Not including the 2006 remake, 20th Century Fox laid The Omen series to rest in 1991 with the made-for-television feature, Omen IV: The Awakening, and in the year that followed, Whoopie Goldberg re-energized Catholicism with the musical comedy, Sister Act. Over the subsequent decades, studios have merged, nuns are now scary, and a franchise is […]
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Melbourne’s Dockland Studios opened in 2004, as a bold artistic representation of the city’s growing ambition to be on the world stage and to claw back some lucrative media position from rival locations. Ghost Rider (2005) was the first major American film shot at the new location and quickly became the highest-grossing film made in
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Satan is on the prowl in theatres with The First Omen followed by Late Night with the Devil opening next month, and currently, screening is the new psychological horror, Immaculate – released on March 21st across Australia through Rialto Distribution. Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) travels to Italy on invitation to join a convent located in
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I’m not the most enlightened individual when it comes to music. My tastes still linger around a couple of songs I was exposed to as a child; namely Love Shack and Electric Blue. When it comes to music today, I can say with confidence that I’m aware it exists. Available to rent and buy from
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During September, I resigned myself to the sad reality of not being able to see Bottoms in theatres, but by a stroke of good fortune, my small-town multiplex, gave the LGBT comedy a brief run with semi-convenient session times for its November 30th Australian release. In a violent scheme to bed some babes before graduation,
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We’re over a century removed from the ‘silent era’ but 90s action kingpin, John Woo, has brought it back in a small dose with his first American film in 20 years, aptly named, Silent Night – which opens in cinemas across Australia from Dec 7th from Rialto Distribution. After losing his voice and child during
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I was 19 going 20 when Bad Santa hit DVD, several months after a bootleg copy made the rounds among my extended family back in the days of tangible film piracy. Twenty years later, I still stubbornly watch that same DVD with “interactive menus”, despite HD streams at my fingertips, and with each viewing my
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Five years between sequels is a while these days, especially for horror movies, but I have a sneaking suspicion that COIVD kept The Nun II banished from production, which opened in theatres earlier this month, following up on the 2018 original. Naturally, the demonic force, Valak, who masquerades as a nun, has returned to unleash
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Christopher Griffiths and Gary Smart wax nostalgic for the movies that made us like no other duo of filmmakers. While celebrational, their retrospective approach isn’t just through the lens of rose-coloured glasses. Instead, it’s often objective, not shying away from controversies or general negativities associated with the making of certain classics, and their latest effort,
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I feel that I slipped into an alternate reality for a brief period because I could have sworn the titular ship was named “Dementer”, not Demeter, but I stand corrected. Dementer does sound better though, just for the record. The Last Voyage of the Demeter, now showing in cinemas across Australia, is the latest film
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