Based on key ideas and theories in the bestselling book of the same name by economist Steven D. Levitt and co-writer Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics is a most unusual beast — a portmanteau documentary…

Psychotic clowns? Psychotic clowns with machine guns and machetes? This sounds either awesome or terrifying... so why isn’t it any of those things? Its 1973, Javier (Carlos Areces) a 30…

Based on the ‘Body in barrels’ or ‘Snowtown’ murders back in the early to late 90’s, and even with that subject matter, is the excessive nastiness really all that necessary? The…

Using the old ‘film within a film’ chestnut, Rubber is the story of a tyre abandoned in the desert that comes to life and goes on a roll (geddit?). His (for we find…

To hear that this film was made for under a million dollars (something along the lines of $800,000) and looks as great as it does, is really something. The problem however is, like…

Australian films and television have been condemned for almost forever, especially comedy. Is it the fact that we can hear our vernacular on display? Or is it the simple fact that we’re…

The Underbelly Files begin with Tell them Lucifer Was Here which covers the murders of two Victorian police officers, Rod Miller and Gary Silk who were gunned down during a…

Denzel Washington and Chris Pine of Smokin’ Aces fame star in Unstoppable, the new action film by Tony Scott (Domino, Man on Fire). The story involves two train conductors who must…