100 Bloody Acres (2013)
First published by Grolsch FilmWorks “You know what they say,” observes British backpacker (and keen drug taker) Wes (Jamie Kristian), “You can take the country out of the country girl, … Continue reading
Mark Hartley on Ozploitation, genre and the Cannon canon
First published (in a shorter version) by Grolsch FilmWorks Mark Hartley is the Australian director behind rambunctious genre documentaries Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) and … Continue reading
Long Weekend (1978)
First published by EyeforFilm Search a beach long and hard enough and eventually, amidst those countless grains of sand, you are bound to unearth a lost treasure. Long Weekend marked … Continue reading
Wake In Fright (1971)
First published by Grolsch FilmWorks If the principal theme of Ted Kotcheff’s overlooked 1971 masterpiece Wake In Fright (aka Outback) is the thin line that exists between civilisation and bestiality, … Continue reading
Wake in Fright (1971)
Review first published by Film4. Synopsis: Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) directs this paranoid tale of a teacher’s lofty ideas brought low in the Australian outback. Review: In … Continue reading
Primal (2010)
As it is screening on Film4 tomorrow night (22 March 2013) in their evening of Monster Movies, here’s my review of Josh Reed’s debut Primal, originally written as part of … Continue reading
