Review: Irreverent (2022)
After a peace talk he’s mediated goes bloodily wrong, Mafia fixer Paulo (Colin Donnell) finds himself on the run with a large chunk of illicit cash, a bullet wound in his shoulder, and the potentially terminal...
Four Horror Anthology Shows to Watch After Cabinet of Curiosities
In Netflix’s excellent new series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, the Mexican genre guru presents eight macabre tales of terror from some of the best directors in the horror genre including J...
Review: Poker Face (2022)
Let’s get the poker pun out of the way first. There have been plenty of column inches lately devoted to the story that Russell Crowe went all-in on his second directorial effort, Poker Face. He took over the r...
Seen Lost Bullet? It’s One of the Best Action Movies of the 21st Century
Here’s a simple fact: the most creative filmmaking happening right now is in the low budget action movie space. You may turn up your nose at the sort of movies that used to be direct-to-video staples—violen...
Sissy, Carnifex, and the Latest Great Australian Horror Renaissance
Are we in the middle of an Australian horror revival? It’s a label I hesitate to bandy around; horror never really goes away as a genre, but it does ebb and flow, and right now we seem to be at high tide in th...
For its first annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival delivers an absolute triumph
Since its founding in 2003, the Adelaide Film Festival has run biennially, swapping years with Adelaide Fringe. However, the Fringe Festival went annual in 2007, which made the Film Festival’s biennial schedul...
Review: Werewolf by Night (2022)
It’s a dark and stormy night in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and five of the world’s greatest monster hunters have gathered at Bloodstone Manor at the behest of Verussa Bloodstone (Harriet Sansom Harris) on ...
Review: The Missed by Sami Shah
Full disclosure: I'm friendly with Sami Shah. I first interviewed him for X-Press Magazine back in the day when he was a recent immigrant doing his visa-mandated time in Northam, a tiny Western Australian coun...
Review: Barbarian (2022)
It’s a dark and stormy night, and Tess Marshall (Georgina Campbell) is in rustbelt Detroit for a job interview. She’s booked a house in a nigh-derelict neighborhood through an Airbnb-type service, and the well...
Review: The Stranger (2022)
On a long-haul bus trip speeding through the benighted countryside, ex-con Henry (Sean Harris) makes small talk with a stranger named Paul (Steve Mouzakis). It’s evident they both hail from the criminal milieu...