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Blair Witch turns 25
Adam Daniel | July 16, 2024This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, a film that popularised the found-footage horror sub-genre, captivated a generation of horror fans and inspired a hundred copy-cats.
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In praise of Donald Sutherland
Daryl Sparkes | June 23, 2024Donald Sutherland never pigeonholed himself as a certain defined type of actor. He could play goofy, dramatic, scary, intense, subtle, tough or gentle and excelled at them all.
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Reality Bites at 30
Adam Daniel | May 4, 2024Here’s something to make you feel old, the Generation X classic Reality Bites has turned thirty years old. The good news is that the film stands up and is as much fun as ever.
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Deciphering the monolith
Ari Mattes | April 11, 2024Monolith, a low-budget, high concept science fiction film from first time Australian director Matt Vesely and writer Lucy Campbell, is a triumph of quiet, intelligent film making.
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You’ll never find me
Erin Harrington | March 20, 2024The new Australian psychological horror film You’ll Never Find Me is an unsettling and economical chamber piece that makes effective use of its limited location and dialogue-heavy script.
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It happened one night – 90 years ago
Alexander Sergeant | March 16, 2024Frank Capra’s cynical romantic fable, It Happened One Night, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year and is well due a critical revisit.
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Do look now
Gregory Frame | October 7, 2023Adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s supernatural short story and directed by Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now is a moving and tender portrait of marriage and parental grief, as well as a haunting – and occasionally terrifying – horror film.
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A haunting in Venice
Stuart Richards | September 16, 2023A new cinematic adaption of Agatha Christie’s late novel “A Hallowe’en Party” leans heavily into the gothic with a hint of supernatural terror amping up the murder mystery.
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The invisible hit
Ben McCann | December 16, 2022James Cameron’s Avatar was a blockbuster in its day – with people literally queuing around the block to see it – but left little cultural wake, so will its sequel match the hype of its publicity campaign?
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5 films to catch at the Sydney Film Festival
Ari Mattes | November 17, 2021Cinemas are reopening after the long COVID lockdown and, if Hollywood blockbusters aren’t your cup of tea, there’s a feast of more substantial international fare to enjoy at the Sydney Film Festival.
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Whatever happened to Christmas films?
Lisa Needham | December 25, 2019Every festive season for years, we’ve been served Christmas schmaltz at the movies, but that’s now changing. And while we’re on the subject, why is Die Hard a Christmas film?