Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword Of Vengeance (1972)

It’s hard not to be nostalgic for things like Saturday Cult Movie nights on SBS with Des Magnan with the type of movies I’d get exposed to on free to air TV growing up as a teenager. The Lone Wolf And Cub series tended to get played a lot, and I think I’ve only seen […]

Event Horizon (1997)

When I was a teenager, I loved going to midnight movie marathons at Greater Union. Some of these would be impeccably themed (teen movie fests like Cruel Intentions + Urban Legend + Disturbing Behaviour) and others were a bit random, like the one where I first saw Event Horizon (1997) which was sandwiched between Tomorrow […]

Revolver (2005)

I like Guy Ritchie movies the most when they get pretentious. Like, I’m more keen to rewatch something like Wrath Of Man rather than The Gentlemen. And the zenith (so far) of Ritchie’s pretensions has to be Revolver (2005), his return to the gangster genre after the unsuccessful remake of Swept Away. I’ve always been […]

The Lure (2015)

In 1980s Poland, two mermaids hear their own siren song: a fair haired boy playing an indie ballad on the shoreline. Leaving the water for the world of humans, the mermaids eventually front their very own synth pop band. Welcome to the horror-musical-fantasy world of The Lure (2015; Córki dancingu), which revolves around a nightclub […]

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

It’s all a matter of time. You hear about a film, you see it pop up (particularly if it’s in the public domain – so everywhere, public access TV, crappy DVDs, free on YouTube), and know that at some point you’ll eventually see it. The Hitch-Hiker (1953) was always beckoning on the side of the […]