DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Two more Umbrella contributor copies! Love the woolly slipcase! Special thank you to Dave and Lou Elsey. #BlackSheep #Cypher #Bluray #4K #physicalmediaforever #UmbrellaEntertainment 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Thrilled to have contributed an essay to Umbrella’s stunning new release of Quest For Fire! Thanks for welcoming me into the tribe @jacksargeant.bsky.social 🔥 #Umbrella #QuestforFire #JeanJaquesAnnaud #bluray #PhysicalMediaForever 020
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 17/08/2025For anyone who had me chatting about David Lynch’s Wild at Heart on YouTube on their bucket list! You’re in luck! Thanks for having me on the show Matthew Pejkovic.m.youtube.comWhat Makes Wild at Heart a TIMELESS CLASSIC After 30 Years?YouTube video by Matt's Movie Reviews 050
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Pick up the latest issue of The Big Issue Australia to read my review of Ari Aster’s Eddington. Game on! #TheBigIssue #review #physicalmediaforever #Eddington #AriAster #joaquinphoenix 000
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 30/07/2025My second producing job for Umbrella Entertainment! Carl Reiner’s body swap comedy All Of Me. Huge thank you to Cynthia Wang, @nadinewhitney.bsky.social, the Wives Colangelo, Douglas Slocombe, Neil Emery, Victoria Tennant & Phil Alden Robinson for helping to make this such a special release. 040
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I’ve been writing about the second season of Twisted Metal over at @flicks.bsky.social! Streaming soon on Stan.flicks.com.auTwisted Metal’s new season takes road rage to the limitThe second season of demented PlayStation adaptation burns rubber. And clowns! 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the newsagents! Pick up the latest issue of The Big Issue Australia to read my review of the new concert film Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamonds in the Desert. #TheBigIssue #review #physicalmediaforever #hanszimmer 071
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Thrilled to announce I am contributing an essay on Tangerine Dream’s iconic score for Imprint Film’s stunning new 4K release of Michael Mann’s The Keep. 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Very excited to have contributed to Umbrella Entertainment’s 4K deluxe edition of Vincenzo Natali's Cypher. #Cypher #Bluray #4K #VincenzoNatali #LucyLiu #physicalmediaforever #UmbrellaEntertainment #SpecialEdition 000
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Catching up with some contributor copies. It’s always a thrill to see your name in print and I loved contributing to these two publications for the team at We Belong Dead. 000
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 08/05/2025We Belong Dead’s Japanese double issue has just won a Special Recognition at the Rondo Awards. Honoured to have been part of the team, I wrote about the careers of Takashi Miike & Kinji Fukasaku. Thanks, as always, to Eric McNaughton and Darrell Buxton, and congrats to all of my fellow contributors. 000
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I sunk my teeth into Sinners over at Flicks #SinnersMovieflicks.com.auThe bloody twists and fluidity of Ryan Coogler’s genre mash SinnersAn audacious, ultra-violent, foot-tapping, high-kicking historical horror with two teeth in its neck and a twist in its tail. 000
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 24/04/2025My interview with Richard Roxburgh about Kriv Stenders' The Correspondent in The Big Issue Australia. 000
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Pick up the latest issue of The Big Issue Australia to read my interview with Marc Almond on the eve of Soft Cell’s first ever Australian tour. Buy the mag and make a difference. #TheBigIssue #Interview #MarcAlmond #SoftCell #physicalmediaforever #Magazine 011
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 20/03/2025So honoured to have contributed to this epic collection of Michael Haneke films from Umbrella Entertainment. I wrote an essay on the director’s muses Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Susanne Lothar plus I recorded two video essays for the set. 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Farewell to a legend! The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman: The Movie, Bonnie and Clyde, Unforgiven and so many more. RIP Gene Hackman 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Such a thrill to work with @cynthiawangmedia.bsky.social, Jacqueline Page, Mara Reinstein and the team on this beautifully designed bookazine. I wrote about Audrey Hepburn’s impressive cinematic back catalogue and her legacy and influence as a style icon in the movies. 030
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. An exhaustive examination of a Hollywood classic that still provokes consternation whenever it is screened, I wrote about the film's legacy and position in popular culture and explore the locations that inspired the studio bound production. 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 14/02/2025By Grabthar's hammer, this was a fun magazine to work on. Thrilled to share pages with @cynthiawangmedia.bsky.social and Mara Reinstein and love the designs by Herman Vega. I contributed to a chapter on the characters from the film and deep dived into sci-fi classics that influenced the filmmakers. 020
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Pick up the latest issue of The Big Issue Australia to read my review of Mohammad Rasoulof’s extraordinary The Seed of The Sacred Fig. 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Work announcement! Tarsem Singh’s magnificent The Fall for Umbrella Entertainment. Thrilled to have contributed a “making-of” essay for the accompanying book and interviews with production designer Ged Clarke and cinematographer Colin Watkinson for the disc extras. 120
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 17/01/2025RIP to one of my favourite directors. I hold so many wonderful David Lynch memories, often tangled with friends and loved ones, some now lost. I met him in Brisbane where I took this photo. When I told him how much his films meant to me, he replied, “That’s really neat!”. 020
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I’ve been writing about Rock Biopics at Flicks… www.flicks.com.au/features/bes...flicks.com.auBest big screen biopics: chimps, bricks, kitchen sinks, puppets and moreCGI monkeys, LEGO bricks, demonic French puppets, gritty kitchen sinks… For those about to rock, they made a film about you! 010
DMB @dmbjourno.bsky.social · 11/12/2024After working on Christopher Smith’s Triangle, Creep and Severance for Umbrella Entertainment, I’m delighted to announce I wrote an essay on the life and many deaths of Sean Bean for their new release of the director’s gruelling exercise in Pagan horror, Black Death. 030
