Amazon Prime Video is the latest competitor in the Australian streaming and video production services market. While it has some excellent flagship original content, the pricing doesn’t justify subscribing to it continuously until it’s... Read More
Movie Review: Hidden Figures – Untold Story NASA’s African American Women Mathematicians
Hidden Figures is an inspirational documentary about how 3 African-American women tenaciously broke down racial and gender barriers while working as mathematicians in NASA’s Langley based West computing group in the 1960’s. Famous... Read More
Review: Moonlight Cinema Sydney Centennial Park
I’ve experienced watching movies at Moonlight Cinema Sydney Centennial Park several times, these are my top tips to enjoy the evening. Getting There / Back Home Afterwards Sydney’s Moonlight Cinema is located at Belvedere Amphitheatre,... Read More
Learn How Workplaces and Politics Function Through Satirical TV Shows
What you studied at school and university doesn’t prepare you for working life because it doesn’t take human nature, politics and how organisations really work into account. These are the kinds of things you need to know to survive in a... Read More
Oblivion Movie Review (Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction)
I just watched a preview screening of the science fiction film Oblivion and quite both liked it. It’s a fitting name because Oblivion means both the state of being completely forgotten like the main protagonist Jack (Tom Cruise) who has lost his... Read More
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson Movie Review)
Set in a small American island community in the mid 1960s, Moonrise Kingdom is a typical quirky Wes Anderson film with a theme of complex broken interpersonal relationships in common with several of his other films. If at all possible avoid seeing the... Read More
ABC TV London 2012 Paralympics TV Schedule for Australia
The London 2012 Paralympics will be broadcast exclusively in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and ABC2 TV as well as streaming via ABC iView video online between August 30th and September 10th. Channel 9’s coverage of... Read More
“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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More