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 documentary takes us on a journey into the life Sue Chuter, wrestling fan extraordinaire, with tales of her first marriage and the birth, ten-year estrangement, reunion, and re-estrangement or her daughter. Oh, there’s a little …

William H. Macy, once again representing white middle-class America, plays Edmond the businessman run off his rails and clumsily plunging into a life of self-induced turmoil. Edmond leaves his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon) and heads out on the town, looking for some action. Unaccustomed in the ways of the underworld, Edmond continues to find his situation worsening, getting beaten and robbed. Fed up, he hits back hard with poor aim and finds himself in more trouble.
The warning ‘Contains scenes that may offend some viewers’ is true enough. Some of a more …

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, they’re nerds. The funny thing is that they seem to know it, and even funnier, they don’t really seem to care. For a group of social outcasts, the inhabitants of the imaginary world of ‘Darkon’ …

As a rule (And I have plenty of them in my narrow, sad little life.), I think it’s good to be wary of movies with exclamation points in the title. Especially when the preceding word is in another language. I don’t know what ‘Zisek!’ means; it could be ‘Splade!’ or something else. So imagine my surprise when I found out Zizek! is not the name of something boring’no’it’s actually the surname of a bombastic Slovenian academic, complete with green corduroy jacket! Strap yourselves in, we’re in for a roller coaster …

There’s that old saying that mums like to throw down their kids’ throats: ‘If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.’ Sarah Silverman’s mum must’ve told her: ‘If you can’t say anything nice, tell the whingeing cunts to fuck off.’ I guess it stuck. It stuck like a mother fucker.
All right, I think I’ve suitably set up what we’re dealing with, as well as completely alienated my family, friends, potential employersÔøΩƒ∂
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic is basically a concert film; 70-odd-minutes of stand-up with five short musical …

Roky Erickson probably should’ve died young. He’d be remembered as he was then: a snake-hipped, baby-faced rocker howling and shrieking on stage. After You’re Gonna Miss Me, it’s impossible to think of him as anything but middle-aged, jowly, filthy, with fingernails overgrown and hair matted into one giant dreadlock. In the grips of schizophrenia and psychosis. As he is now.
While Roky’s journey from 13th Floor Elevators rock idol to recluse is the ostensible focus of the film, You’re Gonna Miss Me is not standard music doco fare. Closer to Capturing …

Directed by Tim Irwin, We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen is a 90-minute documentary chronicling the life and times of ’80s punk band, the Minutemen. It also serves as a poignant tribute to lead singer D.Boon, who died in a car accident at the age of 27 in 1985.
The Minutemen never sought commercial success, nor did they receive it; but they exerted their innovative sound’a synthesis of punk, funkadelic riffs, mexicali rhythms, and even a touch of jazz’on a variety of bands, including Black Flag, Dinosaur Jnr, and …