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Human Capital – Review
Human Capital is set in a large city in Italy. It tells the story behind the accidental death of a poor cyclist riding home from work one night (with lights). The story telling of the events...
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Eastern Boys – Review
The film begins with a gang of Eastern European boys working Gare du Nord train station in Paris. It looks as though they’re hustling and involved in petty theft, maybe even more. One of the boys is...
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JOE – Review
JOE proves that you don’t need to shoot a dwarf to succeed in a violent drama. Perhaps shooting a dwarf is the new jumping a shark? It is set in the US South and it is very Southern-gothic. Joe, played...
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The Captive – Review
Atom Egoyan’s The Captive is a psychological thriller about pedophilia, kidnappers and voyeurs who are given great advantages today through technology. It is also about how the families of the victims...
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Black Coal, Thin Ice – Review
Set in a contemporary northern industrial province of China, this award winning film is an entertaining and intriguing detective mystery. Our hero Zhang Zili played by Liao Fan starts the film as a...
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The Two Faces of January – Review
This film is billed as a thriller and it is set in early 1960s Greece and Crete. I’m not really sure it is that thrilling, but it is an old fashioned drama adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel. It...
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Fell – Review
Yet another film that I really wanted to like. It is visually really beautiful and mostly set in old-growth natural forests somewhere in Australia. The sound is also spectacular, particularly the sad...
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Wish I Was Here – Review
And so we come to a film that I was not expecting to like, but I did. This is Zach Braff’s second film as director, as well as being this film’s screen writer and producer, and it was largely crowd...
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Cold in July – Review
Cold in July was my final film of the 2014 Sydney Film Festival. It is a film full of violence and variously described as pulpy, dark, horror/thriller and funny. I didn’t find it very funny at all. It...
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UTS Library Retrieval System
The slide show above illustrates the progress from excavation and building to loading of the operational LRS itself. As you read this UTS Library staff are busy overseeing the load of more than...
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Are libraries Blockbuster in a Netflix world?
I read this earlier today via Zite, over breakfast at a cafe near our library: http://www.digitaltonto.com/2014/a-look-back-at-why-blockbuster-really-failed-and-why-it-didnt-have-to/ It talks about the...
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My place in time – photo project
https://flic.kr/p/qa6pXt So I ran across this project via the twitter and decided to give it a go: https://blackcurrantphotography.wordpress.com/the-my-place-in-time-photo-project/ Currently I’m...
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Reinventing University Publishing – my perspective
This is the presentation I gave as part of a panel representing the perspectives of Open Access publishers in Australian universities, in my case UTS ePress. PDF version on Google Drive
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Recent readings on open access and academic publishing (Part 1)
Manly Beach, summer by Mal Booth on 500px (in lieu of a kitten) Hello Sports Fans! I’ve been reading a few pretty thoughtful and useful articles of late about open access publishing, traditional...
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Recent readings on open access and academic publishing (Part 2)
Archaeology of Bathing by Mal Booth on 500px (public art, because I don’t like cats) And so dear friends, Part 2 begins … having finished my sandwiches (as Gerard Hoffnung would say). Do we really...
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11-808 & Conversations : Artist-in-Residence, 2014
Elisa Lee and Adam Hinshaw partnered as the UTS Library Artist-in-Residence for 2014. Works from this Residency are now prominently displayed in the UTS Blake Library in Haymarket, Sydney. Their brief...
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Results – review #sydfilmfest
Results is a dud film. I wanted to see it. It seemed to have good reviews, but it is a shocker. Even actors with records like Guy Pearce and Giovanni Ribisi could not save it. I cannot think why they...
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Mr. Holmes – review #sydfilmfest
Mr. Holmes doesn’t disappoint. The pace isn’t fast, but the story telling is both elegant and interesting. An ancient Sherlock is well played by Ian McKellen, but I think the limelight is stolen by the...
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Vincent – review #sydfilmfest
This film from France moves along at a gentle pace and effectively holds a fair bit back. There is very little dialogue, and the director, screen writer and lead actor Thomas Salvador pulls this off...
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99 Homes – review #sydfilmfest
Wow. Billed as an intelligent thriller, 99 Homes is more of a true-to-life horror story. It focuses on the home property foreclosures by banks in the US in 2008 during the GFC. It is powerfully...
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