Art, Culture, Literature

Unless you’re a screenwriter, or aspire to be one, you probably wouldn’t know the name Alvin Sargent, but you certainly know his work.

Actress Marsha Mason is force of nature. Here is an incredibly gifted actress who fuels her characters with a believability that is palpable, honest, pure, poignant and intimate. There is something so genuinely unique in the way she takes on ...

Let’s just start by saying this is possibly my favourite Australian film – and that is a mighty big call, because during the 70s and early 80s, Australia really knew how to deliver fantastic genre films. A lot would be ...

Joe R. Lansdale has been doing big things for a lot of years now (he published his first novel, Act of Love, way back in 1981), and yet somehow it seems like he’s doing even bigger things now. The prolific ...

The Magic of Lassie is the first Lassie film in almost three decades, and although it doesn’t have the tender charm and elegance of the original masterpiece Lassie Come Home (1943) or later fare such as The Courage of Lassie ...

When David C. Hayes’ indie black-and-white graphic novel Rottentail was first unleashed on an unsuspecting public back in 2005, no one expected it to attain the immense and lasting popularity it has since enjoyed. But here we are fourteen years ...

Fearless Fagan tells the story of a young lion working steadily at a travelling circus that suddenly has his life turned around when he has to join the army with his master and best friend Floyd Hilstown (Carleton Carpenter). This ...

George A. Romero’s iconic horror film Night of the Living Dead (1968) has to this day had an enormous influence on cinema and it defined the modern zombie film. Its influence, however, goes wider than just cinema – now fifty-one ...

Bare breasts – of the female variety – was considered an almost obligatory part of 1970s Australian cinema, particularly of the independent or exploitation variety. Even if it was just a fleeting glimpse, female nudity was always highlighted in a ...

There are few things as comfortably rewarding as settling into a collection of ghost stories. Esteemed editors-annotators Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger, in their anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense, amplify the rewards through their notations and ...