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‘Tron: Legacy’ is a film desperately calling out for a 4K release. Powerful IMAX visuals that are bound to trigger something from your childhood imagination. It’s as if Joseph Kosinski reached deep within a child’s membrane, like Flynn reaching into Quorra’s and painted a gorgeous hyper-noir backdrop
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Dune (1984) dir. David Lynch - by Mason Horsley ‘Dune’ historically has been a near-impossible venture for any director. Any space opera faces it’s own set of challenges that throw production into turmoil, whether it be ‘John Carter’ or ‘Star Wars’, but ‘Dune’ had been stuck in development hell
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This Road Will Never End: An Elegy to Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho' As I write this, it’s 31 years to the day that River Phoenix died. October 31st, 1993. That makes it 31 years to the day that someone truly important to
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) dir. Ari Aster I believe Social Horror is one of the more underrated, underappreciated horror subgenres. Whereas most horror films focus on a specific figure or community as villains, social horror focuses on reframing the world so that you unexpectedly become the villain. Protagonists can wake
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In 1980, one of the most controversial films of all time hit theatres, chronicling the vulgar reign of the Roman emperor Gaius Caligula. The film was filled with horrific sex, graphic violence and a pretty confronting scene wherein Helen Mirren’s character gives birth in front of the Roman senators.
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I just discovered that when my partner has sex with their robot, they exclusively get it off. I’ve been seeing someone for a few weeks, and things are going well so far – we have a lot in common, enjoy each other’s company, and enjoy having sex with each
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Das Boot (1981) dir. Wolfgang Petersen “They made us all train for this day. ‘To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland.’ Oh God, all just empty words. It’s not the way they said it was, is it? I just
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This week, we were doing a cleanout of the house and my zone was the attic. I’d never actually been in the attic before, and I had no idea what to expect. Armed with a flashlight, I lit up every chasm, picking up scraps of paper and plastic. In
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I’ve set the equipment along my bathroom sink. Firstly, the activator, a green vial to be injected in the arm, secondly, the food packs, one set for me and the other for him, and lastly the switch, for when I just want to sleep for a week. I slowly
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The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton “Ah, little lad, you're staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil?” Charles Laughton’s 1955 expressionistic masterpiece has, since its initial release, defied
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We all want to be wanted, we all want to be desired, to be someone else’s drug. It’d be nice to be sexually revered. We hear differing opinions like “sex is poison” and “sex is power” or “sex is life”. That little endorphin kick as you and your
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Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from the 5th - 15th September. I had the pleasure of attending on opening night and the performance quite literally had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. The stage was lavishly set as a 1950s living