mick-staines Reviews

Bright Green Lies (2021)

It's the worst option piece.

[1/10 · 10 August 2021]

The opening scene berates solar energy and blasts the manufacturing process, with no clue as to the difference between the process now vs 20 years ago. It highlights their views whitg the most nagative extremism against green energy. The premise is; why bother having a shower everyday, because I'm only going to get dirty again. It did have some interesting facts, but the narrow minded views left me cringing. I worry about people like these, and the impact on younger people.

Black '47 (2018)

An Irish Masterpiece

[9/10 · 5 September 2018]

Feeney (the persuasive, unexpectedly Australian James Frecheville) plays an Irish Ranger who returns from wars in Afghanistan to find his family caught in the cogs of the developing holocaust. Heaving around a head like an Easter Island statue decorated with weeds, Feeney soon encounters even worse outrages and, setting aside ideas of emigration, vows to pursue a war against the administrators and colonialist bandits. This is a must see...