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One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a bunch of characters, hopefully you like them, sometimes you don't.…
There’s something about Ürei that gets under your skin without constantly reminding you that you’re watching a horror movie. Its horror comes quietly, slowly building the feeling that something is dee…
In praise of Waheeda Rehman, an actress who carved her own path through atypical choices to become a beloved screen icon of Indian cinema.…
Welcome to the fifth instalment of the Noughts Report. Each entry revisits a year in film from the 2000s, highlighting movies big and small and the careers and genres and trends that ignited or flamed…
There's something in the water in Adelaide that's forcing a major change within the Australian film industry. The Adelaide Film Festival exists and has continued their great financial support…
So much of the discussion about cinema viewing this year has been about what cameras Christopher Nolan shot The Odyssey on. As someone who engages in film discussion as part of running this website, i…
The Squirrel is one of those movies that completely won me over in ways I wasn’t expecting. Going in, all I really knew was that there was a squirrel, it wasn’t a horror movie, and I was probably goin…
There’s something about a good Halloween movie that doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent the genre. Sometimes all I want is witches, creepy houses, kids running for their lives, a little blood, and en…
“When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body” Marshall McLuhan I suspect that if he’d lived to see it, McLuhan might’ve expanded that sentiment to include ‘online’. Online, we are tr…
With striking imagery, a functional-enough story, and an award worthy performance from Uber the dog, it might just be David Ayer’s most inoffensive and emotionally arresting film.…
Madison Dell'Aquila is, as her website proudly states, "constantly looking forward to challenging what people say can't be done." That mindset is strongly applied with the new platfo…
Koberidze creates a conversation with all of the shifting moments of reality that exist for the individual and then become irrevocably “something else” when they form symbolic vestiges.…