I still can’t figure out if David Arquette is a good actor or not; an assessment I’ve been struggling with since I first watched Scream as an early teen. His supporting role as the socially clumsy, Deputy Dewey Riley, in the slasher remains memorable to this day and one that was savagely lampooned in the …
I remember the anxiety I felt as a child during the many drives home with my parents at night. Often during backroads, we chose for convenience sake, that took us through wooded areas which were only short distances. However, to a young and active imagination, the tree line rushing past my passenger window felt like …
Many classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age haven’t aged partially well in retrospect, and for good reason, but if you can look past the creative choices, specifically casting, often, there are still good movies to enjoy. The Outsider is a modest example of this, which stars Tony Curtis as Native American, Ira Hamilton Hayes, a real-life …
I often suffer from ‘fear of missing out’, yet also like to wait until certain titles leave the public conversation as to avoid boarding the hype train, which is why I’m only now penning my thoughts on the follow-up documentary In Search of Darkness: Part II. CreatorVC was generous enough to send me a screener …
Upon the release of Shock Entertainment’s monthly dealer guide, I eagerly scan the contents for film titles from the 1970s, and fortunately, the month of May brought Pete ‘n’ Tillie, which I had never heard of, but being a Walter Matthau superfan, I was instantly sold. Now available for the first time on DVD, this …
Not since the Universal Monsters has there been a horror-movie shared universe as prominent as The Conjuring series, whereas others are subtle regarding their connective tissue, like the ‘Poho County-verse’ created by problematic director, Victor Salva. After five years and four spin-off features, the long-await reunion with the franchise’s central figures, Ed and Lorraine Warren, …
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I grew up watching Don Knotts in fragments, mostly while wandering through the channels during weekend afternoons. He’s an actor who’s hard to miss; an almost living cartoon and his performance in The Reluctant Astronaut was my introduction to his signature ‘Nervous Man’ character. Last night I sat down to watch The Ghost and Mr. …
Arriving in time for its 40th anniversary, Mommie Dearest, the outrageous and controversial biography-drama has debuted on Blu-ray in Australia under Shock Entertainment’s dedicated sub-label, Cinema Cult. Adapted from Christina Crawford’s autobiography of the same name, this well-known and very quotable classic centres around Hollywood icon, Joan Crawford and her struggles with being a mother …
“I don’t have a hometown, I have an archive…” Phil Burke revisit his place of birth, the non-existent town of Yallourn.
I still remember quite vividly watching the original Wrong Turn in late 2003, while enjoying that aimless gap between finishing high school and getting a job. What I consider a perfect 30/70 blend of Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes, the off-road horror film spawned five sequels, ending in 2014. Now only seven years later …