Kick-Ass 2 – Mid-Week Review
Kick-Ass 2 is so much poorer than its predecessor that together they offer an informative case study on Hollywood’s obsession with violence, writes Sam Ryan.
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The Election Media and Human Rights: August 2013 – Mid-Week Review
How have human rights issued fared during the campaign coverage and exactly what role is the media playing? Pia Ella White examines the media’s performance.
Profits of Doom – Mid-Week Review
Maya Borom reviews Antony Lowenstein’s latest book, Profits of Doom, which examines the impact of multinational corporations taking charge of traditional government functions.
Soup Van: Stories Over A Polystyrene Cup – Mid-Week Review
Soup Van: Stories Over A Polystyrene Cup provides a frank, raw and incredibly personal look at homelessness. Read Sonia Nair’s review and an emotive excerpt from the book.
Human Rights in the Media: July 2013 – Mid-week Review
A series of events with sexism at their core exposed tensions in the media narrative on women’s rights during July, writes Jessica Szarcbord in this month’s review of human rights in the media.
“Subversive” by Pataphysics – Mid-week Review
Music offers a powerful medium for dealing with human rights issues, and Melbourne-based hip hop trio Pataphysics tap into a mood of discontent through beats, bass and hypnotic tracks on their album Subversive, writes Sonia Nair.
We Steal Secrets – Mid-Week Review
Alex Gibney promised an in-depth look at Wikileaks in his latest documentary, We Steal Secrets, but, like many, has struggled to look past the personality of its main man, writes Maya Borom.
No Fire Zone – Mid-Week Review
No Fire Zone is a haunting but important film that explicitly documents violent acts of war, committed in a supposed protection zone in Sri Lanka, writes Maya Borom.
Human Rights in the Media: June 2013 – Mid-Week Review
Can, and should, puppets be gay? Is QandA wasting time? How has Guardian Australia stacked up on human rights news in its first month? We address these questions in this month’s review of human rights in the media.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mid-Week Review
By Maya Borom. Mira Nair’s film adaptation of Pakistani author Moshin Hamid’s bookof the same name provides a delicate introspection into protagonist Changez’s (Riz Ahmed) struggle with his western consumerist driven identity and his eastern cultural, religious and familial background. This struggle is told as a first person narrative to investigative journalist Bobby Lincoln who […]
The Misogyny Factor & Destroying the Joint – Mid-Week Review
By Sonia Nair. It’s been an abysmal week for Australian women with a succession of calculated, ugly and unprecedented expressions of hatred catapulting talk of sexism and misogyny to the forefront of social and political discussion. When Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched the ‘Women for Gillard’ campaign last week and cautioned against abortion again becoming […]
Mother Courage – Mid-Week Review
By Maya Borom. Warwick Thornton’s Mother Courage is an installation co-commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the five-yearly modern and contemporary art exhibition dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. Thornton is best known as the winner of the Camera d’Or for best first feature at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for Samson […]