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 moreCivil War is the latest grim cinematic offering from British writer/ director Alex Garland who first came to our attention with the grueling zombie thriller 28 Days Later, chilled us with AI drama Ex Machina and weirded us out completely with the freaky psychological horror of Men. At times evoking Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, Civil War is a confronting,
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
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