Zootopia earned nearly 5.8 million at the Australian box office last week, but Wicked: For Good was not far behind.
Saw Five Nights At Freddyâs 2 (speaking as a fan of the franchise), good movie, plenty of easter eggs for fans and plot expands on the first movie. Picks up and leaves the door open for the trilogyâs third installment.
Solid 7.5/10 IMO. Worth a watch.
Aussie movie The Deb, Rebel Wilsonâs directorial debut, will finally be released locally on January 15, 2026, after its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival last year.
In Australia, Fire and Ash topped the box office with more than $11.1 million.
It technically bombed in the US though, with the opening 3-day tally at $88 million being well short of $110-125 million range expected by analysts.
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) may not have been a fantastic flick nor Eddie Murphyâs greatest work, however IMO it is far from the worst heâs ever produced looking back now and actually think the great late Wes Craven did a solid job steering this film, it was a slightly different genre for Murphy to explore, after several safer mainstream hits. Also the final project in his long-running contract with Paramount Pictures that went back to â48 Hrsâ in the early 80s, Murphy and his team also produced and wrote it.
Spadeâs subtle dig was pretty funny though, I think Eddie was being a bit precious TBH.
So, the other day I dusted off an old DVD, 1995âs Scorsese epic Casino (2002 DVD release from Universal Pictures Video Australasia). Not his best work, but still a damn good film and some excellent direction, set and costume design, cinematography and acting by the three leads De Niro, Stone (arguably her best performance) and Pesci.
And to my shock, itâs a 4:3 transfer, but the film is in a very anamorphic 2.39:1 aspect.
So on my 16:9 flatscreen, this is what I had to put up with (and no it wasnât available on a streamer I am currently subscribed to nor was I going to rent it for like $5). It was passable and I got used to it, but how frustrating and at a time when 99% of DVDs were widescreen/16:9 transfers, it was perplexing.
(sorry about my art skills 
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I believe the 10th Anniversary re-master in late 2005 a few years later corrected this. It was also restored for BluRay in 2008, re-released for the 20th Anniversary in 2015 and just last year was given a limited steelbook 4K UHD scan for its 30th Anniversary.
This mustâve looked horrible when it was initially aired on TV, wouldâve been in pan and scan for sure, like the early VHS.
DVD print in question:
Lol. Iâm pretty sure I can set my tv to the aspect. Iâm not even sure why it has it.
If I changed the aspect, it distorts the image, makes it stretched and everybody fat and squished. Unwatchable. And if I zoomed/magnified, it crops the image too much and makes the resolution very poor, in an already ordinary quality.
I have a memory of NZ TV splitting it in two parts (on consecutive nights) which used to be relatively common for really long movies (once you added ads).
I havenât seen it in years but might be due a rewatch if I can find it streaming.
Anyone watched The Housemaid since it was released?
The trailer lookâs great! Just havenât read any of the books.
Love Amanda Seyfried, not a fan of Sydney Sweeney though.
Canât believe this hasnât been mentionedâŚwell I can to some extentâŚbut there is a Pauline Hanson movie coming out of Australia Day.
Whoâs stupid idea was A Super Progressive Movie?
Canât even do the movie poster right⌠- read the credits
In case you havenât noticedâŚ
You know your career has turned to crap when youâre hosting quiz nights in Newcastle.
Thought the first two acts were really weak but the ending was strong. Seyfried is easily the strongest part of the movie, but Sweeney is the main focus. Worth a watch, even when itâs really bad itâs fun enough.