Film Review: The Australian Dream (2019)
byDirected by Daniel Gordon and written by Stan Grant, The Australian Dream is a documentary charting the career-ending experiences of racism subjected on Australian Rules…
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Film Review: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
byAlice’s story is an intriguing anomaly and a testament to the spirit of artistic innovation and originality. Alice was a trailblazing and prolific film…
Film Review: Defend, Conserve, Protect (2019)
byThe documentary Defend, Conserve, Protect has a simple purpose. Its title is the motto for Sea Shepherd, the not-for-profit organisation battling maritime slaughter, most…
Film Review: Diego Maradona (2019)
byAsif Kapadia returns for his third biographical documentary after the ground breaking Senna in 2010 and the equally impressive Amy in 2015. This time he…
Film Review: Apollo 11 (2019)
byThere’s no shortage of films and documentaries about the moon landings but with the 50th anniversary of those astonishing days fast approaching, Todd Douglass Miller’s…
Film Review: The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
byOne of my favourite things that Roger Ebert said was “movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. It speaks so…
Film Review: Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017)
byWerner Herzog’s own documentaries are interested in trying to visualise the invisible, in seeing inside the mind, the soul, and exploring the depths and…
Film Review: From Music into Silence (2018)
by“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” – Rumi For the past 23 years Peter Roberts has had one of…
Film Review: Soldiers Without Guns (2019)
byIs there anything those New Zealanders can’t do? From inspirational Prime Ministers to legitimate claims over Sam Neill, our Kiwi friends always seem to…
Film Review: Celebration (2007)
byTwo decades after it was filmed, Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent, Olivier Meyrou’s brilliant fly-on-the-wall documentary celebrating the last of the great couturiers of Paris, is finally…