In the past few years, Australian cinema has been on a grand rise, with big movies like Mad Max: Fury Road of last year and Hacksaw Ridge this year smashing international screens and winning multiple awards throughout festivals. Despite the international spotlight of many of the films, there are many smaller and independent films that […]
Month: January 2017
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10 Great True Crime Movies You Might Not Have Seen
Real life crimes have inspired some truly incredible films – Badlands, Bonnie and Clyde, Zodiac – but a number of respectable titles in this genre have slipped under the radar. Here are 10 overlooked True Crime pictures that set themselves apart: 1. Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985) A pivotal scene in Tobe Hooper’s […]
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10 Movies That Prove Religion Has Been A Recurring Theme in The Films of Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is amongst the most famous and well-known of American film directors, creating works of both popular appeal and critical acclaim for five decades. But what separates Scorsese from other directors, in addition to his proficiency, is the way that his work almost always engages with larger questions and ideas, particularly those that can […]
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10 Movies That Will Disappoint in 2017
2017 will give us a lot more of the same. You’ll have your sequels and your reboots at every corner. But which ones are the real deal and what others are waiting to fail the fanboys and dishearten the cinephiles? For now, the best ways of trying to figure that out are by looking at […]
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The 10 Best European Films of 2016
Many people complained about the lack of good films in 2016. While that may be partially true, when all’s said and done, this past year gave us some very interesting films for our viewing pleasure. The American big budget arena was mostly dominated by comic book adaptations, some of them good, and some not so […]
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10 Lost Films That Were Probably Masterpieces
Film was once a fragile medium. Nitrate film stock, the industry standard during the early days of cinema history, was highly combustable and subject to decomposition. Before the advent of boutique home video retailers, film preservation was relegated to mostly prestige pictures. For decades, hidden classics wasted away in metal cans – all but forgotten. […]