Keywords: The Killer Inside Me
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 August 2010
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'Anyone watching this saying it in some way supports
or encourages violence is watching the film in a very perverse way.' UK filmmaker Michael Winterbottom has a point, but one must wonder what scenes of brutal
violence against women contribute to the betterment of the public
imagination.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 July 2010
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As Meredith approaches, two boys appear on the cliff and call for the boat to turn back. This allegory for the asylum seeker experience is not entirely out of place: Meredith seeks asylum from personal horrors that lie in her wake. But the curdled milk of human unkindness flows readily.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 November 2009
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John Barton Hack was one of the prominent Adelaide men with the task of assigning names to the main streets of the new city. While his colleagues managed to imprint their names on the main city streets, all Hack got was an insignificant laneway in North Adelaide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 March 2009
4 Comments
Those who expect a portrait of a monster will be disappointed. Stone's Bush is not
exactly sympathetic. But he is human. He is even
likeable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 September 2008
3 Comments
The previous films of director Michael Haneke depict a media-saturated society disconnected from reality. His latest release is a critique of 'violence as entertainment', and every audience member is implicated.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Paul Mitchell
- 18 August 2008
13 Comments
Imagine Kevin Rudd in a Batman suit, and soon-to-be executed Bali bomber Amrozi as the Joker. Would the caped crusader's 'rule' — that he not become a monster to stop one — compel him to intercede on the smiling assassin's execution?
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AUSTRALIA
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 17 October 2007
A new generation of young activists was born on the streets of Rangoon last month. The war being raged by the Burmese military against its own people has faded from the international headlines, but Burmese young people from all walks of life continue to step up their non-violent resistance campaign.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Zane Lovitt, Allan James Thomas
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the films Land Mines, A Love Story; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 9 Songs and Downfall.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Allan James Thomas, Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson
- 23 April 2006
Reviews of the films Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; Me and You and Everyone we Know; and The Magician.
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