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“The Straits” Review – ABC TV Attempt At HBO Style Drama

People of Australia rejoice. There’s a new crime drama on TV and it isn’t Underbelly 52: NSW Rum Rebellion. The Straits is a new ten part series set in far north tropical Queensland and the Torres Strait. I just watched the media preview disk of the first 2 episodes and will definitely see the rest [...]

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Freakonomics: Study of Human Incentives (Movie DVD Review)

In “Freakonomics: The Movie” Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubnor explain why incentives matter because if you can figure out what people’s incentives are you can guess with reasonable accuracy how they will behave. Economics is just boring graphs and statistics – wrong. Freakononics challenges conventional wisdom by analysing how people behave in interesting situations, stripping [...]

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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 Cyberpunk Anime (DVD review)

Several months ago I published a feature article about Augmented Humanity and the consequences of Cyborg implants in human beings. Ben from Madman Entertainment read the article and sent me a DVD of Ghost in the Shell 2.0 to review because he said it was an excellent examination of what the future could be like [...]

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Inside Job (DVD Review) – Financial Crisis Catalyst of Occupy Wall Street Protests

The Sony Pictures documentary Inside Job says the 2008 meltdown of world financial markets was avoidable. The global financial crisis of 2008 was an “Inside Job” that led to a global economic recession, millions of people losing their jobs, savings and homes and huge increases in government debt in order to pay for corporate bailouts. [...]

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Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (IMAX Review)

Last week I watched a media preview IMAX Sydney screening of Sir David Attenborough’s 1st 3D documentary. Flying Monsters 3D tells the story of winged lizards called Pterosaurs (also known as Pterodactyls). They were the first backbone animals to fly over 200 million years ago and dominated the skies for the next 150 million years. [...]

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Fair Game (DVD Movie Review): the Valerie Plame Story

Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA Agent who operated a network of informants in the Middle East. Her husband Joseph Wilson was an ex diplomat who publicly questioned in the New York Times whether the Bush administration manipulated intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq. Senior Bush Whitehouse official Karl [...]

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Cars 2 (IMAX 3D Animated Movie Review)

Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his friend Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) are back on the big screen in Cars 2, Disney/Pixar’s new animated film. Car 2′s James Bond-esque plot is centred around a series of World Grand Prix races in London, Porto Corsa and Tokyo, during which Mater is mistakenly taken to be an [...]

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PAUL Sci-fi Comedy Movie starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Review)

As a big fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost I had high hopes of being entertained when I walked into the Australian media preview of their new science fiction roadtrip comedy movie, co-starring Seth Rogan as the voice of PAUL. My worry was that in order to get the $50 million budget they’d have [...]

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Formula 1 (F1) Racing ONEHD TV Channel 10 and Internet Video Stream Coverage

This is an analysis of Network 10 TV (Channel 10 / ONE HD) exclusive Australian live TV coverage of the 2006-2015 Formula One Grand Prix World Championship (Practice & Qualifying sessions, Race Day and highlights packages) on ONE HD, Channel 10 and new for 2011 free Internet Video Stream Coverage through a web browser, iPad, [...]

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Hungry Beast – Youth Oriented Investigative Journalism (ABC TV Review)

Hungry Beast is back on ABC1 TV 23rd March at 930pm. But what is Hungry Beast? That’s much harder to pin down. In the title I called it “Youth Oriented Investigative Journalism” which kind of fits. However other accurate descriptions include: may contain nuts (actually scratch that, it will contain nuts), deadly serious reporting on [...]

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Review: Babylon 5 is My Favourite Scifi Futuristic TV Series

Babylon 5 is my favourite science fiction TV series for many reasons including the continuous 5 season story arc, feeling that it’s like a future UN Security Council in space “our last best hope for peace”, first real use of good visual effects in TV scifi, great theme music and character development of human and [...]

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Evolving IPTV Poses Worldwide Challenge To Incumbent Broadcast TV Networks

Like it or not, thanks to the rapid spread of internet access and constantly evolving consumer electronics the media industry lives in interesting times. This decade is an inflection point where changes in technology and the media are happening with potentially as great an impact as the introduction of broadcast TV and radio last century. [...]

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The Adjustment Bureau (Movie Review pre release)

They’re the Adjustment Bureau and they have a plan setting out every major action you’ll take in your life. Freewill doesn’t exist and you can’t change your pre determined fate. Or can you? David Norris (Matt Damon) is a politician running for the US Senate for the first time. Unfortunately he loses the election but [...]

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RED (Starlight Cinema Movie Review)

I watched a screening of RED at North Sydney Oval’s Starlight Cinema using a press pass the other day and found it very enjoyable. A great way to spend a summer evening with a picnic dinner followed by a popcorn movie in the cool outdoor breeze. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is classified RED (Retired Extremely [...]

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Sanctum 3D (Movie Review) starring Richard Roxburgh Ioan Gruffudd

I just watched a media preview of Sanctum 3D the movie and gave it 4 stars . However that 4 star rating is strictly for outdoor adventuring types who’d rather jump off a cliff edge rather than walk along it, or big fans of Richard Roxburgh because he brings such a strong presence to the [...]

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