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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Many of us assumed the 2019 remake of Child’s Play would be a fresh start for the long-running franchise which began over 30 years ago, and while the story was adapted well for this overly digitised age, it’s now all but forgotten. Much like Jackie Earl Hayley as Freddy Krueger, fans were unwilling to embrace
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After a six-month hiatus from my local cinema, fear of missing out and wanting to see something not associated with the ‘Awards Season’ brought me to Cocaine Bear; an outdoorsy black comedy about an equally black bear that unintentionally ingests some Columbian nose candy. As a result, a subsequent bloody rampage ensures. Set in 1985
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Arcade machines have become a background fixture in nostalgia-based film and television, a timestamp of the 80s and 90s, but now, along with their humble custodians, they’re the focus of a new documentary, Still Standing; which charts the history of arcade and pinball in Australia – from its height in popularity to preservation and resurgence
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Much like the members of Derry’s own ‘Losers Club’, I had my first counter with Pennywise the Dancing Clown at around 12. I remember a classmate telling me about a movie in which a clown is seen gnawing on a child’s torn-off arm, beneath the street, down in a dark and murky sewer. No scene
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I’m constantly suckered in by 80s horror with its enticing over-embellished artwork and so the saying goes; fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, …or as George W. Bush once said, “A fooled man can’t get fooled again”. While I am an exception to that rule, I do try to
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I had no ambition to continue my education after high school, which in retrospect may have been a poor decision, but we naturally continue to learn as life takes us forward, for better or worse. If it’s any consolation, I’ve attended my fair share of college lectures, vicariously through numerous motion pictures, like The Paper
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