Documentary
The Healing Review
This 2022 documentary is made in Australia and focuses on the work of Scott Brodie, who is a former policeman who runs a self-created therapy course. He takes horses that can no longer race and he re-trains and re-homes them. Brodie sees the horses as so highly trained, that they can’t merely be retired when their racing days are over. He believes they need to be taught how to live like a normal h...
Circus of the Scars Review
Hasn’t everyone dreamt of running away to the circus at one point in their lives? Well, if you’re headed to Circus of the Scars it might turn into a nightmare, but at least it’ll be fun. Circus of The Scars is a documentary following the unique phenomenon of 1990s grunge rock circus sideshow acts from the Pacific Northwest, chiefly the Jim Rose Circus. Primarily comprised of rough-cut archival fo...
McEnroe Review
American John McEnroe Jnr was a major figure in professional tennis from the late 1970s and into the 1980s. He captured international attention as he played the major tournaments because he started as an unknown amateur eighteen-year-old who quickly showed amazing skills up against the champions of the time, like Jimmy Connors. What this new feature-length documentary MCENROE does, is it drops us ...
Under Cover Review
Women over 50 are the fastest growing cohort of homeless people in Australia. UNDER COVER is a confronting, yet kind documentary, about the real people behind the statistics. It shares the stories of ten very different women. They come from all types of lives. Yet they all experience homelessness, or the very real threat of it. After a lifetime of looking after others – often labour that wa...
Blind Ambition Review
When it comes to wine, there are those of us who exhibit a Michael Scott level of knowledge – perhaps we buy based on the label or on the heaviest savings ratio at our local. Then there are others – four Zimbabwean refugees who fled their country separately and somehow ended up in a wine tasting team competing at an international industry event, let’s say – who can guess from a s...