A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
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, 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…
Australian and New Zealand Films
?, “David Bowie Iconic” (2016) From the packaging, I thought this DVD was supposed to be a documentary about the British rock / pop legend but…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Stephen Jodrell, “Tudawali” (1988) Made as a TV movie, “Tudawali” shines a light on the Australia’s first major indigenous film star Robert Tudawali, played outstandingly by…