From the Editor .   Humans must either have a self-esteem problem or just a paranoid mind-set but, in either case, there’s a constant stream of Hollywood films where aliens have to come and kick our butts.  As you’ll see from the polls at the bottom of this post, our global Smackdown staff ma...

Baz at Work Posted from South Australia The Smackdown.  Australia is a continent, my country, a state of mind and now, finally, a movie.  To get the silver-screen version made, they gave one of the most visually stylish directors working today more money than he'd ever had for a film before and le...

Editor’s Note:  With this review, we welcome our first “international� SmackRef, Rodney Twelftree from Australia.  He’s got his own movie blog there, Fernby Films.  Anyway, we welcome his new voice to our mix and hope this is the first of many.  To all our new Australian readers who come...