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Isaiah Saxon said in an interview several years ago conducted from Trout Gulch the Santa Fe forest artist’s commune and studio for Encyclopedia Pictura that his north star heroes in filmmaking are Miy…
Dungeons & Dragons, or D&D, has long been a name that people have perhaps heard, but not truly known. Whether experienced in passing, or partaking, the now Hasbro owned fantasy tabletop role-p…
You may have never picked up a twenty-sided die in your life, or you may be a dab hand at the most popular role-playing tabletop game, well, ever. Either way there is something for the novice and the…
Stranger (Storonniy) is playing as part of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, from Sept 9 to Sept 26 2021. Details here. Stranger (Storonniy) opens with a quote from The Outsider, a creepily poign…
Day three and it is Polish dramedy Never Gonna Snow Again and Christian Petzold’s Undine, two films that aim for magical realism but don’t quite hit the mark. Never Gonna Snow Again The trope of th…
Life sucks. Everything I write might as well start like that from now until… whenever this current state of the world ends. I spent my last week of social opportunity having a good final cinema day fo…
A few years on from their gleefully gross zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, sibling directing team Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner bring us their second feature, Nekrotronic(also known as Nekrom…
When looking out at the television landscape in 2019, it’s difficult to avoid a streamer or network without a flagship fantasy series currently being aired, or deep in development. Amazon is prepari…
Directed by Joachim Rønning, Maleficent: Mistress of Evilstars Angelina Jolie, returning as the titular dark fairy, dealing with her goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) becoming engaged to Prince Philip…
I am generally an optimist. I try to find around a way around the negatives by focusing on the positives, but, as most of you would probably know, that is not always possible. Having said that, the fi…
As Meat Loaf once sang, two out three aint bad. Except, maybe, when that third film in your oeuvre happens to be Warcraft. Duncan Jones had a good run, having made the notable sci-fi films Moon and So…