Tag: movie review
Not Quite Hollywood movie review
Have you yearned to know what Aussie cinema was like in the seventies? Did you even know there was one? Did you know that for love nor money, you can’t find a decent print of Mad Max in Australia, because they were all played to buggery at the drive ins? All this and more is [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Movie Reviews.
Tags: Add new tag, alvin purple, aussie films, barry mckenzie, cinema documentary, classic australian cinema, drive in, mad max, movie review, ozsploitation
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The King of Kong - when nerds take the gloves off
Man I have been overdosing lately on crazy docos. And this one is by far the most bizarre. Have you ever seen two nerds in high school take each other to task in a presentation. Ripping each other to pieces with bane minutia, footnotes and factoids to try and find wholes in the other’s argument? [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2008 under Colourful stuff (content warning), Movie Reviews.
Tags: billy mitchell, donkey kong, donkey kong record, guiness book of records, movie review, retro games, steve weibe, video games documentary
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Confessions of a Superhero review.
I’ll keep this short and sweet. COAS is an absolute corker. They follow around 4 semi professional actors that impersonate super heroes on Hollywood boulevard, taking photos with tourists for a living. One is a compulsive and dedicated Superman; one a Clooney lookalike with a dirty past and a worse temper; one the perfect cheerleader [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2008 under Movie Reviews.
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Cocaine Cowboys review
Finally a doco that jumps off the shelves at you saying ‘buy me, buy me!’ With the graffitied uzi on the cover it delivers its fair share of gung ho violence. What it doesn’t truly delivery is the first class raconteuring the production company claim they excel at.
Firstly a bit of background. This is a [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2008 under Movie Reviews.
Tags: 80s cocaine epidemic, cocaine, cocaine cowboys dvd, crack, drug problem, drug smuggling, drug violence, escobar, miami, movie review, narcotics, war on drugs
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Juno Movie Review
Brilliantly honest, suburban and quirky, Juno is the next arthouse flick from the middle of nowhere. Juno is a sixteen year old high school girl that falls pregnant to her best friend, a dorky athletics champ played by Michael Cera from the great Arrested Development. Having too much heart to deal with abortion, she decides [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2008 under Movie Reviews.
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The Corporation
NOTE: if you\’re in OZ, you can see parts 2 and 3 of the corporation on SBS, Weds 12 and 19, 8.30PM.
Full kudos to SBS in Australia for making a 3-part series of the movie \’The Corporation\’. Just like in Supersize Me, when they challenge people on the street and ask \’What is a calorie?\’ [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2005 under Movie Reviews, Politics.
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