The Garth Method is a full-length feature that manages to surpass its low budget origins. Writer/director/star Gregory Pakis has gone to extraordinary lengths to create an honest, unpretentious comedy that features a miasma of supporting characters, each more memorable than Continue reading The Garth Method
You may have heard the premise already. There is an infamous joke known by all comedians, but rarely told outside their elite circle. It’s known as the Aristocrats, and it’s the perfect joke teller’s joke. In this doco we get Continue reading The Aristocrats
Based on the footage in this film, Timothy Treadwell seems to have been so caught up in environmental causes he refused to coexist with other humans – that he happened to film some amazing material in the thirteen Summers he Continue reading Grizzly Man
Telling the story of the USA Men’s Quad Rugby (aka Murderball) team and their quest to win the 2002 World Championships and the 2004 Paralympics, Murderball gives us a rapid introduction to the difficulties faced by people with these injuries. Continue reading Murderball
The film Czech Dream is a documentation of a large scale hoax. Two university students Vit and Filip managed to convince thousands of Czechs in 2003 that a huge ‘hypermarket’ was going to have the grand opening sale to end Continue reading Czech Dream
The American Ruling Class is a bizarre mix of documentary and scripted comedy, that never quite works, but has moments of brilliant insight. Lewis Lapham is the long-time editor of Harper’s Magazine, having held that position since 1976, excluding 1982. Continue reading The American Ruling Class
Making a documentary about the rise and fall of a trading company that dealt in imaginary numbers, (pretty much my understanding of the stock markets), risks being incredibly dull and uninspiring, and yet it also gives the filmmakers a great Continue reading Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
This documentary from the makers of the hilarious American Movie was a long time coming to Australian theatres. The Yes Men screened at 2004’s Melbourne International Film Festival, but I unfortunately missed out. Thus when I finally got to see Continue reading The Yes Men
Wow, what can one say about a documentary/mockumentary/dramatisation or whatever this is, that is so inspiring and amazing – and frankly unbelievable – as this? Harrowing, revealing, beautiful and shocking, Touching The Void is certainly an experience. In the 80s, Continue reading Touching the Void
Outfoxed attempts to convince us of the Fox News Corporation’s bias and manipulation of the American public, exploring the techniques used in great detail, but hoists itself on its own petard. How can a movie calling for fair and unbiased Continue reading Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism