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Movie Reviews: Cinema DVD and Bluray

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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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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Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil (ABC TV DVD Review)

Ever thought about where the petrol in your car’s fuel tank comes from? That’s where the story of “Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil” begins around 160 million years ago in the area now known as the Middle East, which was then covered by sea. The key players in this story are the plentiful microscopic [...]

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Despicable Me Animated 3D Movie (Review)

Despicable Me is the first animated CGI film from Universal Pictures / Illumination Entertainment and in that light is quite decent for a first effort. I attended a media preview of Despicable Me 3D and my verdict was a solid 3 stars . While the movie is certainly fun it relies on Looney Tunes visual [...]

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Better Off Ted – Dark Workplace Satirical Comedy (DVD Review)

If you’re a fan of Dilbert and the movie Office Space like me, chances are you’ll love the ABC America TV series Better Off Ted now out on DVD. Better Off Ted is a dark satirical comedy which follows the bizarre life of Ted Crisp, head of an R&D department at Veridian Dynamics, a soulless [...]

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Hubble 3D documentary IMAX Sydney (Review)

I’m very interested in astronomy and space so was keen to attend the media preview of Hubble 3D at IMAX Sydney several weeks before the public launch on August 12th. The 45 minute documentary is narrated by Leonardo Decaprio, who relates the background story of the Hubble space telescope and the STS-125 Atlantis shuttle final [...]

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Sydney Film Festival 2010 (Journeys): Cane Toads, Space Tourists and Sea Turtles

I used my Sydney Film Festival press passes to review 3 films with a “journeys” theme: “Space Tourists”, “Cane Toads: The Conquest” and “Turtle: The Incredible Journey”. This shouldn’t surprise anyone considering my other website is called Road Less Travelled “Journey” photo credit: Neerav Bhatt Review of “Space Tourists” documentary As a fan of space [...]

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