Films and reviews

  • Who said what?

    A selection of this week's politically-relevant celebrity news... Rebel Diaz Arts Collective finds new home Cuban video game recreates revolutionary history Pussy Riot member denied early release from prison: Hear the new Neon Neon concept album about Italian publisher and leftwing activist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Rapper Danny Brown Gets Oral Sex On Stage, Continues Rapping

  • Who said what?

    A selection of this week's celebrity news... Talib Kweli: Rapper says of Boston bombing, 'violence begets violence'. Lauryn Hill To Record New Music To Pay Tax Bill? Yoko Ono To Unveil Not-For-Profit John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Flavor Flav Court Hearing Postponed For Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Rolf Harris Named As Man Arrested In British Sex Abuse Case

  • Celebrity watch

    A selection of this week's celebrity news... Lady Gaga Recovers From Hip Surgery in Gold Wheelchair Fifty Shades of Grey Porn Film Lawsuit Settled Giuliana Rancic Teams Up With Nonprofit Bright Pink for Fab-U-Wish™ Initiative to Help Women Battling Breast cancer That Taylor Swift Fan Letter You Spent Hours Glitter-Gluing? Well, It Ended Up in the Trash! Rihanna gets naked for a good cause

  • John Pilger: A strange case of liberal censorship

    How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, was banned in the United States in 1980, the broadcaster PBS cut all contact. Negotiations were ended abruptly; phone calls were not returned. Something had happened. But what? Year Zero had already alerted much of the world to the horrors of Pol Pot, but it also investigated the critical role of the Nixon administration in the tyrant’s rise to power and the devastation of Cambodia.

  • New film on murder of anti-apartheid activists

    On June 27, 1985, four anti apartheid activists were brutally murdered on behalf of the South African government. Twenty five years later, their killers still walk free. The murders of these four men illustrate one of the darkest passages of South Africa’s history. South African filmmaker David Forbes has directed, edited and produced the film The Cradock Four to tell the story of these four extraordinary men.

  • Rising Tide Castlemaine film screening – Turning the Ship

    • Regional VIC

    Join Rising Tide for the first Castlemaine / Central Victoria screening of ‘Turning the Ship,’ a Rising Tide film! ‘Turning the Ship’ describes the passion and drive of Rising Tide and tells the story of the extraordinary 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port. The highs, the lows and the triumphs! Come along wearing anything blue to fit the Rising Tide and…

  • Rising Tide - The First Wave film screening

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    At the end of the hottest year in human history, a Rising Tide of everyday people shut down the world’s largest coal port for 32 hours. Here’s how we did it. Revisit the epic People’s Blockade with footage from the beach, the water, and the sky - and hear from Rising Tide organisers and blockaders about how this historic event came together.…

  • Rising Tide Melbourne / Naarm film screening – Turning the Ship

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Join Rising Tide for the first Melbourne screening of ‘Turning the Ship,’ a Rising Tide film at Patagonia! ‘Turning the Ship’ describes the passion and drive of Rising Tide and tells the story of the extraordinary 2024 People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port. The highs, the lows and the triumphs! Come along wearing anything blue to fit the Rising Tide and ocean…