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In Christianity women are relegated mostly to three positions: virgin, servant, or penitent whore. Anything regarding sexuality or sensuality is transgressive. Saints become martyrs to the desires of…
David Fincher’s darkly comic hitman film The Killer can almost be read as an apologia for everyone who had to suffer through other people not understanding Fight Club was a satire and not a guidebook…
Self-mythologisation is not unusual in the arts, especially in the world of pop and rock music. David Bowie was a man of many personas who was interested in Andy Warhol, and artist who spoke about him…
This review contains slight spoilers. There’s a fair bit to admire about Luke Sparke’s work as a director. His debut monster flick Red Billabong (oddly re-released in the US as The Devil Beneath in 2…
Kitty Green is one of Australia’s finest filmmakers. From her incredible documentary examining personal bias and ascribing guilt Casting JonBenet, through to her impactful film dealing with entertainm…
While the settings of Yorgos Lanthimos’s films have varied wildly, from a hotel for singles in a seemingly dystopian society in The Lobster, to the upper-class home of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, or…
Joe Lynch directing a script by the legendary Dennis Paoli (Re-Animator and From Beyond) conjures up his own eldritch psychosexual horror by gender swapping and modernising H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Thing…
At the end of Martin Scorsese’s epic western a radio show producer presents a live play about William ‘King’ Hale’s Reign of Terror over the Native American people in Osage county, Oklahoma announces…
Directors and writers Adam Mann and Skye Mann weave an atmospheric Irish folk horror in the cautionary tale A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree. Relying on ancient folklore and Celtic fairy tales, the fil…
Citizen Kitano screens at the Japanese Film Festival during October 2023. A Post-Film Talk Event with Professor Sean Redmond (Deakin University) will be held on 28 October 2023 at The Kino in Melbourn…
Demonic possession has definitely become the horror trend du jour over the past year. Alongside surprise hit Talk to Me are sequels and reboots such as Evil Dead Rise, Insidious: The Red Door, The Nun…
If one surveyed most audiences and asked them to point to the premier purveyor of scathing Scandi social satire, they would immediately choose Sweden’s Ruben Östlund. Östlund’s semi-sincere work does…