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An error has ocurred. Please try againCountries of origin: Australia - 34 UK - 19 USA - 19 Canada - 1 France - 1 Italy - 1 Poland - 1 South Korea - 1
By genre: Drama - 40 Comedy - 18 Crime - 13 History - 10 Documentary - 9 Biography - 8 Adventure - 7 Action - 6 Mystery - 5 Thriller - 5 Animation - 3 Reality-TV - 2 Romance - 2 War - 2 Family - 1 Game-Show - 1 Music - 1 Reality-TV - 1 Sci-Fi - 1
Source: Foxtel/Binge - 12 ABC - 11 downloaded - 11 Stan - 10 Netflix - 9 Nine - 2 YouTube - 8 Seven - 5 SBS - 2 Disney+ - 1 DVD - 1
Original network: ABC - 15 BBC - 14 HBO - 8 Nine - 6 Netflix - 5 Seven - 4 YouTube - 4 ITV - 2 Adult Swim - 1 Comedy Channel - 1 Fox - 1 FX - 1 Investigation Discovery - 1 MTV Europe - 1 NBC - 1 Showcase - 1 Sky Atlantic - 1 Stan - 1 Starz - 1
By rating: 10 - Chernobyl, Fur TV, Summer Heights High (3 shows) 9 - The Corner, Freaks and Geeks, House of Cards, Mr Bates vs. The Post Office, Nemesis, Revelation, We Can Be Heroes (7 shows) 8 - Anzacs, Band of Brothers, Boiling Point, Captain James Cook, Fat Tony & Co, The Final Cut, Firefly, Generation Kill, The Howard Years, John Adams, The Killing Season, Pride & Prejudice, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (13 shows) 7 - Angry Boys, Black Snow, Clusterf**k: Woodstock '99, Dekalog, The Donny & Clarence Show, Fat Pizza: Back in Business, Fear City: New York vs the Mafia, I, Claudius, Justified: City Primeval, The Labor Years, The Loudest Voice, Mike Nolan's Long Weekend, Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, The Moody's, Pacific Heat, Ramsay's Boiling Point, Ronny Chieng: International Student, Show Me a Hero, Taboo, To Play the King, To the Ends of the Earth (21 shows) 6 - Blue Murder, Boy Swallows Universe, Darradong Local Council, From the Earth to the Moon, Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars, Informer 3638, Jonah from Tonga, Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity, The Mike Nolan Show, The Moodys, The North Water, The Pacific, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Squid Game, Time, War & Peace, We Own This City (17 shows) 5 - Bogan Hunters, The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, Limmy's Homemade Show, The Plot Against America, Sassy the Sasquatch, Underbelly: Vanishing Act, ZeroZeroZero (7 shows) 4 - Ja'mie: Private School Girl, Lunatics, Regular Old Bogan (3 shows) 3 - Warnie (1 show)
Countries of Origin: USA - 33 Australia - 8 UK - 4 Italy - 3 Canada - 1 France - 1 Spain - 1
By genre: Drama - 27 Comedy - 20 Crime - 15 Animation - 7 Fantasy - 6 Action - 4 Adventure - 4 History - 4 Horror - 3 Mystery - 3 Reality-TV - 2 Romance - 2 Sport - 2 Thriller - 2 Documentary - 1 Family - 1 Sci-Fi - 1 Talk-Show - 1
Source: Foxtel - 19 Stan - 9 Netflix - 5 downloaded - 3 DVD - 3 Nine - 3 SBS - 3 Seven - 3 Ten - 3 ABC - 2 Disney+ - 2 Ten - 1 YouTube - 1
Original Network: HBO - 10 Fox - 6 NBC - 5 ABC - 3 Nine - 3 Sky Atlantic - 3 Adult Swim - 2 BBC - 2 Netflix - 2 AMC - 1 Canal+ - 1 Cinemax - 1 Comedy Central - 1 Discovery Channel Canada - 1 Epix - 1 FX - 1 Nickelodeon - 1 SBS - 1 Seven - 1 Showtime - 1 Starz - 1 Ten - 1 The WB - 1 USA - 1
By rating: 9: Air Crash Investigation, Before the Game, Family Guy, Review with Myles Barlow, SpongeBob SquarePants (5 shows) 8: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Simpsons, The Terror, Underbelly (4 shows) 7: The Following, Footy Classified, Futurama, Houses, Miami Vice, Seinfeld, The Sinner (7 shows) 6: American Dad, Black Sails, Deadwood, Friends, Kitchen Nightmares, My Name Is Earl, Peaky Blinders, Rick & Morty, Supernatural (9 shows) 5: Barry, The Deuce, Fargo, Gomorrah, Hannibal, The Larry Sanders Show, The Leftovers, Marco Polo, Married at First Sight Australia, Suits, True Blood, The Young Pope (12 shows) 4: Banshee, Domina, Frayed, The Games, Get Shorty, The Outsider, Succession, Twin Peaks (8 shows) 3: Angels in America (1 show) N/A: Little Britain (1 show)
By genre: Drama - 55 Comedy - 32 Crime - 25 Action - 14 Thriller - 12 History - 7 Adventure - 6 Reality-TV - 5 Documentary - 4 Animation - 3 Fantasy - 3 Mystery - 3 Sci-Fi - 3 Biography - 2 Music - 2 Romance - 2 Sport - 2 Family - 1 Game-Show - 1 Horror - 1 War - 1 Western - 1
Source: downloaded - 23 Netflix - 20 Foxtel/Binge - 15 Stan - 12 ABC - 6 SBS - 5 YouTube - 5 Seven - 3 Amazon - 2 Disney - 1 DVD - 1 Nine - 1 Paramount+ - 2 Ten - 1
Original network: Netflix - 11 HBO - 10 ABC (AUS) - 6 BBC - 5 FX - 5 Channel 4 - 4 AMC - 3 Starz - 3 Comedy Central - 2 Fox - 2 Foxtel/Binge - 2 History - 2 NBC - 2 RTÉ - 2 Seven - 2 Showtime - 2 TNT - 2 The WB - 2 A&E - 10 ABC (USA) - 1 Amazon FreeVee - 1 Amazon Prime - 1 Channel 5 - 1 El Rey - 1 Paramount - 1 Paramount+- 1 SBS - 1 Stan - 1 truTV - 1 TVNZ - 1 UPN - 1 Vice - 1 YouTube - 1
Ranked: 10 - Breaking Bad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Chaser's War on Everything, The IT Crowd, Lucha Underground, Sons of Anarchy, The Sopranos, South Park, The Wire (9 shows) 9 - Angel, Black Mirror, Better Call Saul, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Game of Thrones, Justified, The Last Kingdom, Narcos, Rome, The Shield, Spartacus, Treme, Your Honour (13 shows) 8 - The Affair, Animal Kingdom, The Big Lez Show, Boardwalk Empire, Collin from Accounts, Counterpart, Dark, The Hamster Wheel, Heels, House of Cards, Kath & Kim, Legally Brown, Limmy's Show, Longmire, Mad Men, Malcolm in the Middle, Mayans M.C., Miranda, Mr Inbetween, Oz, Rake, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Rebellion, Six Feet Under, True Detective, Twin Peaks, Upright, The Vicar of Dibley, Vikings, The West Wing, Yellowstone (31 shows) 7: Arrested Development, Barbarians, Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, Dark Side of the Ring, The Inbetweeners, Kitchen Nightmares Australia, Muster Dogs, Nightfall, Love/Hate, Love on the Spectrum, Narcos: Mexico, The Office, Ozark, Southland, Wolf Creek (16 shows) 6: After Life, Chapelle's Show, Down for Love, House of the Dragon, Tulsa King (5 shows) 5: Squid Game: The Challenge (1 show) N/A: The Tribe (1 show)
Reviews
The Insider (1999)
Tension, Conviction and Emotion
The Insider is a film which easily could have easily been boring and forgettable, yet the tight script, superb cinematography and outstanding performances of both Russell Crowe and Al Pacino make it a compelling viewing experience. Michael Mann did an outstanding job of maintaining tension throughout the film, perhaps best exemplified in the scenes with lots of yelling, such as Wigand calling up Bergman after his confidence had been betrayed, the courtroom scene and the multiple times Bergman argued with his superiors.
On the negative side, I found the accent of Wigand's wife (Diane Venora) very off-putting and felt that maybe 5-10 minutes of the film could have been shaved off.
Dunkirk (2017)
Dunkirk Delivers on All Fronts
A film where characters are barely given a name and practically no background sounds like an uphill battle, but in Dunkirk the masterful Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, 2008) uses the impersonal element of war to deliver a chilling and gripping story.
Situated in the Northern French town of Dunkirk during World War II, the film follows an eclectic group of characters as the British forces undergo the evacuation of their soldiers in response to their encirclement by the oncoming Nazi army.
The film cleverly follows a non-linear narrative, interwoven into three parts; the mole, the sea and the air. Within the parts, different characters and story lines are followed which never directly interact with each other but are all influenced by the evacuation of Dunkirk.
The ensemble cast features a mixture of established stars and young up-and-comers, with no actor noticeably out of place. A personal favourite performance of mine was veteran Kenneth Branagh's role as Commander Bolton, who despite limited time on screen was pivotal in establishing the importance of the evacuation in its historical context. I believe the decision to provide little background information on the characters did hinder the film, as it was hard to build an emotional connection with a character you know little about. This was evident in the death of George (Barry Keoghan), which would have been more effective if the audience had a greater connection with the character.
As is accustom with the work of Christopher Nolan, the cinematography in Dunkirk is as breathtaking as it is realistic. Counteracting the ever-increasing Hollywood trend of CGI in every scene, Nolan employs a variety of practical effects in the film. At no point did any character, costume, prop or scenery feel out of place or unrealistic. To heighten this realism, Dunkirk was filmed on location in France, used over 6,000 extras and featured actual vehicles from World War II.
Perhaps the greatest attribute of the film is the use of sound. The score was composed by Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, 2000), the recipient of four Oscars and arguably the best composer in Hollywood. The soundtrack fitted the theme of war, utilising high tempo orchestral music to build tension in scenes with great effect. The use of this kind of music wasn't overused however, steering clear of the stereotypical Hollywood blockbuster action film effects. The music was used selectively, noticeably absent in scenes to highlight the dialogue and natural sounds in the film.
The film was at its chilling best during the night scenes in the ocean. As the incredibly loud missiles hit the near pitch-black ship, the audience became completely absorbed within the world and begin to comprehend just how scary the situation would be for the characters.
Overall, Dunkirk was an immersive cinematic experience worthy of multiple viewings. In any collection of greatest World War II films or even war films in general, Dunkirk is a must have and I would be shocked if the film is not featured heavily in the upcoming awards season.
Crackerjack (2002)
A ripper Ausstralian film with an important message
Crackerjack has a wonderful cast of Australian actors covering a very Australian subject of a sporting club struggling to survive and remain relevant in Australia. This film is an absolute gem from start to finish. The standout is Mick Molloy cast as the lead in a role which is perfect for his self effacing , lets have some fun demeanor. He is the gel that pulls the film along and takes you for the ride as the other legends of Australian film and TV play their parts to perfection. The film delivers a strong message that the places and people you take for granted today may not be there tomorrow and the world will be a poorer place for it. So like Jack , if the opportunity arises to keep something worthwhile going, take the challenge and be part of something that can be really great.