Westerns being aired on network television on a Sunday afternoon were the epitome of boring when I was a child. However, my limited general knowledge of film was enough for me to know the difference between John Wayne and Gary Cooper, unlike the uncultured 80s supervillain Hans Gruber in Die Hard. High Noon has arrived […]
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When I was a child, around 10 or 11, I remember asking my mother if my Aunty Corral “would be a skeleton by now”, who had died unexpectedly the year before. It was a question that stemmed mainly from having watched The Goonies, as I was fascinated with the famed pirate, One-Eyed Willy. Unfortunately, at
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As many animated classics have been subject to questionable live-action remakes, it’s refreshing to get an original and traditional 2D animated feature on the big screen. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie opens in theatres across Australia and New Zealand from March 27th through Pinnacle Films. Daffy Duck and Porky Pig,
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New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft made his feature film debut in 2021 with the bleak road thriller Coming Home in the Dark, which depicted senseless acts of violence at the hands of an extremely disturbed individual. This same confronting theme carries over into the director’s new feature, The Rule of Jenny Pen, a distressing psychological horror taking place
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Western audiences mostly know Rutger Hauer as an action star who was most prominent during the 80s and 90s. However, before making a name for himself in Hollywood, he was regarded as a thespian performer in his native Holland. In the new documentary feature, Like Tears in Rain, directed by his goddaughter Sanna Fabery de
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After a while monsters tend to get boring, namely vampires and zombies, but the haunted house movie, more often than not, manages to hit close to home (no pun intended). It’s a genre that operates subconsciously, questioning our understanding of what may or may not lie beyond death. Steven Soderbergh offers more questions than answers
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While enjoying the solitude of nature, Margie, an inquisitive young woman, has an encounter with something disturbingly familiar. Through her subsequent pursuit she finds herself venturing off the beaten track to the very edge of reality. Shot in the luscious green bushland of West Gippsland, Victoria and written in 2020/2021 as a “Lockdown Script” –
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Sarah Appleton & Phillip Escott, a collaborative duo and horror aficionados, have followed up on their 2021 documentary, The Found Footage Phenomenon with a new feature Generation Terror – screening at this year’s Monster Fest in Australia. Examining horror films from the late 90s to the mid-2000s, this 100-minute feature presents an array of filmmakers and journalists
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Russell Crowe is back in theatres for the second time in a little over a month, but instead of fighting evil, he’s fighting to remember in the new crime/thriller, Sleeping Dogs – out now in cinemas through Rialto Distribution Australia. Retired and suffering from acute memory loss, ex-homicide detective, Roy Freeman, is asked by a
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When I was a kid the neighbours behind us had three teenage sons, all of whom had bucked teeth. My father, who never missed the opportunity to single out one’s physical characteristics, nicknamed those three lads, “The Bucky Beavers”. I hadn’t thought about that for a long time, not until an email arrived about an
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