Here are all of my reviews of DVDs featuring television shows, feature films and the like.
Using Australian’s beautiful landscape and Canberra’s stunning architecture to full effect, The Code is a political drama following journalist Ned Banks and his autistic brother Jesse as they dragged into a major scandal with possible international reach thanks to a car accident in the outback. … Read the full post »
Season 1 of Borgen, a Danish political drama focusing on the female leader of a centre party, is best summed up as West Wing with subtitles and less optimism. … Read the full post »
This cult science fiction movie about a scientific disaster apparently killing nearly everyone on Earth is a real mixed bag. … Read the full post »
Predestination has such a tightly wound plot of temporal paradoxes that even when you guess the main twists, there’s still plenty to enjoy. … Read the full post »
Tony Scott’s 2001 spy movie Spy Game is, as you might expect from the director, a more stylish affair than most. … Read the full post »
The horrifying real-life story of how Russia nearly launched a nuclear attack on the US in the 1980s after faulty equipment indicated missile launches by the Americans. … Read the full post »
Modern advertising – and communications more generally – is enough of an international enterprise that most of Gruen Planet’s jokes and explanations works just as well for a non-Australian audience. … Read the full post »
Based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, FBI’s most damaging double agent during the Cold War, Breach is a deceptively simple thriller. … Read the full post »
Anno 1790’s setting, both in century and country, is a wonderfully refreshing change from the standard late 20th century and early 21st century North American detective fare. … Read the full post »
Although technology has moved on, Sneakers’ core ideas (especially the question of what the NSA is getting up to with its snooping) are still very relevant. … Read the full post »