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  • How Muhammad Ali became a legend

    AliDirected by Michael MannWritten by Eric Roth and Michael MannWith Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx and Mario Van PeeblesScreening at major cinemas REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT Michael Mann's Ali is a welcome departure from typical Hollywood

  • 'The Incredible Hulk on cocaine'

    Moving Mountains: Communities confront mining and globalisation Edited by Geoff Evans, James Goodman and Nina Lansbury The Mineral Policy Institute and Contemporary Otford Series Sydney, 2001 301 pages $34 REVIEW BY SEAN HEALY

  • Revolutionary music from 'sleepy Scotland'

    REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE In Sleepy Scotland Alistair Hulett The Cold Grey Light of Dawn Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick Saturday Johnny and Jimmy the Rat Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick Order at

  • Resistance interviews Regurgitator

    Since forming in 1994, after what they call "a brief interlude on public transport", Regurgitator has cut four full-length albums and flirted with every music style except polka and yodelling. The band rates as a highlight of its career "a 5am

  • An expose of Australia's racism

    Rabbit Proof FenceDirected by Phillip NoyceIntroducing Evelyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura MonaghanWith Ningali Lawford, David Gulpilil, Deborah Mailman and Kenneth BranaghScreening at Dendy Newtown and cinemas across Australia REVIEW BY KIM

  • Not so shallow, Hal

    Shallow HalWith Jason Alexander, Jack Black, Gwyneth PaltrowAt major cinemas REVIEW BY DALE MILLS So much bilge pours out of Hollywood that it is surprising to find something half-decent at all. This film is one of the half-decent ones. Don't be

  • Patrice Lumumba: 'history will have its say'

    LumumbaDirected by Raoul PeckWith Eriq Ebouaney, Maka KottoScreening at Valhalla and Chauvel Cinemas, Sydney, and Lumiere Cinema, Melbourne REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT Lumumba ends as the film begins, with a heart-wrenching dramatisation of the brutal

  • Has Henry Reynolds retreated?

    An Indelible StainBy Henry ReynoldsViking Press, 2001209 pages, $27In the introduction to An Indelible Stain?, historian Henry Reynolds predicts that after reading that book, "many people will seek more definite answers, firmer

  • The Liberal Warp

    [To the tune of "The Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.] It's astounding, how prejudice is growingand xenophobia takes its tollListen closely for it's about time you did soRacism is taking controlIt's just a jump to the rightAnd then a

  • Black Hawk Down a hit in Mogadishu

    Black Hawk Down, the first of the wave of patriotic US war and action movies being rushed to the screens following the September 11 incidents, opens across Australia on February 21. The film's Pentagon advisers hope that Black