Daryl Sparkes University of Southern Queensland I’m a film-maker who became an archaeologist who became a film-maker who became an academic. I’ve had films screened at the Maleny film festival all the way to Cannes and everything in between. As well as a Senior Lecturer in Film Production
Capitalist It was 50 years ago today that the first Godfather movie was released. The film struck a chord with an astonishingly large proportion of the world’s population (around 12% went to see it in 1972). It made stars out of Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and James Caan (hitherto
In the annals of Great Movie Franchises, the Kingsman series may not be up there with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, or James Bond, but they’ve carved out a respectable niche for themselves. Like, say, Stephen Sommers’ Mummy films, they’re at worst fun, action-adventure films, with engaging stars and
Daniel Kowalski fee.org Daniel Kowalski is an American businessman with interests in the USA and developing markets of Africa. The Apple Book Store has a lot of classical eBooks that can be downloaded for free with choices that range from all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s The Decline
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin Having recently read this book (an Ebook in Epub format) I felt compelled, for some reason, to write a review of it. It sounds like an unlikely candidate as a page-turner but once it gets going it’s a great read.
It retails for $35 and is available from all good bookshops or directly from the publisher www.trosspublishing.co.nz or via e-mail trosspub@gmail.com **If you order directly from the publisher, postage will be included in the price. Through the 1970s and 80s, English novelist Tom Sharpe published
The Grampus BFD writer for Insight Politics John Black has published his debut novel. The Grampus was sent an early copy and this is his review. It retails for $35 and is available from all good bookshops or directly from the publisher www.trosspublishing.co.nz or via e-mail trosspub@
Scott Morefield brownstone.org Scott Morefield spent three years as a media & politics reporter with the Daily Caller, another two years with BizPac Review, and has been a weekly columnist here at Townhall since 2018. The face mask debate is unfortunately again rearing its ugly head in many parts
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
He Puapua – Blueprint For Breaking Up New Zealand – Book review: Author: Dr John Robinson, Tross Publishing (2021). He Puapua, a new book, encompasses an in-depth study of the many issues surrounding New Zealand moving towards self-government for Maori. The publication, based on a report of the same name, is controversial
Michael McAuley mercatornet.com Michael McAuley is a barrister practising in Sydney, Australia. Cardinal Pell, the Media Pile-On & Collective Guilt by Gerard Henderson. Connor Court. 2021. 468 pages John Howard’s Foreword to Gerard Henderson’s Cardinal Pell, the Media Pile-On & Collective Guilt says as much about the
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Published by Zondervan Reflective (2018). A friend, who happens to be a lawyer lent me this book, possibly knowing I have a curious mind and enjoy looking into different topics. The book’s title indicated the story would be of a Muslim man who moved smoothly from one belief to
Michael Flinn In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom By Yeonmi Park and Maryanne Vollers * Available on Amazon Kindle Have you ever wondered what is it like to grow up in the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea? Well here is your opportunity to find out.
Alexander McRae If you are familiar with Jordan Peterson then you would have heard of the book Ordinary Men. It is about the 101 Battalion Reserve Police during 1943 in Poland written by Christopher R. Browning. The book has been on my list for a long time but I felt
This movie had so many terrible reviews, I had almost decided not to watch it. But over Christmas, with not much to do, the movie beckoned and with its star-studded cast, including Leonardo di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett (not to mention the very brilliant Mark Rylance)
