The Kettering Incident – Episode 5: “The Forest”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EVESFc5iwQ Foxtel's The Kettering Incident Episode 5: "The Forest" Directed by  Rowan Woods Written by Andrew Knight * For a review of Episode 4, "The Mill" - click here * For a review of Episode 6, "Roy" - click here We hear blasts from the past. Roy Macy (Anthony Phelan) consoling his young daughter. Furthermore, …

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The Kettering Incident – Episode 4: “The Mill”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EVESFc5iwQ Foxtel's The Kettering Incident Episode 4: "The Mill" Directed by Tony Krawitz Written by Louise Fox * For a review of Episode 3, "The Search" - click here * For a review of Episode 5, "The Forest" - click here. With the body of Chloe Holloway found right underneath her father Max's (Damien Garvey) …

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The Kettering Incident – Episode 2: “The Lights”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W61YtXVyDQ Foxtel's The Kettering Incident Episode 2: "The Lights" Directed by Rowan Woods Written by Victoria Madden * For a review of Episode 1, "Anna" - click here * For a review of Episode 3, "The Search" - click here Fergus McFadden (Henry Nixon) is out in kayak. He comes across a bunch of dead …

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The Kettering Incident – Episode 1: “Anna”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W61YtXVyDQ Foxtel's The Kettering Incident Episode 1: "Anna" Directed by Rowan Woods Written by Victoria Madden * For a review of Episode 2, "The Lights", click here. In August of 2000 we find ourselves in Tasmania, in the midst of the Kettering Forest. Young anna (Maddison Brown) rides a bike with her friend Gillian into the …

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Minority Report’s Speculative Fiction is All Kinds of Awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7DGMgfOb8 Minority Report. 2002. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by Jon Cohen & Scott Frank; based on the short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. Starring Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jessica Capshaw, Anna Maria Horsford, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Tim Blake Nelson, Lois Smith, Mike …

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Cell is an Okay Zombie Flick but King Can Do Better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCns4w3GA9A Cell. 2016. Directed by Tod Williams. Screenplay by Adam Alleca & Stephen King, based on King's novel of the same name. Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Stacey Keach, Joshua Mikel, Alex ter Avest, Griffin Freeman, E. Roger Mitchell, & Wilbur Fitzgerald. The Genre Co./Benaroya Pictures/Cargo Entertainment. Rated R. 98 minutes. Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller …

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave a.k.a The Matrix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8 The Matrix. 1999. Directed & Written by Lana and Lilly Wachowski. Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano, Marcus Chong, Julian Arahanga, Matt Doran, Belinda McClory, Anthony Ray Parker, Paul Goddard, Robert Taylor, David Aston, & Marc Aden Gray. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership. Rated 14A. …

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Come Get It in the Yarbles: Criminality in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Can we ever rehabilitate a criminal mind? Is some supposed rehabilitation too invasive? A CLOCKWORK ORANGE goes beyond either question with a look at a young man primed for ultra-violence.