As the second month of 2018 comes to an end, you may be surprised to know that Alex Proyas’ Dark City turned twenty years old, one of several films I was exposed to as a teenager and aspiring film buff by Foxtel’s annoyingly repetitive schedule. Like many films that’ve gone on to achieve widespread acclaim, […]
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Expanding their catalogue of World Classics, premium Australian label Umbrella Entertainment have added the rather sophisticated French mystery The Champagne Murders (Le scandale) from genre master Claude Chabrol. Following a trio of social high-flyers, the business partner of a champagne tycoon is being framed for a number of grisly murders, at a loss as to
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Without a doubt, this past Valentine’s Day was certainly one for the books. After a tedious drive to an area of Melbourne which felt equivalent to the “outer rim” in Star Wars, my girlfriend and I found ourselves in inside Westfield Southland’s semi-luxurious and intimate Europa Cinema to catch one of the final showings of
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Anyone who’s seen the documentary Not Quite Hollywood would recall Quentin Tarantino speaking with much enthusiasm about the audacity of tying a half-naked woman to the hood of a truck, an image which has become a fixture of Ozploitation cinema. Now for the first time on Blu-ray, Umbrella Entertainment have unleashed the Australian classic Fair Game
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Three years ago, when Netflix officially arrived in Australia, the underwhelming amount of content in comparison to the paradise of choice enjoyed elsewhere barely justified the monthly subscription fee. Now I feel the streaming service earns its keep every time I log in, with new titles appearing almost daily. One of the latest acquisitions is
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Having lived in a rural area since birth, the fabric of small-town life and community is something I’ve come to observe more closely over the years. Comprising more than just simple pleasures and modest living, there’s an inadequacy and attitude of complacency rife in my corner of the world that’s become hard to ignore. These
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Throughout their respective careers, director Sydney Pollack and screen icon Robert Redford collaborated on six distinctive films between 1966 and 1990, spanning cinema’s most loved genres. Without a doubt, their most gripping venture is the highly secretive and deadly thriller Three Days of the Condor, which has just found its way on DVD shelves via
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Melbourne-based filmmaker Luci Schroder serves up an unflinchingly raw slice of reality in the form of Slapper, a short feature which follows destitute teen Taylah, who is desperately in need of some quick cash for the morning-after pill, following a brief and unceremonious sexual encounter. Shot unstylishly in my hometown of Morwell, situated in the
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For a moment it felt like there was a force preventing me from seeing All the Money in the World, but thankfully the stars aligned yesterday afternoon for a viewing that was definitely worth the wait. Inspired by true events, when 16-year-old John Paul Getty III is kidnapped in Italy, the boy’s mother desperately tries
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Umbrella Entertainment has hit the ground running in 2018 with their Blu-ray release of Silver Bullet, which has had the online horror community abuzz since its announcement last October. Based on Stephen King’s 1983 novella Cycle of the Werewolf, the famed author also penned the screenplay for this obscure mid-eighties classic in which a small
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