What to Watch at ScreenWave 2022
ScreenWave International Film Festival is back for 2022! Scenic Coffs Harbour plays host to one of the best regional film festivals (actually, that "regional" qualifier seems redundant) from Thursday, 21st Apr...
Early Monday Morning, on the Pre-Gym Coffee
I wanted to get up early and get to the gym due to a couple of slack weeks. I've had a niggling sore throat for a while now. Not Covid, but enough to make me stay close to home and pull out of a few screenings...
New Podcast Downlow.d Looks at Ain’t It Cool News and the Dawn of Internet Criticism
Look, I've got this blog section here that I do almost nothing with, because my daily life is feed the cat, watch something, write about it, go to the gym, watch something else, wrestle with existential angst,...
Richard Donner, father of the modern superhero film
I woke this morning to the news that director Richard Donner had passed. He was 91, which is a pretty good run by anyone's standards, and he hadn't directed a film in 15 years, his last being 2006's 16 Blo...
The Periodic Table of Awesome – Friday Fast and Furious Fun Times
I wind up doing all kinds of ancillary nonsense from time to time, and sometimes there's a video footprint of said nonsense. Such was the case the other week when the good folks at The Periodic Table of Awesom...
I Lived in a Murder House
One of the things we take for granted since the rise of social media is the ability to simply stay in touch with people. The good old World Wide Web is ubiquitous now, and anyone even remotely tech-savvy – and...
You may live in Australia, but you’ve never been to Straya
Hey gang, Trav here. At the moment I'm helping my old amigo Anthony O'Connor pimp his debut novel, Straya, 'round the traps. It's a fantastic read: a kind of comedic, hyper-violent, really fun post-apocalyptic...
VHS Tracking #13 is Out!
VHS Tracking is a fun little 'zine published pretty irregularly by my amigo, critic and film academic Tristan Fidler. It's pretty simple, as 'zines should be: T-Fid picks a theme, reaches out to some interesti...
Cyberpunk Cinema: An Online Panel (Updated!)
Some of Australia's best speculative filmmakers get together to, well, speculate on cyberpunk screen culture.
Dentistry, Deadlines, and the Ol’ Post-Festival Malaise
Hey folks, just giving you a quick heads up as to the current state of play. I got back from the excellent Adelaide Film Festival on Monday morning (8am flight, man - fuck that) quite hung over (to be expe...