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Reviews
Elixir (2001)
Ill advised
Yet another god-awful piece of debris in the wasteland of credit card features littering the Australian cinematic landscape.
Obviously made with little money and even less talent, direct to DVD would be too good for this ill-advised exercise in banality.
Featuring soap-opera performances, shoddy direction and corporate video cinematography, the only good thing that could be said about this film is that at 82 minutes, it's over quicker than most feature films.
Tiriel Mora, an otherwise excellent actor, wanders gamely through his scenes, presumably trying not to laugh in the face of implausible plot turns, sub-infomercial dialogue and the kind of acting that would embarrass a pre-school pantomime audience.
AVOID this film, at all costs...
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)
A poorly made film resting entirely on the powerful subject
This film did little to advance an idea of Chomsky as a person, or even to interestingly frame any of his ideas. It provided no thesis or direction and was satisfied instead to aim the camera at the man as he travelled college campuses speaking to audiences. It seemed to be little more than one man and a handycam, which is fine in principle, but, in this case anyway, terrible in practice. If it weren't for the thoroughly compelling nature of the man himself and his views, I would consider this an utter waste of time.