Author: James Curnow
The Laws of Gravity: How the awesome wonder of the universe was weighed down by mismatched spiritualism
Let me start off by acknowledging that aesthetically, Gravity is one of the most radical entertainment experiences that popular cinema has seen in recent years. There can be no denying the significant technical feats achieved by the director, Alfonso Cuaron, the genius cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki, and no doubt numerous other crew members unfairly relegated to…
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Halloween Horrors: 13 Zombie Classics
Tomorrow marks the dawn of Halloween, a celebration that I was never entirely privy to as an Australian child. Each year its arrival was made apparent, not by the marching of costumed children through the streets, but by the sudden avalanche of American Halloween television specials that poured through the small screen into our living…
Ozploitation: A love letter in images
Why use words, when images can do all the talking. A brief love letter to Ozploitation – the low-budget Australian exploitation films made after the country’s introduction of an R rating in 1971.
The Dance of Reality: Jodorowsky returns and remembers
I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs. The difference being that when one creates a psychedelic film, he need not create a film that shows the visions of a person who has taken a pill; rather, he needs to manufacture the pill. – Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo: The Book of the Film Alejandro…