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Unknowing me, unknowing you – The Unknown Known review (Sydney Film Festival)

By Simon Miraudo June 6, 2014 Not even Errol Morris‘ infamous Interrotron – a camera-rig that gazes right into the subject’s freaking soul – can pierce an unyielding Donald Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known. Morris’ latest documentary isolates the former U.S. Secretary of Defence and sees him grilled on topics ranging from the World Trade […]

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Perth International Arts Festival – Tabloid review

Tabloid – Directed by Errol Morris. Rated M. Originally published June 12, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. This review was first run  – in slightly shorter form – during the Sydney Film Festival. Tabloid plays the Perth International Arts Festival from February 20 to February 25. Click here for more details The hilarious documentary Tabloid, from director Errol Morris, […]

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A Separation, The Kid With A Bike selected as PIAF Lotterywest Festival Films

The slate of acclaimed international feature films headed to WA for the Perth International Arts Festival has been revealed, including such fest favourites as MIFF and SFF award winner A Separation , Errol Morris’ controversial doco Tabloid and the Dardenne brothers’ newie The Kid With A Bike. The Lotterywest Festival Film season runs from November to April. Check out […]

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The 10 creepiest movie stalkers

The 10 creepiest movie stalkers. By Simon Miraudo. Errol Morris’ new documentary Tabloid (showing in select cinemas across the country) tells the stranger-than-fiction tale of former beauty queen Joyce McKinney, who in the late 1970s was charged with abducting, manacling and sexually abusing her Mormon ex-boyfriend. If you ask her though, she merely swept him off […]

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I’ll follow you until you love me – Tabloid review

Tabloid – Directed by Errol Morris. Rated M. Originally published June 12, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. This review was first run  – in slightly shorter form – during the Sydney Film Festival. Tabloid opens in select cinemas across Australia on October 6, 2011. The hilarious documentary Tabloid, from director Errol Morris, tells the stranger-than-fiction tale of former beauty […]

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Paul Rudd to freeze people for Errol Morris

Paul Rudd will star in Errol Morris’ next feature film, where he’ll play a man who freezes humans. Before you start picturing Rudd a-la Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mr Freeze in Batman & Robin, The Washington Post confirms Rudd’s character will be less “You’re not sending me to the cooler” and more “Cryogenics 101”. Rudd will play […]

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Sydney Film Festival – Day Five

Sydney Film Festival – Day Five. By Simon Miraudo. According to Genesis, God spent the fifth day of existence creating all the birds and sea animals. That by itself is pretty impressive, but He didn’t stop there. He also instructed them to procreate. So, not only did He create life, but He taught it how to […]

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Gag order – Food, Inc. review

Food, Inc. Directed by Robert Kenner. Rated PG. Originally published May 20, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Objectivity is a tricky thing. We demand it from our journalists, and that’s fair enough. We want to read news and receive information from a neutral perspective, lest we be tricked into thinking or feeling a particular way (some […]

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