Director Jane Hammond Score 6/6 WA’s south-west forests are part of one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet and are recognised for their ability to capture and store carbon. They are vital to slowing run-away climate change yet instead of preserving them we are cutting them down at an alarming rate for charcoal,…
Movie Reviews
MDFF 2021 – Finding Creativity
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Director Roger Ungers Score 4/6 An intimate and pragmatic look into the creative process from those who harness creativity in their personal and professional lives. Finding Creativity is being screened as part of the 2021 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Creativity, it certainly is an odd choice for the topic of a documentary. I suppose that…
Black Widow
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Director Cate Shortland Starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh & David Harbour Rated M Score 2.5/6 Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her…
MDFF 2021 – DTF
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Director Al Bailey Score 5.5/6 DFT (DTF) is currently being screened in the 2021 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. A filmmaker follows his friend and widowed pilot across the world, to find love on Tinder. The quest spins to an expose of depraved behaviour. My first thought when I finished watching DTF (for those of you…
Night of the Sicario
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Director Joth Riggs Starring Natasha Henstridge & Costas Mandylor Rated M Score 0/6 Taylor is forced to hide the young daughter of a Colombian woman in witness protection who will be testifying against a powerful drug cartel in Federal Court, as ruthless sicarios aim to hunt them down. Okay, I know it is an odd…
MDFF 2021 – Australia Burns … Silence of the Land
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Director Shane McLachlan Score 6/6 In 2019-20 Australia experienced a catastrophic bushfire season, one of the worst on record. This documentary focuses not only on the fires and their devastating effect on Australia’s unique wildlife and eco system, but whether climate change played a roll, why was it so random and merciless and will this…
MDFF 2021 – We are Conjola
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Director Anthony ‘Ash’ Brennan Score 6/6 NYE 2019. Director and film maker Ash Brennan lost his house in the Conjola Park Bushfire which nearly killed his brother and many others who stayed to fight. From a Perth hotel room Ash saw the first image of what used to be his house in the background of…
Occupation: Rainfall
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Director Luke Sparke Starring Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies & Jet Tranter Rated M Score 5/6 Two years after aliens land on Earth, survivors from Sydney, Australia, fight in a desperate war as the number of casualties continue to grow. Okay, perhaps I should have done my homework and rewatched Occupation (Rainfall’s prequel which…
MDFF 2021 – Batoor: A Refugee Journey
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Director Barat Ali Batoor Score 6/6 Barat Ali Batoor was once Afghanistan’s most esteemed photographer working for the United States Embassy in Kabul. But in 2011, all this changed when The Washington Post published his potent photo essay exposing one of Afghanistan’s darkest secrets — the brutal trade in young dancing boys for the purposes…
Money Plane
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Director Andrew Lawrence Starring Adam Copeland, Kelsey Grammar & Thomas Jane Rated MA Score 0/6 A professional thief with $40 million in debt and his family’s life on the line must commit one final heist – rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world’s most dangerous criminals. The big question is why the heck…