Film Review: The Report (2019)
byReleased in 2014 after five years of full time investigation, the ‘Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA Torture’ or simply ‘The Torture Report’ was…
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Film Review: Zero Days (2016)
by‘War. War never changes’ comes the saying that begins every instalment of the Fallout games. It’s a strange state of affairs that the most…
Article: Offshore Contention – Eva Orner’s Chasing Asylum (2016)
byIt was never going to be particularly pleasant watching a documentary about Australia’s much maligned asylum seeker policy but even going in with expectations…
Film Review: Going Clear – Scientology and the Prison of Belief
byBased on the book by Lawrence Wright and directed by Alex Gibney, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is yet another very…
CLOSED: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Giveaway
byThanks to Madman Films, we’re giving away 5 doubles passes to the new film GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF, in cinemas…
Film Review: Finding Fela! (2014)
by“Music is the weapon”. This is the war cry of Nigerian musician, composer and political identity Fela Kuti, the cry reiterated by his friends,…
Film Review: The Armstrong Lie (2013)
byThere’s a moment in The Armstrong Lie where you can’t help but root for Lance Armstrong. You know he is a drug cheat. You…
Film Review: We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (2013)
byIn his new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Client 9:…
Film Review: Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)
byIn 1972 Father Lawrence Murphy of the St. John School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, became the first priest to be publically accused…
MIFF Review: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2011)
byIt seems that each year at MIFF I end up seeing my fair share of fascinating documentaries. This year’s tradition kicked off with Alex…