Directors Wade Jackson and Greg Carey Score 6/6 In the 1970s, Memphis musician Van Duren was tipped to be the next Paul McCartney but instead faded into obscurity. Years later, two Australian friends come across his record and set out to discover what went wrong. Okay. Before watching this documentary if you haven’t the slightest…
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Tommy Emmanuel : The Endless Road – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Jeremy Dylan Score 5.5/6 From the Australian outback to Music City USA, a child guitar prodigy dedicates his life to become the world’s greatest acoustic guitarist, even as revelations of dark family secrets send him into a battle with addiction that threatens to destroy his career, his family and his life. Even though I…
Saving Warru – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Daniel Clarke and Amy Pysden Score 5.5/6 Warru, or black-footed rock-wallaby, is one of South Australia’s most endangered mammals. In 2007, when numbers dropped below 200 in the remote central desert, the Warru Recovery Team was formed to help save the precious species from extinction. If you go to a film festival, I feel…
Singled Out – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Mariona Guiu & Ariadna Relea Score 5/6 Singled [Out] tells the story of five educated women in four corners of the world: Jules in Melbourne, Manu in Barcelona, Shu and Yang in Shanghai, and Melek in Istambul -they all travel solo in a world where pairing up is the norm. Together with the voices…
Mysterious Insanity 3 – Transmorphers
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Director Leigh Scott Starring Matthew Wolf, Amy Weber, Shaley Scott Rated M Score 2/6 A race of alien robots have conquered Earth and forced humanity underground. After 400 years, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders in the ultimate battle between man and machine. For those of you who…
Mysterious Insanity 3 – 100 Degrees Below Zero
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Director R.D. Braunstein Starring Jeff Fahey, Sara Malakul Lane, Marc Ewins Score 1/6 When a chain of volcanic eruptions rips through Europe, the enormous ash cloud blocks out the sun, plunging the continent into a new ice age. An American couple must find their kids and get them out of Paris before it freezes over.…
Mysterious Insanity 3 – Apocalypse Pompeii
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Director R.D. Braunstein Starring Jeff Fahey, Sara Malakul Lane, Marc Ewins Score 1/6 When a chain of volcanic eruptions rips through Europe, the enormous ash cloud blocks out the sun, plunging the continent into a new ice age. An American couple must find their kids and get them out of Paris before it freezes over.…
Mysterious Insanity 3: Nazis at the Center of the Earth
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Director Joseph J. Lawson Starring Dominique Swain, Jake Busey & Christopher Karl Johnson Rated MA Score 1/6 Researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a team of masked storm troopers. They are dragged deep underground to a hidden continent in the center of the earth. Here Nazi survivors, their bodies a horrifying patchwork of decaying and…
Homefront – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Michael Wilkins Score 4/6 What happens when you destroy a war memorial and what do you put in its place? These questions faced Arts Officer, Colin James, and Project Manager and Artist, Amanda Gibson as they looked for ways to replace the much-loved Greensborough War Memorial statues, which had stood for 14 years in…
Red Sunday: Healing Through Narrative Therapy – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Hannah Cairns Rated 4/6 In the documentary, Red Sunday, community members of rural far east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia recount their experiences regarding the devastating 2014 bush fires, which lasted nearly 70 long, unpredictable, and traumatic days. Red Sunday is the first in a series of reviews of Documentaries that are going to be screened…