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Who is Glenn Dunks
Glenn Dunks is an award-winning freelance writer, critic and festival programmer, focusing on film, the arts, and travel who's riginally from Melbourne, Australia, but currently based in New York City. On this website you will find assorted links and other work of mine as well as blog posts on assorted topics. Click here for more. If you would like to contact me about anything including work commissions please contact me at
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Tag Archives: Australian Cinema
Spear Ought To Be a Must See in This Age of Diversity
Stephen Page’s Spear is the most extraordinary of dance musicals. Something completely and utterly new in Australian cinema. A work of such unique flavour that it’s hardly surprising to see it released on just a few screens nationwide. It’s true … Continue reading
Posted in Film Tagged Australian Cinema, Dance, Indigenous Cinema, Music, Musicals, review Leave a comment
Angry as a ‘Cut Snake’
This review was originally published on Same Same. The crime drama has become the de facto Australian genre of choice. Whether we like it or not, local film and television creators are infatuated with the sordid goings on of criminals … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTIQ, Uncategorized Tagged Australian Cinema, Gay and Queer Cinema, review, Sullivan Stapleton, Tony Ayres Leave a comment
Playing it Safe on the Streets of Melbourne
Play it Safe feels like a breath of fresh air amidst the Australian films of this and recent years. It’s a not a great film, but it’s an encouraging and admirable one that feels like it is attempting something few … Continue reading
Strangerland Tackles the Australian Myth
This review originally appeared on The Film Experience. Kim Farrant’s Strangerland is deeply, uncomfortably Australian. In many ways, it goes right to the heart of the country as a family infiltrate a place that is unfamiliar and even hostile to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Australian Cinema, Hugo Weaving, Kim Farrant, Nicole Kidman, Peter Weir, review 1 Comment
Partisan a Striking Debut for Ariel Kleiman
In an unnamed country, Gregori (Vincent Cassel) rules over a clan of women and children with what could probably be best described as a gloved iron fist. He’s not a cruel person, rather he is attentive and caring, but as … Continue reading
Historical Innacuracies Catch Up with ‘Milat’
The two-part miniseries Catching Milat follows a prick of a character. And I don’t mean convicted serial killer Ivan Milat. Peter Andrikidis’ drama, which just concluded on Channel 7, looks at the infamous backpacker murders predominantly from the side of … Continue reading
We Need Another Hero, and it’s George Miller
It turns out we do need another hero, and it comes in the guise of George Miller. The 70-year-old Australian director’s absence from the action genre since the proliferation of computer graphics is entirely what helps make his comeback, Mad … Continue reading
Posted in Film Tagged Australian Cinema, Charlize Theron, George Miller, review, Tom Hardy Leave a comment