AUTOPSY: 2019

Here it is, my final best-of list for the decade. The top ten for the year, and eight excellent runners-up.

THE BEST:
10. The Golden Glove
9. Lords of Chaos
8. Doctor Sleep
7. Ad Astra
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
5. Midsommar
4. The Lighthouse
3. Color out of Space
2. In Fabric
1. The Nightingale

THE REST:
Arctic
Come to Daddy
High Life
The Irishman
Parasite
The Perfection
Terminator: Dark Fate
Velvet Buzzsaw

BEST TV:
Chernobyl

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT:
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FOR 2020:
Dune

IN FABRIC

Gorgeous track, from a film like no other... 

SFF 2018

As has become a tradition around these parts, here are the seven films that will be entering my eyeballs and ear holes at this year's Sydney Film Fest! Not a bad selection at this year's fest. Most excited for UPGRADE and GHOST STORIES.

Sphinx Pinastri

While on the hunt for material for the Cronenberg post below this one, I stumbled on these striking unused posters for Peter Strickland's wonderful THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY. They are the work of Parisian graphic designer Vincent Petitjean, whose other film related designs you can see here.

As a bonus, feast your eyes on some behind the scenes shots, thanks to the perpetually enlightening and insightful Kino Images blog.

AUTOPSY: 2015

This was an unusually strong year for genre movies, filled with moments of thrilling originality, deep emotion and awe-inspiring visuals and ideas. It really was one for the books, comparable to one of those benchmark years from the early '80s that people from my generation look back on so reverently. 2015 gave us a deluge of fantastic indies and a surprising amount of top-notch blockbusters.

I narrowed this down to my top 20 (listed alphabetically) but suffice it to say that my top 5 in descending order are: Mad Max: Fury Road; The Duke of Burgundy; Bone Tomahawk; Sicario; and a tie for 5th between Ex Machina and The Nightmare. The Martian was very narrowly edged out of my top 5.

The list of movies that I haven't gotten around to that could have ended up here is just as long: Macbeth; Anguish; Love; Tales of Halloween; #Horror; Alleluia; Tangerine; Midnight Swim; The Hallow; Yakuza Apocalypse and many more.

I'm off to picturesque Kangaroo Island for a much needed break now. Cheers and all the best to my readers and I'll see you on the other side!

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THE REST:

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BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT:

PREDICTIONS FOR BEST OF 2016: