Over on good old Soda & Telepaths, more FoodxFilm Festival stuff. This time learning about Anita Chitaya, a woman more people should know about thanks to her work fighting for climate change. Learn all about her while watching The Ants And The Grasshopper, you know you want to
FoodxFilm Festival Review: When Tomatoes Met Wagner (2019)
Over on Soda & Telepaths, as part of the FoodxFilm Festival coverage, I watched When Tomatoes Met Wagner, a film about people playing classical music at tomatoes and then putting the tomatoes in jars to sell… it was actually fascinating
FoodxFilm Festival Review: You Think The Earth Is A Dead Thing (2019)
Over on the old Soda & Telepaths, I continue my coverage of the FoodxFilm Festival with a documentary called You Think The Earth Is A Dead Thing…. and yes, saying that title does make me want to sing Colors Of The Wind because I am a very predictable person
5 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Films I’m Excited To See
Film Festivals have had a hard go the last few years, having to adapt to the pandemic meant that a lot of them have had to move online. Over the last month I reviewed films for one of those festivals, the Sydney Underground Film Festival, but coming up throughout the month of October is the 6th Annual Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Between the 1st and the 31st of October, the MDFF will be showing over 20 feature-length documentaries and dozens upon dozens of shorts. There’s so much on offer that it’s going to be a challenge to pick what to view… luckily for you, I’ve skimmed through the list and picked 5 documentaries that I’m most looking forward to in order to influence your decisions of where you put your money because that’s the kind of thing I do.
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Free Guy (2021) – GOTY Material
Released: 12th August
Seen: 29th September
The video game movie is obscenely hard to get right, some might suggest that it’s impossible because once you remove the players’ ability to influence the action then you fundamentally change the story to the point where any adaptation just won’t work… I’d suggest it’s just because the people making movies don’t know anything about video games other than they make money, so why not make a movie about them.
Things can go horribly wrong, from the story not suiting the game (Hi Sonic) to the actors being horribly cast (Super Mario Brothers… both live action and the upcoming animated versions honestly. Seriously, Chris Pratt is Mario, that’s a thing that’s happening), it’s so easy to screw up. Then along comes Free Guy to do a video game movie absolutely perfectly.
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) – Shantay You Slay
Released: 17th September
Seen: 27th September
In 2011 the BBC documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 hit the airwaves. It told the story of Jamie Campbell, a 16 year old boy who wanted to be a drag queen and debut his drag persona of Fifi La True at his school prom. Keep in mind that back in 2011, Drag wasn’t as mainstream as it is now. At that point Drag Race, the show that would basically push the artform into the mainstream, was still a scrappy little show in its third season on Logo that would be lucky to rack up a half million viewers so going to school in drag was a big damn deal. Big enough to warrant a documentary.
That documentary then was seen by enough people to catch the eye of the West End and become a monster hit musical called Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and now the time has come for this hit stage show to turn into a movie.
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FoodxFilm Festival Review: The Taste Of Desire (2021)
The FoodXFilm festival coverage keeps on going over on Soda & Telepaths with a review of the Oyster based film The Taste Of Desire, which might not’ve been my taste but maybe you’ll enjoy it… or at least what I wrote about it
FoodxFilm Festival Review: Gather (2020)
Over on the good old Soda & Telepaths I’m reviewing films that are part of the FoodXFilm Festival, which takes place over three days and has a whole bunch of films that relate in some way to food. The first one is a film called Gather, about indigenous people’s relationships with food… and also genocide, it’s a fascinating film, you should try and find it and also read my full thoughts on it
Routines (2020) – Routine
Seen at the Sydney Underground Film Festival
Political Correctness is ruining comedy. That’s the phrase you will hear by a lot of comics who got really big in the 90s and haven’t changed their act at all in the 30 years since they started, expecting the same jokes that worked back then to get the same reaction now. You’ve undoubtedly noticed comics who get really upset that they can’t tell a joke that mocks a certain minority group but the truth is… well, maybe those comics just aren’t actually funny anymore and need to update their material. Routines feels like someone decided to take one of those comics and place him in a dramatic story of love and loss and it works – occasionally.
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Bad Girls (2021) – Talking About Bad Girls
Seen at the Sydney Underground Film Festival
The gloriously unsubtle is basically the bread and butter of the Sydney Underground Film Festival (which, by the time you read this, will possibly be finished for the year). Every time I’ve gone to see what they’re showing, most of their films are some level of bonkers, no ifs ands or buts. Well, it looks like someone’s stealing the show and decided to be the most bonkers thing around… ok second most bonkers, you can’t top Ninja Badass.
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