Author: James Curnow
Melbourne International Film Festival – Starts tonight!
The Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off tonight with the red carpet Australian premiere of Pedro Almodovar’s new film I’m So Excited. This year I was lucky enough to be offered a place on the festival’s short film selection panel, so I’ve managed to squeeze my way in for the big night. I’ll be reporting…
Ozploitation: Twelve Australian exploitation classics
Some might argue that it is paradoxical – perhaps even hypocritical – to follow a post lamenting the generally poor quality of horror cinema with one celebrating the schlocky oeuvre of Australia’s exploitation cinema during the 70s and 80s. I would suggest that an observation of this kind may well be absolutely correct, but such…
Great Horrors: Ten horror classics you might have missed
The horror genre promises more than any other in respect to emotive impact, and for this reason it is probably the genre in which failure is most common (along with comedy, perhaps). Horror films are very rarely actually scary, and worse than this, they are usually appallingly made. In fact, horror is one of the…
Shorts reviews: ‘Bridges’, ‘Afterglow’ and ‘Step 9’
I get a lot of requests to review short films and in the past I’ve rarely been able to get to many of them. However, having spent the last five months as a short film selection panellist for the Melbourne International Film Festival (I finished up a couple of weeks ago), I feel a renewed…
New CURNBLOG Facebook page!
Hi All, This is just a quick note to let you know that CURNBLOG has just launched a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CURNblog If you’re on Facebook I’d love it if you could drop by and Like the new page – and maybe make a comment or two as well. It would be great to see this…