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To celebrate the Australian release of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, the spooky new horror from producer Guillermo del Toro and starring Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes, Cut Print Review and Hopscotch Films are giving ten lucky readers the chance to win an in-season double pass see the film when it opens across Australia on November 3rd!

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Paranormal Activity 3 is shocking alright, but that has less to do with what’s in the movie, and more to do with what’s been left out. See that publicity picture located above this review? Sadly, you won’t see that scene play out in the movie. Oh, and have you seen this trailer promoting the film? Well guess what, you won’t be seeing those scenes in Paranormal Activity 3 [...]

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To celebrate the release of TT3D Closer to the Edge, the breathtaking doco about the most dangerous motorcycle race in the world, Cut Print Review and Icon Films are giving you the chance to win an in-season double pass see the film plus an Icon DVD 5-pack (incl. Go Fast, In Bruges, Transporter 3, [...]

If you squint really hard during Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing, you might notice that it’s actually prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic and not a remake. But just barely. The two films are plotted so similarly that if van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing played out a few days later and a few clicks south, it’d be Carpenter’s The Thing. Only, you know, not nearly as good.

I realise [...]

Australian director Daniel Nettheim has helmed his fair share of TV episodes in the form of Rush and All Saints, but it’s been over a decade since he’s made a feature film. He returns to the big screen with The Hunter, a mystery drama about a US mercenary (Willem Dafoe) who is sent to the Tasmanian wilderness to track down the supposedly extinct Tassie Tiger.  Adapted from the novel [...]

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To celebrate the October 13 release of The Thing, the horror prelude to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, Universal Pictures and Cut Print Review are giving away ten double passes to see the new movie.

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Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty.  It is also home to an isolated outpost where [...]

As you’re probably aware, critics are invited to see films at preview screenings for free, not because we’re a privileged bunch, but because we’d have to forgo eating for a week if we were to pay to see movies like those of you with incomes and shoes and other fancy things. Usually, these 90-minute stints spent inside a roofed establishment are the highlights of my week, second only to finding [...]

Quirky is the new cool. Introverted is the new extroverted. Freeze frames are the new flashbacks. And if that montage doesn’t come with a wry voiceover or a dry folk-rock track, you might as well forget about it.

These are a few of the unwritten laws of the coming-of-age indie: films that are so concerned with being different, they’re at risk of becoming the same. Sometimes, the quirkiness comes across naturally [...]