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 […]
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I first came to learn heard of Prophecy while reading an article about the passing of actress Victoria Racimo, late last year, who many of us film fans know as Nurse St. Cloud in Ernest Goes to Camp. Coincidentally, both movies have a prominent Native American element, but unlike the aforementioned screw-ball comedy, Prophecy explores a
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I’ve been asked many times when Imprint Films plan to dip their toes into horror, due to the company releasing many big studio classics. You could argue they’ve been playing it safe, but I detect some clever strategy with the many worldwide debuts and now on their 13th month since launch, August has been dedicated
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I don’t look back on my high school experience very often, but watching Malcolm for Year 8 English remains a fond memory of lessons in character study and storytelling. Now over twenty years later I sit down once again to pen my thoughts and some observations on this charming classic from director Nadia Tass and
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You could almost mistake the title as a parody, but Hell Night isn’t taking the piss, and while it may sound like a cookie-cutter horror on paper, this cult classic has an endearing quality. Available now on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, 101 Films have added the hazing slasher to their popular
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If you’ve never seen Breaker Morant, you’re likely familiar with the film’s defiant last words shouted by Edward Woodward as the stoic lead. Now you can discover or re-visit the film that’s topped more lists about Australian cinema than any other, thanks to Umbrella Entertainment who added the classic to their Sunburnt Screens sub-label earlier
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Amazingly, Pay-TV still operates in Australia, even though they’re all but redundant, but during its glory days in the late 90s, the previously absorbed, Austar, was my gateway to classic television. Alfred Hitchcock Presents was one of many shows that piqued the interest of my young curious mind, but I quickly found myself in The
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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
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Anime titles are in no short supply here in Australia but are mostly distributed by a single label. However, the very genre-oriented, Umbrella Entertainment has a couple in their catalogues, such as Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers and the director’s final film, Paprika, which recently landed on shelves. We enter a reality where therapists have the
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I haven’t seen enough silent films to fairly cite a favourite actor from the period, but I’m going to say Conrad Veidt, even if it’s technically by default. Mostly known for his performances in influential The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Man Who Laughs, Veidt could personify madness like no other, and between these two
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