This is a beautifully made film about an important story.
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Spreadsheet Champions (2025)
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Oh, what a heartwarming, cup-filling and optimistic documentary experience! I thought I knew what to expect from it, a bit of Spellbound, a bit of This is Going to be Big, all set amongst the world of adolescent super nerds.
Continue reading1000 Women in Horror (2025)
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Well, it’s a no brainer that I would love this. Bring together horror films and women kicking ass and Australian film critic, writer and legend Alex Heller-Nicholas and you’ve got a winner.
Continue readingCutting Through Rocks (2025)
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This is one of those deeply upsetting documentaries where you are watching the viciousness and callousness when patriarchy is challenged play out in a rural Iranian village.
Continue readingTrains (Pociagi)(2024)
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The Librarians (2025)
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I found this documentary deeply upsetting. I never thought there would be a situation where librarians would be the frontline warriors for human rights.
Continue readingCareless (2025)
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This documentary by Sue Thomson, who made Under Cover and The Coming Back Out Ball Movie, completes a loose trilogy that looks at ageing in Australia.
Continue readingOrwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
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I was thoroughly absorbed by this primer on George Orwell and the writing of his novel 1984.
Continue readingAll I Had Was Nothingness (Je n’avais que le néant – Shoah par Lanzmann) (2025)
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A documentary about another documentary is an odd thing. This is not just any documentary though, it is about Shoah (1985), Claude Lanzmann’s 9 1/2 hour epic made over 12 years.
Continue readingThe Python Hunt (2025)
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This rather endearing and slightly mad documentary about hunting for Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades is exactly what you’d expect from a movie about hunting pythons in the Florida Everglades but then a little bit more.
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