Tag: Barry Humphries

  • Ozploitation: Twelve Australian exploitation classics

    Ozploitation: Twelve Australian exploitation classics

    Some might argue that it is paradoxical – perhaps even hypocritical – to follow a post lamenting the generally poor quality of horror cinema with one celebrating the schlocky oeuvre of Australia’s exploitation cinema during the 70s and 80s. I would suggest that an observation of this kind may well be absolutely correct, but such…

  • Leaving Home: Ten films about migration

    Leaving Home: Ten films about migration

    I was recently asked to put together a post on films that deal with the experience of migration by a friend who is about to take the big plunge. Of course, this is a huge topic. People migrate for all sorts of reasons, and so the experience is hardly a unified one. The act of…