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Say “Bonjour” To The 2023 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival

08/03/2023

The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival is always an important day on any film fiend’s calendar. The French love cinema, and they make a lot of it—340 feature films in 2021 alone! We get the crossover...

Four Horror Anthology Shows to Watch After Cabinet of Curiosities

Travis Johnson

24/11/2022

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...

Sissy, Carnifex, and the Latest Great Australian Horror Renaissance

Travis Johnson

08/11/2022

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

Travis Johnson

07/11/2022

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...

The Cook, The Rat, Babette And Two Brothers: 8 Mouth-Watering Films About Food

Travis Johnson

06/10/2022

Everyone with two eyes and a stomach is buzzing about The Bear. The acclaimed drama, one of the hottest new shows of the year, sees a brilliant chef (Jeremy Allen White) take over his family’s Chicago san...

A Groundbreaking Profiler Chases Serial Killers In Through The Darkness

Travis Johnson

05/10/2022

We are fascinated with serial murderers, whether they’re fictional fiends or real world pattern killers. We’ll show up for a documentary on Jeffrey Dahmer or a sequel about Hannibal Lecter, a gritty true crime...

First Impressions: House of the Dragon Has Many Of GoT’s Weaknesses But Few Of Its Strengths

Travis Johnson

30/08/2022

The mighty Ian McShane once famously and cheekily dismissed the hugely popular fantasy series Game of Thrones as “…just tits and dragons”, which is a heck of a soundbite coming from a member of the c...

All Aboard For 8 Of The Greatest Train Movies Ever Made

Travis Johnson

18/08/2022

This week sees Brad Pitt trip take a wild ride on a Bullet Train, in which his goofy assassin must fend of a colourful collection of fellow killers while stuck on the titular train between Tokyo and Kyoto...

Retrospective: 10 Years On, Dredd Remains An Essential Take On Britain’s Greatest Comics Character

Travis Johnson

20/07/2022

Judge Dredd, the 1995 big screen debut of Britain’s most celebrated comic strip, doesn’t suck because the titular character, played by Sylvester Stallone, takes his helmet off, but it’s an easy peg to hang cri...

25 Years On, Grosse Pointe Blank Is Still An Indelible Gen X Cult Classic

Travis Johnson

04/07/2022

Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) is in crisis. He’s getting sloppy at work and his friendly rivalry with colleague Grocer (Dan Ackroyd) is getting less friendly by the minute. His therapy sessions with his psychi...

Is Adam Sandler the Nicolas Cage of comedy?

Say “Bonjour” To The 2023 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival

Four Horror Anthology Shows to Watch After Cabinet of Curiosities

Sissy, Carnifex, and the Latest Great Australian Horror Renaissance

For its first annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival delivers an absolute triumph

The Cook, The Rat, Babette And Two Brothers: 8 Mouth-Watering Films About Food

A Groundbreaking Profiler Chases Serial Killers In Through The Darkness

I Lived in a Murder House

What to Watch at ScreenWave 2022

Early Monday Morning, on the Pre-Gym Coffee

New Podcast Downlow.d Looks at Ain’t It Cool News and the Dawn of Internet Criticism

Richard Donner, father of the modern superhero film

The Periodic Table of Awesome – Friday Fast and Furious Fun Times

You may live in Australia, but you’ve never been to Straya

James Wan Talks us Through his Latest Audacious Horror Effort, Malignant

The Power Of Crowe Compels Us As He Tells Flicks About The Pope’s Exorcist

Review: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022)

Director Jennifer Reeder Talks Shudder’s New Anthology Film, V/H/S/94

Yoson An shines as a Complex Character in Historical Drama New Gold Mountain

Creator Peter Cox Explains the Mystery and History of New Gold Mountain

Meet Charlie Agar, The Amiable Apiarist Known as The Bee Whisperer

Review: The Devil All the Time (2020)

Review: John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

Review: Avatar: the Way of Water (2022)

Review: The Wandering Earth 2 (2023)

Review: You Can Go Now (2023)

Review: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)

Say “Bonjour” To The 2023 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival

Four Horror Anthology Shows to Watch After Cabinet of Curiosities

Sissy, Carnifex, and the Latest Great Australian Horror Renaissance

For its first annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival delivers an absolute triumph

The Cook, The Rat, Babette And Two Brothers: 8 Mouth-Watering Films About Food

A Groundbreaking Profiler Chases Serial Killers In Through The Darkness

First Impressions: House of the Dragon Has Many Of GoT’s Weaknesses But Few Of Its Strengths

All Aboard For 8 Of The Greatest Train Movies Ever Made

Retrospective: 10 Years On, Dredd Remains An Essential Take On Britain’s Greatest Comics Character

25 Years On, Grosse Pointe Blank Is Still An Indelible Gen X Cult Classic