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October 2020 Horrorfest: This Time, It’s Redundant!

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All the horror I watched this October, minus the entire series of Ash Vs Evil Dead (which was bloody marvellous)…

  • Control
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Feel the Motion
  • Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
  • David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

Favourite First-Time Watches of 2020

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The year was awful in most ways, but it did give me a chance to watch a lot of stuff…

  • Lady, Stay Dead
  • The Back of Beyond
  • In the Wake of the Bounty
  • Greenhide
  • Blue Fin

31 Days of Australian Film (January 2021)

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I’ve taken this January as an opportunity to immerse myself in Australian cinema. With the odd exception, these are all…

  • Speed Kills
  • The Professor and the Man
  • Bad Meat
  • Supernova
  • The Smell of Success

The Post-Smithee Orphanarium

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Since “Alan Smithee” was retired as the official pseudonym of the Director’s Guild of America, it’s been harder to keep…

  • Is This Just a Story?
  • Maid Servant
  • Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • Handsworth Songs
  • Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

MIFF 2021

73 films Edit list
  • All-Star Weekend
  • And They're Off
  • Aztec Warrior
  • Black Water Transit
  • Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen

Stuck on a Shelf/Locked in a Vault/Buried in a Landfill

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Movies that have never gotten proper distribution to date. Some are tied up in legal and financial limbo, while others…

  • GetEven
  • The Astrologer
  • The Room
  • Miami Connection
  • Massacre Mafia Style

The Vanityville Horror

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A collection of self-created star vehicles from people who would otherwise have no business being in front of, or behind…

  • Something Evil
  • Initiation
  • The City of the Dead
  • The Godsend
  • The Spider Will Kill You

Lockdown Shockdown 2021

33 films Edit list

The annual October horror binge. I’m attempting to get through a buttload of unwatched titles in my movie collection, but…

  • Woodstock
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • The Salt Mines
  • Disco Dancer
  • Quadrophenia
  • Fever
  • Funny Things Happen Down Under
  • Two Hands
  • The Dark Room
  • Lousy Little Sixpence

31 Days of Australian Film 2022

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Another January of homegrown cinema. Old and new, feature-length and shorts. Cornerstone classics to YouTube-dwelling obscurities.

  • The 13th Floor
  • Afraid to Dance
  • Against the Grain: More Meat Than Wheat
  • Annie's Coming Out
  • Around the World in Eighty Ways

The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry by David Stratton

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Every film listed in David Stratton’s 1991 book about the 1980s Australian moviemaking boom under the controversial 10BA tax concession.…

  • 10 on Ten
  • 12 Angry Men
  • 13 West Street
  • 1941
  • 1969

The Great Unwatched

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The ever growing, very occasionally shrinking pile of movies I own, but haven’t watched.