Film Review: The Look of Silence (2014)
byThe Look of Silence is the second documentary from director Joshua Oppenheimer to examine the mass genocide in Indonesia in the late 1960s. It…
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Film Review: He Named Me Malala (2015)
byIn October 2012, the Pakistan Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school, targeting her because of public comments she’d made…
Film Review: How to Change the World (2015)
byWith a clickbaity title and glowing endorsements from Greenpeace, you could be excused for thinking Jerry Rothwell’s How to Change the World is an…
Film Review: Graceful Girls (2015)
byAnyone who has ever participated in dance should appreciate Olivia Peniston Bird’s debut feature Graceful Girls. On the contrary, if exaggerated smiles, sequins, and…
Film Review: Gayby Baby (2015)
byIt’s been a volatile month for the issue of marriage equality in Australia. It opened with a full page ad that ran in The…
Film Review: The Wolfpack (2015)
byOne of the most interesting thing about The Wolfpack is the story behind how it came to be made. One evening director Crystal Moselle…
Film Review: Best of Enemies (2015)
byIn documentary film Best of Enemies, co-directors and writers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville take a look at a critical historical juncture in how American…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: Only the Dead (2015)
byMichael Ware is a fascinating individual with insights into dark truths many of us may only glimpse in a life time. He is the…
Film Review: Iris (2014)
byIris Apfel, the subject and namesake of the Albert Maysles directed documentary Iris, learned early in her life that she wasn’t pretty. But pretty…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: Cartel Land (2015)
byIn Cartel Land, director Matthew Heineman provides a terrifying look at the ongoing drug cartel crisis in Mexico by telling the stories of two…