I’ve written a number of articles on film related topics over the years. I thought I would group the main ones under a separate page. Some are basic listicles just thrown together. Others have a fair amount of scholarship in them.

Australian TV Plays

• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Four from George F Kerr – Filmink 27 Feb 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Cross of Gold and Goodbye Gloria Hello – Filmink 19 Feb 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Light Me a Lucifer – Filmink 5 Feb 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Subeditor’s Room – FIlmink 30 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian mini series – My Brother Jack – Filmink 22 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Sub Editors Room – Filmink 17 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – A Tale of Two Kellys – Filmink 15 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Who Killed Kovali – Filmink 11 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Devil Takes Sunday – Filmink 10 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Lady in Danger – Filmink 6 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Square Ring and Night of the Ding Dong – Filmink 3 Jan 2022
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Three from Australian Playhouse – Filmink 31 Dec 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Pigeon and Wall to Wall – Filmink 29 Dec 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Marleen, The Runaway, What About Next Year – Filmink 20 Dec 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Don’t Listen Ladies – Filmink 19 Dec 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – Treason – Filmink 14 Dec 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV Series – Whiplash – Filmink 11 Dec 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV Plays – The Small Victory – Filmink 21 Nov 2021
• Remembered Australian TV Series – Pastures of the Blue Crane – Filmink 6 Nov 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV series – Jonah – Filmink 1 Nov 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV mini series – The Hungry Ones – Filmink 24 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV mini series – The Patriots – Filmink 23 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV mini series – The Outcasts – Filmink 18 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV mini series – Stormy Petrel – Filmink 17 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Everyman – Filmink 16 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Point of Departure and Man of Destiny – Filmink 4 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Four from the Goddard Years – Filmink 3 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – two from Michael Boddy – Filmink 2 Oct 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – two Shakespeare – Filmink 30 Sept 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Tale of Two Hamlets – Filmink 29 Sept 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Blind Balance – Filmink 22 Sept 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Seven comedies from the 1960s – Filmink 19 Sept 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Tartuffe and Taming of the Shrew – Filmink 13 Sept 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Ashes to Ashes and Caught Napping – Filmink 3 Sept 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Martine – Filimink 29 Aug 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Casualty – Filmink 22 Aug 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Prelude to Harvest – Filmink 21 Aug 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Salome – Filmink 18 Aug 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Shadow on the Wall – Filmink 17 Aug 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Quiet Season and Enough to Make a Pair of Sailor’s Trousers – Filmink 24 July 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Monkey Cage – Filmink 21 July 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Astronauts – Filmink 11 July 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – In the Absence of Mr Sugden – Filmink 5 July 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Five episodes of Australian Playhouse – Filmink 29 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Drovers Wife – Filmink 28 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Sweet Sad Story of Elmo and Me – Filmink 27 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Tower – Filmink 22 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Corinth House – Filmink 26 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – A Season in Hell – Filmink 14 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Rusty Bugles – Filmink 11 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Kain – Filmink 8 June 2021
• Forgottten Australian TV plays – The Shifting Heart – Filmink 7 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – A Stay at Home and Across the Bridge – Filmink 1 June 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Cobwebs in Concrete – Filmink 30 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Swagman – Filmink 28 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Cell – Filmink 26 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Reunion Day – Filmink 23 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – She’ll Be Right – Filmink 22 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Split Level – Filmink 21 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Done Away With – Filmink 19 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Recruiting Officer – Filmink 16 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Big Client – Filmink 14 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Scent of Fear – Filmink 12 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Man Who Saw It – Filmink 7 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Tape Recorder – Filmink 4 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Antarctic Four – Filmink 1 May 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Big Killing – Filmink 27 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Murder Story – Filmink 25 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Rape of the Belt – Filmink 24 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Outpost – Filmink 16 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Harlequinade – Filmink 12 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Life and Death of Richard II – Filmink 5 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Hot Potato Boys – Filmink 2 April 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Case of Private Hemp – Filmink 29 March 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Reflections in Dark Glasses – Filmink 20 March 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Long Sunset – Filmink 19 March 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Romeo and Juliet – Filmink 8 March 2021
• Ten Female Drama Writers from the First Decade of Australian TV – Filmink 21 Feb 2021
• One on the tribute to A Sleep of Prisoners the first TV drama made in Perth and Brisbane – Filmink 19 Feb 2021
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Seagulls Over Sorrento – Filmink 20 Dec 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Merchant of Venice – Filmink 8 Dec 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – You Can’t Win ‘Em All – Filmink 24 Nov 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Marriage Lines – Filmink 19 Nov 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Grey Nurse Said Nothing – Filmink 17 Nov 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – Burst of Summer – Filmink 15 Nov 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – A Tongue of Silver – Filmink 7 Nov 2020
• Forgotten TV Plays: Pardon Miss Wescott – Filmink November 4, 2020
• Forgotten Australian TV plays – The Slaughter of St Teresa’s Day – Filmink 19 Oct 2020
• 60 Australian TV plays of the 1950s and 1960s – Filmink 18 Feb 2019

Interviews

• Sean Scully: From Disney to Australian TV plays – Filmink 9 March 2021
• Interview with Susan Lever on her book on Australian screenwriting (interview) – Filmink 17 Feb 2021
• John Guillermin: The Man, the Myth, The Movies (an interview with Mary Guillermin) – Filmink January 3, 2021
• A Chat with Noelene Brown (interview) – Filmink 2 Jan 2021
• Barry Creyton Live! (an interview) – Filmink 11 Oct 2020
• Annette Andre: My Brilliant Early Australian Career (an interview) – Filmink 29 Aug 2020
• Woody Allen: A Rainy Day Eventually Finds Its Way (an interview) – Filmink 4 August 2020

Australian TV/Film History

• A History of Blackface on Australian TV – Metro #206 2020 (link to purchase)
• The A to Z of Non-White Aussie Movies and TV in White Australia – Filmink 25 May 2020
• Ten Stories About Australian Screenwriters You Might Not Know – Filmink 29 Sept, 2019
• A to Z of Old Time Aussie Film Scandals – Filmink 28 Sept 2019
• Unmade Cinesound – Filmink 10 Aug 2019

Director Profiles

• Films of John Farrow – Filmink 8 Nov 2021
• John Guillermin: Action Man – Filmink November 17, 2020
• Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur – Filmink 14 Nov 2020
• Joan Henry The Jailbird Muse (about J Lee Thompson as well) – Filmink 30 Aug 2020
• The Cinema of Arthur Lubin – Diabolique 14 Sept 2019
• The A to Z of Russ Meyer – Filmink 16 Dec 2018

Articles on Specific Films

• Veritgo’s Romantic Spectrum (book interview) – Filmink 6 March 2022
• “John Wick with Spurs” – A look at Walter Hill’s Unmade The Last Gun – Diabolique 13 July 2020
• Trying to Make a Case for Royal Flash – Diabolique 17 May 2020
• Why On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is My Favourite Australian Christmas movie- Filmink December 27, 2019
• My Son John – The Blacklist 27 Nov 2018
• The A to Z of The Other Side of the Wind – Filmink 17 Nov 2018
• The Wicked Lady and Taste of Fear – Blacklist 26 Oct 2018

Articles on Audio Commentaries

• Francis Talks – On Francis Covers the Big Town – Filmink 11 March 2022

Actor Profiles

• The Campy Yet Surprisingly Interesting Cinema of Jon Hall – Filmink 9 April 2022
• Movie Star Cold Streaks: Hayley Mills – Filmink 19 March 2022
• Hardy Kruger A Top Ten – Filmink 22 Jan 2022
• The Emasculation of Anthony Steel – Filmink 23 Sept 2020
• A Tale of Two Blondes: Diana Dors and Belinda Lee – Filmink 7 Sept 2020
• The Twelve Stages of Saxon – Filmink 29 July 2020
• Opinion: Second-Guessing Woody Allen – Filmink 19 May 2020
• I saw every Sonja Henie film so you don’t have to – Filmink 24 April 2020
• Top Ten Male Film Stars of the Sixties Called “George” – Filmink 4 April 2020
• Kirk Douglas – Five Random Connections with Australia – Filmink 23 Feb 2020
• Helena Carter: An Appreciation – Filmink 14 Feb 2020
• The Cinema of Veronica Lake – Diabolique 11 Feb 2020
• When Stars Stop Being Stars: George Raft – Filmink 9 Feb 2020
• When Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood – Filimink 29 Jan 2020
• When Stars Stop Being Stars: Ryan O’Neal – Filmink 20 Jan 2020
• Errol Flynn Part 6 The Final Adventures – Filmink 15 Dec 2019
• The Nine Lives of John Ashley – Diabolique 6 Dec 2019
• Errol Flynn Part 5 On the Bum – Filmink 30 Nov 2019
• The Cinema of Candice Rialson – Diabolique 26 Nov 2019
• Errol Flynn Part 4 Going to See – Filmink 24 Nov 2019
• Errol Flynn Part 3 The War Years – Filmink 17 Nov 2019
• Jean Seberg: Five Connections with Australia Filmink 16 Nov 2019
• Errol Flynn Part 2 The Golden Years – Filmink 10 Nov 2019
• Errol Flynn Part 1 The Early Years – Filmink 2 Nov 2019
• Peter Fonda – 10 Phases of Acting – Filmink 26 Oct 2019
• The Surprisingly Interesting Cinema of Pat Boone – Diabolique 10 Sept 2019
• The Cinema of Tommy Kirk – Diabolique 9 Sept 2019
• The Cinema of Fabian – Diabolique 26 Aug 2019
• Unsung Aussie Filmmakers – Muriel Steinbeck – Filmink 25 Aug 2019
• Australian Movie Stars – Filmink 18 Aug 2019
• Unsung Aussie actors: Ron Randell a Top 20 – Filmink 10 Aug 2019
• Unsung Aussie Filmmakers – Grant Taylor a Top Ten – Filmink 29 July 2019
• Ten Connections between Burt Reynolds and Australia – Filmink 7 Oct 2018
• The Ups and Downs of Burt Reynolds – Filmink 6 Oct 2018
• The Burt Reynolds Cold Streak – Screen Space September 2018
• Top Ten Tab Hunter Films – Screenspace 10 July 2018

Writer Profiles

• The Cinema of Wilbur Smith – Filmink 27 Jan 2022
• Ron McLean – Filmink 5 Dec 2021
• Michael Plant – Filmink 14 Nov 2021

Random articles

• Ten Random Connections between Christopher Plummer and Australia – Filmink 7 Feb 2021
• Ten Screenwriter Disputes Which Might Make Good Films – Filmink 20 Dec 2020
• Top Ten Sean Connery Sub Genres – Filmink 1 Nov 2020
• Ten Aussie Sequels That Never Happened – Filmink 1 July, 2020
• Ten Random Connections between Hammer Horror and Australia – Filimink 28 June 2020
• What is the Greatest Year in Australian Cinema? – Filmink 2 June 2020
• Romantic Comedies – Which Couples Would Have Made the Distance? – Filmink 1 June 202
• Roast Beef Westerns – Filmink 17 May 2020
• Six Productions Rick Dalton Might Have Wound up Doing in Australia – Filmink 3 April 2020
• Top 10 Teen Films of the 1980s …with impossibly soulful male lead characters – Filmink 28 March 2020
• My Top Ten Bit Parts in Films – Filmink 15 March 2020
• Ten Billionaires Who Were Stung by Hollywood – Filmink 10 March 2020
• Top Ten 10BA Knock Offs – Filmink 29 Feb 2020
• Top 10 Unmemorable Films Starring Legendary Screen Couples – Filmink 3 Feb 2020
• Top Ten Australian James Bond Homages – Filmink 31 Dec 2019
• 10 Aussie ‘80s Films That Attempted to Jazz Up Things with an Inappropriate Rock Soundtrack – Filmink 30 Dec 2019
• Australian Film Musicals You Probably Didn’t Realise Existed – Filmink 23 Dec 2019
• John Milius, Film Critic – Filmink 20 December, 2019
• Unsung Aussie Filmmakers: Ivan Goff – a Top Ten Filmink 28 July, 2019
• Unsung Aussie Filmmakers – Don Sharp a Top 25 – Filmink 27 July 2019
• 50 Meat Pie Westerns – Filmink 24 July 2019
• Aussie Singers Turned Actors – Filmink 14 July 2019
• Good Sports: Australian Athletes Who Act- Filmink 12 July 2019
• The Aussies Who Nearly Played Bond… – Filmink 20 Feb 2019
• Films Hollywood Almost Made about Australia – Filmink 14 Feb 2019
• William Goldman Writings on Movies – Filmink 18 Nov 2018
• William Goldman The Screenplays – Filmink 18 Nov 2018
• Unfilmed Goldman Filmink 17 Nov 2018
• Aussie Directors Who Changed Sci Fi – Screen Space 31 Oct 2018
• Stars Who Ended Their Career on a High… and Those Who Ended it on a Low – Filmink 27 Oct 2018