Documentary
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...