In 2003, Canberra was hit by a horrific firestorm. The fire destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory, as well as its historic Yale-Columbia Refractor telescope. The telescope had been observing the stars since the 1920s and even helped with a few…
This “Hospital” was never a medical institution. It rather uses the older definition of the term, which refers to a type of almshouse. Lord Leycester Hospital is a group of medieval timber-framed buildings on High Street in the historic city…
★★ Stars Directed by: #VitorBrandt Written by: #VitorBrandt, #DenisNielsen Starring: #EdmilsonFilho, #MatheusNachtergaele, #LetíciaLima, #LeandroRamos, #VictorAlen Film Review by: Alicia Moore “Two hapless cops find themselves in over their heads as they cross paths with dangerous criminals while searching for Celestina,…
“One way or another, I’m gettin’ home to my dog.” Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for an acclaimed time loop short titled Two Distant Strangers, which is arriving streaming on Netflix in April. It’s already nominated for Best Live…
Check the Gate is a column where we go one-on-one with directors in an effort to uncover the reasoning behind their creative decisions. Why that subject? Why that shot? In this edition, we chat with Adam Wingard and discuss how…
My perpetual fear of the dark stopped me watching horror films until my late teens. At age 17 or 18, I decided that being able to enter into conversations with friends about Paranormal Activity outweighed not being able to sleep…
Dirk Bogarde’s career was a contradiction. In the 1950s he regularly topped the movie charts as one of Britain’s most popular stars, but privately he admitted that beneath the glamour of it all he was deeply unsatisfied. At first, he…
Western culture looked radically different seven years ago, but it still gave us a preview at what was heading our way. Woke warriors willing to take down anyone for any reason. Cancel Culture remained years away, but special interest groups…
★★★ Directed by: #RyanWadeStott Written by: #RyanWadeStott Starring: #ChristienBartGittens, #JodiHutton, #SophieWhitebrook, #CarlBeech Film Review by: Julian Gaskell This short begins at a business motivational conference (The 5 Steps to Success) with the organiser (Jodi Hutton) preparing to introduce the next…
Martin Scorsese’s “Cape Fear” is a remake of a good movie, the 1962 Robert Mitchum/Gregory Peck thriller of the same name, and it’s better than the original. The 1991 film begins with a roaring Bernard Herrmann score (faithfully recreated by…