Lovestruck is Megan Spencer’s fourth foray into documentary-making. Best known as the long-time triple j film reviewer and face of SBS’s revamped ‘The Movie Show’, Spencer’s fingers have been in countless other film-related pies over the years.
10 years in the making but only 52 minutes long’which, alongside its 4:3 screen ratio, makes it particularly television-friendly’this [...]
This film’s premise alone is probably enough to get people interested. A bunch of disaffected, socially backward and just plain strange adults get together biweekly, dress up in steel armour and gaudy medieval costumes, and pound each other with enormous padded swords. All the while, they’re carefully plotting each others’ (or each others’ ‘countries’) demise.
Yep, [...]