A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Declan Whitebloom, “Prophets of Science Fiction (Episode 2: Philip K Dick)” (2011) Philip K Dick is one of my favourite writers, though more for the 1950s…
Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” (1986) In the wake of news that British heavy metal band Judas Priest will cease touring and will be in…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Max Bourke, “I Can Change Your Mind About Climate” (2012) It seemed like a good idea at the time: take two people with sharply opposed views…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 2: David Horowitz and Slavoj Zizek)” (Russia Today, 24 April 2012) For this episode, interviewer Julian Assange brought together two opposed public intellectuals,…
Samuel Hobkinson, “The Romantics (Episode 1: Liberty)” (2005) This episode introduces the political and cultural background to the explosion of English Romanticist literature in the late…
Samuel Hobkinson, “The Romantics (Episode 3: Eternity)” (2005) Visually striking installment in the BBC documentary “The Romantics” which traces the work and biographies of significant literary…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 1: Hassan Nasrallah)” (Russia Today, 18 April 2012) First in a series of 12 interviews conducted by Wikileaks dissident Julian Assange and…
David Keane, “The True Story of Black Hawk Down” (2003) A very detailed documentary about the events that led to the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993…
Ryuhei Kitamura, “Aragami” (2003) The Japan Foundation Office across the road from where I work put on a week’s worth of Japanese films during the April…
“The Art and Science of Face Perception” – Symposium held in conjunction with 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Saturday 14th April 2012 (Art Gallery of NSW,…