Utilizing the resources of Australia's National Film & Sound Archive where the author was a SAR Research Fellow, Australian Film Tales is a collection of anecdotes covering a century of Aussie cinema. Covering the backstories to many of Australia'...

Quoting the Movies in the Age of Home Theatre. Your favourite movie quotes in the one handy e-resource: an e-anthology of the most memorable, sexiest, strangest and funniest quotes from a century of cinema. "Are you talking to me?" Damn straigh...

This is a DVD review of an adult film made approximately in 2001 though its clandestine nature and the successful prosecution by US authorities of the film’s distributor (if not filmmaker) makes it difficult to date accurately. The review is...

Before Boogie Nights. Before Deep Throat. From the New York underground swinger set he emerged to transform adult filmmaking with a visionary zeal. With a handheld camera he adored naked, copulating bodies. With a sharp intelligence he satirized...

Christian Reclamation of Rationalist Myth in 3 Screen Versions of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend. The mid-1960s version starring Vincent Price, The Last Man on Earth, established the story as a rationalist | humanist horror / sci-fi mo...

The famous director who roughed up a death row inmate during a prison interview to get the emotional reaction he wanted | the Disney movie into which was inserted an image from Playboy magazine forcing a VHS recall | the model for a company whose ...

An e-companion to the home theatre experience. In-depth reviews of 25 rewarding DVD / Blu-Ray movies for discerning adults who like to read about rewarding viewing. Scholarly analysis meets popular film reviewing in this second installment of a d...

Theatre may claim the monologue as its own but the movies have since claimed it as part and parcel of a successful hit. The best, most powerful and most memorable movie moments are often in the form of sensational movie monologues: fifty of the b...

A case study of Australian Film Censorship: the 1976 Swedish film Thriller: a Cruel Picture. A rape-revenge drama once favorited by Quentin Tarantino and freely available on DVD in the USA through many retailers, Thriller a Cruel Picture remains ...

A case study in Australian film censorship. Christian Australia felt Adrian Lyne's film of Lolita went too far - it violated God's Laws by validating and encouraging paedophilia. The Christian Right gathered en masse to lobby the Australian Parli...