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The Beatles: Get Back review – Peter Jackson’s TV series is a thrilling, funny (and long) treat for fans

  Photo courtesy of Apple Corps LtdThe Beatles’ Get Back project, undertaken in January 1969, has finally been completed. Again.For most of the last...

Social inequality and hyper violence: why the bleak world of Netflix’s Squid Game is a streaming phenomenon

  YOUNGKYU PARK/ NetflixSquid Game, an original Netflix drama produced in South Korea, is a streaming phenomenon. Released on 17 September, within two weeks the series...

Bring out the popcorn: the best films set to roar into cinemas in the second half of 2021

 Picture: Roadshow FilmsFor cinephiles, one of the greatest blows of the initial COVID lockdown was the closure of cinemas. While we all quickly shifted...

We asked two experts to watch The Father and Supernova. These new films show the fear and loss that come with dementia

 Olivia Coleman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020) IMDBTwo new films explore the fear of forgetting, loss of control, and other complexities that...

Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by

 Photo by MIKE TERRY/MadmanReview: Max Richter’s Sleep, directed by Natalie Johns.Music does things. For German-born, English-raised composer Max Richter, music is a “vehicle for travelling through the...

How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth

  Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...

Film review: Wild Things packs passionate climate activism into an overly polite documentary

 Picture: Potential FilmsThe content of some films is so close to the heart that it’s difficult to critically evaluate them. If you’re an atheist, The...

Ammonite: the remarkable real science of Mary Anning and her fossils

 Transmission FilmsThis story contains spoilers for AmmonitePalaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England’s Dorset...

Girls Can’t Surf shows how determined women battled sexism in their sport

 Picture: Don KingReview: Girls Can’t Surf, directed by Christopher NeliusThe documentary Girls Can’t Surf spans the 1980s and early 1990s as women surfers battled in and...

Borat’s wet firecracker of an October surprise won’t hurt Trump but succeeds as feminist satire

Amazon Studios, Four by Two Films It’s January 20th, 2021. Inauguration day. A triumphant Joe Biden salutes the National Mall crowd (way bigger than...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.