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
Jacob Hickey, “Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 2)” (2012) In this second episode of the three-part series, the focus is on the mining industry’s…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Jacob Hickey, “Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 1)” (2012) If this first episode is typical of the three-part series, this documentary should be quite…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Robert Connolly, “Underground: the Julian Assange Story” (2012) Fictionalised dramatisation of an episode in the early life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as a teenage computer…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Andrew Fowler and Wayne Hurley, “Sex, Lies and Julian Assange” (Four Corners / Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 23 July 2012) Australian current affairs program Four Corners broadcast…
Australian and New Zealand Films
John Hillcoat, “The Proposition” (2005) A gritty and visually stunning film essay on the combined effect of nineteenth-century British imperialism and Victorian mores, colonialism and a…
Australian and New Zealand Films
“Sharia Money (Episode 2: the Price of Paradise)” (2011) In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and people’s realisation that the global finance industry,…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Anna Cater and Safina Uberoi, “Outsourced!” (2006) An interesting and pleasant personalised film revolving around eight call-centre workers in India and Australia, “Outsourced!” examines the effect…
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…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Q&A Adventures in Democracy – Richard Dawkins versus Cardinal George Pell (Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV (ABC1), 9 April 2012) Managed to miss seeing this episode of…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Sally Aitken, “Seduction in the City: the Birth of Shopping (Episode 2: A Modern Game)” (2011) Continuing briskly and trippingly from Episode 1 “A Genius Idea”,…