A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Australian and New Zealand Films, Chinese and Chinese-language Films
“The Secret Armada” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 14 July 2020) Despite the spine-tingling thrill of the episode title, this piece on apparent North Korean fishing…
Australian and New Zealand Films
John Tatoulis, “The Silver Brumby” (1993) Notable mainly for featuring a very young Russell Crowe near the beginning of his acting career, this film is framed…
Australian and New Zealand Films, Northern European Films
“The Swedish Model” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 30 June 2020) In March 2020, when the SARS-CoV-2 virus had been circulating in Europe for at least…
Australian and New Zealand Films
“No Justice, No Peace” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 16 June 2020) Remarkable for what it fails to say and do, this episode purports to investigate…
Australian and New Zealand Films
“The Doctor vs the President” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2 June 2020) Even during the COVID-19 global pandemic, Western mainstream news media outlets can never…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Tony Tilse, “Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears” (2020) Filmed as an addition to the television series about the 1920s flapper / private detective Phryne…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Dagogo Altraide, “WeWork – The $47 Billion Disaster” (ColdFusion,2019) Some workers probably wish their employers would make their working lives fun for them by sending them…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Catherine Bonny, “Colony” (2018) Partly informed by the history of early European settlement in Australia, as well as perhaps stories of the treatment of prisoners in…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Denise Brailey, “Bank Mortgage Fraud Explained” (Citizens Electoral Council, September 2018) Denise Brailey of the Banking and Finance Consumers Support Association (BFCSA) gave a presentation to…
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…