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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I can’t remember the last time I saw a new release on opening day (maybe Zoolander), but due to circumstances beyond our control, my partner and I were seated at 10am to see Indian Jones and Dial of Destiny, feeling a little trepidatious being the school holiday, but as it turned out, it was almost
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Fossil fuels are the result of pressure and time. One example is brown coal, of which there is an abundant supply for literally centuries beneath the Latrobe Valley: it’s dredged up, burnt and in turn, creates pressure, resulting in the generation of electricity. In early 2014 during an intense summer, embers from a nearby grass
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Most horror fans will agree, especially those of the ‘Elm Street’ variety, that listening to Robert Englund talk is strange cinematic comfort food. Now, after a fifty-year career on the big screen, the man they call ‘Freddy’ looks back on his accomplishments in the Screambox original documentary, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.
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Universal rarely miss an opportunity to exploit their ‘Classics Monsters’ but after the failed ‘Dark Universe’ the studio sought different ideas, enter the new release horror/comedy, Renfield; servant, familiar, sidekick and long-time companion to Count Dracula. After a century of loyalty, Robert Montague Renfield, played by Nicolas Hoult, grapples with the toxic relationship under Dracula’s narcissistic
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