In some ways it felt like a cruel joke, one that prodded at our inner child. Even as the lights dimmed for the usual serving of trailers and commercials, the enormous tunnel slide situated on our right remained a glaring sight. Despite being locked tight, awaiting the next Vjunior session, all eight patrons tried to […]
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Films about the monotonous routine of domestic life are far from rare in mainstream cinema, particular those centred around maternal figures and the thankless tasks that fill their busy days. Departing from the usual superficial take, Jason Reitman’s new comedy-drama Tully delves much deeper, following a mother of three young children who hires a night
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Setting aside Rob Zombie’s ‘hell-billy’ sequel from 2009, we now have an official new follow-up to John Carpenter’s Halloween, titled Halloween, which continues Laurie Strode’s traumatic existent 40 years later. However, if you’re not one for the controversial retcon approach, then I highly recommend the seamless Halloween II, extending ‘the night he came home’ for
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Hammer and vampires go together like peas and carrots, boasting a wide selection of films centering on the infamous creatures of the night, more often than not starring Christopher Lee as blood-sucker No. 1, Count Dracula. Out now from Cinema Cult for the first time on Blu-ray in Australia, Kiss of the Vampire represents a
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I introduced myself to Michael Myers in the mid-nineties when I was allowed to rent John Carpenter’s original Halloween on VHS. Due to the brightness and colour being all but depleted on my parent’s remote-less TV, my first viewing involved a great deal of squinting, especially during Michael’s escape from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Forty year
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Usually when we think of Hammer Horror, images of Christophe Lee as Dracula or Peter Cushing as Doctor Frankenstein spring to mind; characters who were originally popularised on screen during 1930s by Universal. If you’ve ever wondered where it all began for the iconic film stable, Hammer’s first significant experiment in horror came from an
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Fifth film and fourth sequel in the Invisible Man series, The Invisible Man’s Revenge accompanies Gill-man sequel Revenge of the Creature from September’s vengeance-fuelled titles on Blu-ray under Shock Entertainment’s dedicated label Cinema Cult. All but completely removed from the 1933 original, fugitive Robert Griffin is aided by an eccentric scientist who makes him invisible
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With its premier set for Saturday, October 20th at this year’s SciFi Film Festival in Sydney, My Saga is an Australian documentary feature from debut filmmaker and Star Wars fan Adam Harris; who journeys with his son, Jack Anakin Harris, to the United States for Star Wars Celebration 2015, in one inspired effort to bring
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I sit down to write this review just hours after the first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s The Mule dropped online, which may very well be his last on screen performance, sixty-three after his cinematic debut in Revenge of the Creature as lowly lab assistant. Out now on Blu-ray from Shock Entertainment, under dedicated label Cinema
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Derived from the Native American word “cheppiaquidne”, meaning “separated island”, Chappaquiddick is a common word in the vocabulary of American politics, one synonymous with scandal. On the night of July 18th, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy was involved in a fatal car accident on Chappaquiddick island, Massachusetts, which claimed the life of 28-year-old campaign strategist, Mary
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