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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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Damages Season 3 DVD (Review of Legal Drama/Psychological Thriller TV series)

GUEST ARTICLE: Damages season three picks up on the recent global financial crisis with Patty Hewes and new named Partner Tom Shayes pushing the limits of the law and ethics to uncover the hidden fortunes of Ponzi finance tycoon Louis Tobin (Len Cariou), a character modeled on the recent real life Ponzi scheme by Bernie [...]

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Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy on BluRay (Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Great Scott!! Switch on your time circuits and get your Delorean Flux Capacitor powered up with 1.21 Gigawatts of electrical power because Universal Pictures is releasing a newly restored 25th anniversary release of the original cult time travel trilogy adventure “Back to the Future” in high definition Blu-Ray. I watched the past, present [...]

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Channel 9 Resurrects Top Gear Australia (Studio Audience Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Will Channel Nine’s much hyped takeover of Top Gear Australia from its cash strapped SBS cousins capture an audience or send an already ailing show to its TV death? Motoring correspondent Pranav Bhatt attended a Top Gear Australia filming session to find out if the new host Shane ‘Kenny’ Jacobson can resurrect Top [...]

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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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Future of TV and Watching Video: Audience Shatters Into Million Pieces

When I was a kid in the early 90′s in Australia we had 5 analog free TV channels. These channels had big audiences because there was nothing else to watch except VHS tapes. DVD’s hadn’t been invented yet and home internet access was a few years away. By the end of 2010 I’ll have 15 [...]

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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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Australia Fetch TV: Broadband Internet Pay TV PVR Hands On and Unboxing (Review)

Many Australians who get broadband internet access through Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Internode and iiNet will be watching Pay TV channels as well as Video on Demand movies and TV shows via their broadband internet connection within the next few months FetchTV is a content aggregator (buying internet rights to movies, subscription channels like [...]

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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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Voyage To The Planets (ABC TV Review) Exploring Outer Solar System

ABC TV’s new locally produced 6 part documentary series Voyage To The Planets offers the viewer a chance to imagine they have gone on a journey to explore our outer solar system, giving them a guide to what’s needed to be prepared for the trip and living on the planet. Have you ever dreamed of [...]

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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (Bluray Movie Review)

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is an animated movie from Sony Pictures now available on Bluray and DVD whose use of vibrant colours really shows off the capabilities of new LCD/LED/Plasma TV’s and manic pace reminiscent of old Looney Tunes cartoons will delight both children and adults who retain a child’s ability to imagine. [...]

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How To Train Your Dragon (IMAX 3D Movie Review)

At the beginning of this review of How To Train Your Dragon I have to make it clear that I’ve always been interested in dragons and the expectation that this movie would feature many scenes of dragons soaring through the air was enough incentive to make me go to IMAX to watch it. “How to [...]

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Why Football Fans Of The World Game Soccer Are So Passionate

GUEST ARTICLE: Australian interest in “The World Game” is likely to turn hysterical this year as the focus shifts moves from the local A-League to the much anticipated appearance in the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa by Australia’s Socceroos. But will that hysteria by Aussie “soccer” fans come anything close to the diehard supporters [...]

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ONE HD and Youtube 2010 IPL 20 Twenty Cricket Indian Premier League Australian Schedule

The 2010 IPL 20/20 Tournament runs from March 12th to the final on April 25th. Network 10 has an exclusive five-year Australian TV deal to broadcast the Indian Premier League (IPL) which consists of eight teams competing in action-packed Twenty20 matches. All IPL matches will be broadcast on Australian TV by Network 10′s ONE HD [...]

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