A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Reviews of all films made in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian and New Zealand Films
Benjamin Gilmour, “Jirga” (2018) The wonder is that this film got made at all as it was filmed in Afghanistan, and in areas possibly still dominated…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Colin Eggleston, “Innocent Prey” (1983) Maybe the problem is her southern Texan drawl or the overly bouffant permed hair but Cathy (P J Soles) does seem…
Australian and New Zealand Films
James Bogle, “Kadaicha” (1988) From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, thanks to increased Federal government investment in the Australian film industry, there was truly…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, “Ten Canoes” (2006) An engrossing story of another story, “Ten Canoes” acts as both a morality tale and an ingenious…
Australian and New Zealand Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Pavel Serezhkin, “The Hooligans: Joining the Kremlin’s Football Army” (2018) Here’s a very funny mockumentary that pokes fun at Western (and in particular British) news media…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Karina Holden, “Blue” (2017) Instead of bashing its audiences over the head with facts ‘n’ figures about the impact of human activities on oceans and marine…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Steven McGregor, “Servant or Slave” (2017) Few Australians have very little appreciation of the apartheid-style society that exploited Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islanders and even Melanesians…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Catherine Hunter, “Glenn Murcutt – Spirit of Place” (2017) A beautiful and graceful documentary as elegant as the architecture of the man whose work it documents,…
Australian and New Zealand Films, Korean Films
Alex Apollonov and Aleksa Vulovic, “The Haircut” (2017) Two Sydney undergraduate students’ desire to travel to North Korea to see if they can get hipster-style haircuts…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Philippe Mora, “Mad Dog Morgan” (1976) Based on the life of an actual bushranger who plagued Victoria and New South Wales during the second half of…