream is political. The Citizens’ Movement calls on everyone to act like a citizen. When [this movement] becomes stronger, China’s transformation will lead us to a positive future.” That positive future – or the courage to imagine a “beautiful China” – is now hanging by a thread, as the speaker of those words, Dr. Xu Zhiyong, has been on a hunger strike since October 4.Xu, 51, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, has been wrongfully imprisoned…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A pile of shoes during the annual demonstration by NGO Humanity and Inclusion denouncing antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions in Lyon on September 20, 2014. © 2014 Getty Images (Washington, DC, November 20, 2024) – The Biden administration’s decision to transfer internationally banned antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine risks civilian lives and rejects the most successful humanitarian disarmament treaty of the past 25 years, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 19, 2024, the Washington Post reported that US President Joe Biden had authorized…
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The future of childhood ‘hangs in the balance’ as three major global forces reshape children’s lives, according to UN Children’s Fund UNICEF’s flagship report released on World Children’s Day.
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By Lisa Vanhala, Professor of Political Science, UCL
“An ambitious new climate finance goal” should be the priority of every nation at the latest round of international climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. That’s according to Simon Stiell, who heads the United Nations process for negotiating an agreement to limit global heating.
Discussions are deadlocked at the start of the second week. The objective is to raise money to drive a global shift towards clean energy and ensure that…
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By Daniele Sorini, Post Doctoral Research Associate in Cosmology, Durham University
Humans may still appear even if the universe were very different. In fact, we may not live in the most likely of possible universes.
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