Guy Pearce once said in an interview with Craig Ferguson that Adelaide supposedly closed all the mental asylums and let all patients go free, implying the capital of South Australia is literally insane. While I don’t agree with the former Neighbours heartthrob, a new-age slasher with an edge of madness has sprung forth from the […]
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If you were a teenage moviegoer in the early 2000s you’ll no doubt remember Monica Bellucci trying to make out with everyone in the Matrix sequels, as the A.I. programmed, Persephone, who was conveniently trying to experience human emotion. Prior to her appearance in the science-fiction mediocrity, the Italian star starred in the erotic drama
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It’s the dead of winter, but Imprint Films have chosen to warm our hearts and minds with the slice-of-life drama My Summer of Love; released last week on Blu-ray at the end of Pride Month. Spine number 229 for those keeping count. Yearning to escape her working classic life, Mona (Natalie Press), finds a kindred
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I can’t remember the last time I saw a new release on opening day (maybe Zoolander), but due to circumstances beyond our control, my partner and I were seated at 10am to see Indian Jones and Dial of Destiny, feeling a little trepidatious being the school holiday, but as it turned out, it was almost
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I ruined several VHS tapes and my parent’s VCR through constant rewinds of various titles, namely, The ‘Burbs, Waterworld and Stargate. Thankfully, home video is far less mechanical these days. Now, light years from that Channel 7 recording I cherished so much during the mid-90s, Via Vision has released the Ultimate Edition of Roland Emmerich’s
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Twenty years before Spike Lee gave us his unique and colourful take on racial politics in Do the Right Thing, the social drama, Uptight, paved the way for how the plight of minorities can be represented through provocative cinema. Available now on Blu-ray for the first time in over ten years, Imprint Films in Australia
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Fossil fuels are the result of pressure and time. One example is brown coal, of which there is an abundant supply for literally centuries beneath the Latrobe Valley: it’s dredged up, burnt and in turn, creates pressure, resulting in the generation of electricity. In early 2014 during an intense summer, embers from a nearby grass
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Eureka Entertainment treated us to the Hong Kong classic, Mr Vampire in 2020, introducing a whole new generation of home viewers to ‘Hopping Vampires’ or Jiangshi to use the official term (as opposed to the more limber bloodsuckers from the West). Upon a quick Google search on the subject, you’ll learn there are countless titles,
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Most horror fans will agree, especially those of the ‘Elm Street’ variety, that listening to Robert Englund talk is strange cinematic comfort food. Now, after a fifty-year career on the big screen, the man they call ‘Freddy’ looks back on his accomplishments in the Screambox original documentary, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.
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Universal rarely miss an opportunity to exploit their ‘Classics Monsters’ but after the failed ‘Dark Universe’ the studio sought different ideas, enter the new release horror/comedy, Renfield; servant, familiar, sidekick and long-time companion to Count Dracula. After a century of loyalty, Robert Montague Renfield, played by Nicolas Hoult, grapples with the toxic relationship under Dracula’s narcissistic
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