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Academy Award nominee Luca Guadagnino ( Call Me by Your Name ) directs an unsettling and original take on the 1977 cult horror classic Suspiria . A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director (Tilda Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Dakota Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up. To celebrate the release of Suspiria , we're giving away 10 in-season double passes. How do I win a pass you ask? Well thank you for asking so politely, just head over to our Facebook page and follow the entry details. Couldn't be any easier. Suspiria hits cinemas November 8th. - Stu

November releases have torpedoed my top 10! Thanks to the directorial debuts from Greta Gerwig ( Lady Bird ) and John Carrol Lynch ( Lucky ), my top 10 needs some serious rearranging. Other notable watches this month include Blade of the Immortal from Takashi Miike, Downsizing from Alexander Payne and Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express . As we inch closer and closer to the end of the year, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching my list evolve over the past 11 months. Can’t wait for the December releases, apparently there’s some Star Wars movie coming … To check out my top 10 month by month, feel free to check out my other lists from earlier in the year. As always, I’d love to hear about your favourite movies in the comments below or come over and play at our Facebook page . January February March April May June July August September October - Stu Top 10 as of the end of November: 1. Lady Bird 2. Land of Mine 3. Call Me By Your Name 4. Good Time 5. Get ...

Episode 49! Stu and Billy are back at the flicks having attended the the second week of the Sydney Film Festival , and also managing to watch Transformers: The Last Knight . Transformers: The Last Knight is the 5th installement of the live-action Transformers film series. The films sees Humans are at war with the Transformers, and Optimus Prime nowhere to be found after the events of the previous film. The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Now, it's up to the unlikely alliance of Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), Bumblebee, an English lord (Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford professor (Laura Haddock) to save the world. Also in this weeks episode we also recap the films we've seen from the second and final week of the Sydney Film Festival. These include: Mifune: The Last Samurai, Graduation, Barbecue, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, On Body and Soul, Kedi, A Fantastic Woman, Call Me By...

It's that time of year. Where Sydney cinephiles maddeningly scratch their heads trying to fit as many movies into a day as possible, and go slightly mad trying. That's right, it's Sydney Film Festival time! The Festival runs from the 7th till the 18th of June and the full list of movies can be found here:  http://www.sff.org.au/ To help you out Billy and Stu have put a list together of the 20 films they are keen to see over the festival. 1. The Beguiled by Sofia Coppola Set during the American Civil War, the film follows a young girl who decides to take an injured soldier into her house after finding him. Once in the house, the dynamic of the house and it's all female residents changes as sexual rivalry and jealousy interjects.The film stars Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, and Colin Farrell. 2. 78/52 by Alexandre O. Philippe An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the ...