Not Quite Hollywood

The history of Australian films is the history of girls walking around rocks, dingoes stealing babies and Jenny Agutter in a pool of water. At least it is if you stick to the mainstream history. Not Quite Hollywood rips away the respectable façade of Antipodean cinema to reveal the genre known as Ozploitation: gore, girls, guns and a belief that anything is possible if you just have a camera, some fake blood and a stuntman handy. Quentin Tarantino is a welcome talking head alongside many of the directors and stars of the films discussed, their time spent on cinema’s fringes giving their anecdotes added punch. Although coming across at times like a glorified trailer, the film is so jam-packed with great scenes and witty one-liners that you’ll soon be on the internet trying to track down Patrick on DVD to see if they really did make them like that.