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We say goodbye to formidable comedic legend Catherine O'Hara.

A genius of improv and physical comedy, her bold choices made us laugh until we cried in a career that spanned over five decades.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

'Scared for our children': Stronger response urged on alleged rally attack First Nations leaders have urged governments to take stronger action in response to the alleged attack at an Invasion Day rally in Perth on Monday. Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss says failing to do so "sends a message that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do not matter".

First Nations leaders have urged governments to take stronger action in response to the alleged attack at an Invasion Day rally in Perth on Monday. Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss says failing to do so "sends a message that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do not matter".

Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news

Saw 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple in a cinema today. It's phenomenal. Don't miss experiencing that on a big screen.

NOCK LOOSE is getting its third print run! To celebrate, we are putting it out as an Expanded Edition, which includes these sick as realisations of the Sukeban Yumi manga (from the novel) by my li'l cousin, Ned Beeson.

thanks to everyone who bought NOCK LOOSE! Buy the expanded edition, it rips!

We Bury the Dead: Q&A with Director Zac Hilditch at Luna Outdoor | Luna Palace Cinemas Filmed in the haunting landscapes of Albany and the Great Southern region of Western Australia, We Bury the Dead sees Tasmania turned into a corpse-strewn wasteland after a US military experiment gone...

If you're in Boorloo-Perth on 11 Feb, come along and watch We Bury the Dead at Luna Outdoor with a Q&A with director Zak Hilditch. I'll be asking the questions, he'll be providing the answers. Joy! And zombies!

www.lunapalace.com.au/events/we-bu...

The Plot Against Harry (1989) I love a movie where an operator makes the rounds. Our protagonist moves around their world, connecting with other characters and settings, each a mini-world of their own. Each stop along their cir…

VHS Tracking reviews THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY (1989).

A Hero Never Dies (1998) Wine being poured into a glass while blood drops onto a table; the bartender doing the pouring, having been smashed in the face by demanding triad bosses ordering him around. One lingering image from the very stylish A Hero Never Dies (1998), which uses a bottle of wine as a symbolic bond between two criminal rivals, lieutenants from opposing triad gangs.

A Hero Never Dies (1998)

Wine being poured into a glass while blood drops onto a table; the bartender doing the pouring, having been smashed in the face by demanding triad bosses ordering him around. One lingering image from the very stylish A Hero Never Dies (1998), which uses a bottle of wine as…

Wow.
SA Premier Malinauskas, triples down on interfering with the Adelaide Writers Festival which then self imploded and was cancelled.
Can you imagine linking an award-winning author who opposed genocide to two hateful, murderous men?
Racism game is strong. 👇🏼

I'm happy to be listed among extremely fine company as one of the Books of the Year in Sight & Sound. Thanks to @www.johnbleasdale.com for the kind words.

Dead Heat (1988) My favourite accounts on instagram, TV Hed Pde and VCR Of Death, have been independently shown one clip from Dead Heat (1988), the excessive scene where Treat Williams with half of his face looking like a zombie and a security guard fire submachine guns into each other’s torso for what feels like five minutes, standing there shaking as multiple blood packs keep exploding upon each of them.

Dead Heat (1988)

A screenshot of the list of top ten films for 2025. 1 - Weapons 2 - Nickel Boys 3 - Die My Love 4 - It Was Just an Accident 5 - Bird 6 - One Battle After Another 7 - Hard Truths 8 - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 9 - Sinners 10 - Sing Sing

Throwing out my top ten films for 2025 - Australian release dates. No Aussie films on this list.

Endgame (1983) Directed by Joe D’mato, Endgame (1983) is another Italian rip-off post-apocalypse movie and much like Lucio Fulci’s Warriors of the Year 2072, it’s about televised death sports, preempting The Running Man movie, though more than likely copying Rollerball. While not as stylish or gory as Fulci’s film, I enjoyed Endgame more. It spends 30 minutes in the world of ‘Endgame’, where three hunters chase a target through abandoned factories, a pursuit beamed to the masses that are left alive in a post-nuclear war existence.

Endgame (1983)

Pencils by Neal Adams, final painting by Richard Corben, for a phantastic philm that I loved at first sight & still love today.

Introducing Reality Sequence A newsletter about narrative, creativity and our fracturing reality

have rebooted an old newsletter - will be writing about writing while trying to understand what on earth is going on (in general)

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Reflection In A Dead Diamond (2025) What I appreciate about Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Let The Corpses Tan, The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears) as filmmakers is that they are fetishists. Drawing upon memories of genre cinema - a gesture, a moment, a flourish - and not simply re-creating them, but deconstructing and exploding them. With Reflection in a Dead Diamond…

Reflection In A Dead Diamond (2025)

What I appreciate about Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Let The Corpses Tan, The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears) as filmmakers is that they are fetishists. Drawing upon memories of genre cinema - a gesture, a moment, a flourish - and not simply re-creating…

Diamonds are Forever: Reflecting on Reflection in a Dead Diamond with Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are French writers and directors based in Belgium. They have made four films together: Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, Let the Corpses Tan, and now the v...

I spoke with the extraordinary directing duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani about their dizzying eurospy homage REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND.

Films like these are why cinema exists. On Shudder now.
www.thecurb.com.au/reflection-i...

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa in SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (1991)

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa gave us a gold standard villain in SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO (1991) and he devours every scene he’s in.

Wake Up Dead Man and Sentimental Value (Movie Squad Podcast #516) - RTRFM

New Movie Squad podcast. Reviews of WAKE UP DEAD MAN and SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Listen through the RTRFM website or your favourite podcasting app!

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Dude is wearing three shirts, a coat and scarves, and a bow tie

Watching Chow Yun-Fat’s masterclass in layering, CITY ON FIRE

The Hot Spot (1990) Look, I always knew about The Hot Spot (1990) because of an adolescent crush on Jennifer Connelly. A neo-noir directed by Dennis Hopper was also an alluring proposition, Don Johnson in the lead as an opportunistic drifter in a small Texan town, caught between two archetypical babes, the girl next door (Connelly) and the southern belle vamp (Virginia Madsen). Hopper was originally supposed to be making a film from a Mike Figgis script, but ditched that to settle upon an older screenplay adaptation he found of a 1953 novel by Charles William, …

The Hot Spot (1990)

Look, I always knew about The Hot Spot (1990) because of an adolescent crush on Jennifer Connelly. A neo-noir directed by Dennis Hopper was also an alluring proposition, Don Johnson in the lead as an opportunistic drifter in a small Texan town, caught between two archetypical…

VHS Tracking Presents…
BASSENDREAM (2022)
Wednesday 3rd December
Doors open: 6:30pm
Intro/Q & A with cinematographer Oliver Hay: 7:10pm
Film: 7:40pm
Goolugatup Heathcote gallery

Free screening. Register here!

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Hollywood 90028 (1973) I only watched Jaques Demy’s Model Shop when Quentin Tarantino programmed it as part of a retrospective that was shown on SBS, as it was a clear influence on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as a ‘Driving around LA’ movie. In Once Upon A Time, it’s about a cool guy driving around L.A. while the spectre of murderers and serial killers lingers on the fringes in the form of the Manson Family.

Hollywood 90028 (1973)

sometimes I wonder what people might be talking about on Threads, but I guess there's really no way to know

SEE YOU IN DECEMBER AUSTRALIA! Tell ur frends and come see our final DREM shows.

📸 by @justoffthesix.bsky.social

RIP Udo Kier, star of JOHNNY MNEMONIC (1995) and BARB WIRE (1996).

Hello. It's Thursday evening. About a week ago we launched our newsletter. It's been really nice to publish and share things with people. However, there's currently only 15 subscribers which is a bit sad when over 10k people have visited the site. Sign up won't you?

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Announcing the first three titles to join the Imprint Asia collection from the Golden Princess Film Library! 🌟

These exclusive SteelBook releases are each in a Limited Edition Hardbox.

• CITY ON FIRE
• PEKING OPERA BLUES
• A CHINESE GHOST STORY TRILOGY

Pre-orders open Friday 21 November.

The Big Combo (1955) There are images in The Big Combo (1955) that are everything you want from a classic Film Noir. Opening with a woman stepping down a darkly lit corridor, backstage to a boxing match, pursued by suited figures. Later, a man in a suit wearing a hat emerges from the fog outside, stepping into a hangar to catch up with his nemesis.

The Big Combo (1955)