Last year’s standout Aussie film, Talk To Me seems to have broken ground for Aussie horror films internationally. Appearing to benefit from this is supernatural horror/comedy Late Night With the Devil which has apparently been a sensation in the US after generating a serious buzz at the South-By-South West Film Festival. The film takes what had become a slightly tired
Read moreAmy Winehouse was sadly one of those mercurial music talents taken from the world much too young; in fact, at the ill-fated age of 27. Her 2007 album Back To Black, which combined classic soulful torch songs and swaggering upbeat jazzy numbers was one of the decade’s finest. The 2000’s arguably represented a second ‘Cool Britannia’ in music with the
Read moreThe recent Hollywood Godzilla and King Kong films have been enormous, lumbering, jokey, CGI onslaughts that have offered some impressive spectacle and monster porn but (smatterings of techno jargon aside) seem to have mostly been aimed at 12-year-olds. Despite a distinct lack of cinematic nutrition, they’ve been successful enough to spawn multiple sequels and now we have the latest effort,
Read moreThe Gen X nostalgia train rolls on with latest resurrection of an 80’s favourite, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The original Ghostbusters from 1984 was a fun mix of sci fi, supernatural spookiness and zany comedy. The film worked in part because of the concept and director Ivan Reitman’s deft orchestration of its various elements but mostly because of the cast: Bill
Read moreBritish director Jonathon Glazer likes to unsettle his audience from the get-go. The beginning of his latest film The Zone of Interest, involves five minutes of blank screen with ominous atmospheric music and ambient noise. Eventually we see a lush, verdant riverbank with people lounging in the sun as if in some vision of Eden. It soon becomes clear this
Read moreIn 2021, Denis Villeneuve’s first instalment in his cinematic version of Frank Herbert’s iconic 1965 science fiction novel Dune saw young, floppy-haired Duke, Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) battle the invading armies of the nefarious Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard) before becoming a desert dwelling, giant sand worm-loving freedom fighter. It was essentially a sci fi Lawrence of Arabia. While technically impressive
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