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Fire up your DVR and get ready for some couch potato action next week, a documentary about Steve Jobs titled “ One Last Thing ” will air on PBS this November 2nd at 10:00 PM. The film is said to be an hour long, and will include interviews with Jobs himself, as well as his colleagues and friends. Here’s the official description: ONE LAST THING takes an unflinching look at Jobs’s difficult, controlling disposition, and offers unique insights into what made him tick. While there has been near-universal agreement that Steve Jobs was a great innovator in business and technology, ONE LAST THING looks into why he was so great. What were the influences that shaped his character? What drove him from such humble beginnings to the heights of success? Featuring interviews with, among others, Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple with Jobs and Steve Wozniak; Ross Perot, who invested in NeXT Computer when Jobs was running out of money; Walt Mossberg, principal technology columnist for The … [Read more...] about “Steve Jobs – One Last Thing” Documentary to Air on PBS November 2nd

The recently aired BBC documentary Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy may have a dumb name, but the show itself is worth a watch for anyone interested in the subject matter . About an hour long, it features classic footage of Steve Jobs, in addition to interviews with a variety of Apple execs and industry leaders, including Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Andy Hertzfeld, Tim Berners-Lee, Avie Tevanian, and many more names that will be familiar if you follow Apple history or have read the Steve Jobs biography. The video looks to have been posted to YouTube unofficially, so watch it while you can . … [Read more...] about Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy – BBC Documentary [Video]

Revolt She Said, a new documentary by filmaker Louise Lever. A controversial new documentary presenting Kiwis’ attitudes towards gender equalityfeatures raw and compelling insights by some of the country’s key figures including; Helen Clark, journalist Alison Mau, artist and advocate Lizzie Marvelly and leading academic Dr Pani Farvid. Kiwi filmmaker Louise Lever describes Revolt She Said as a “call to arms” and hoped to inspire a new generation of women to continue the fight of their forebears. “It is my true hope that people will see the film, especially young women and decide; ‘I’m worth it. My voice is powerful, I am visible.’ I hope that women will revolt and men will join them.” READ MORE: Grrrl power movement kicks back into life in Hamilton What has actually changed for women? As sport resumes after lockdown, it's time to level the playing field for women and girls Lever will be travelling throughout the country taking her film to Wellington, Dunedin … [Read more...] about ‘Revolt She Said’ documentary ‘a call to arms’

Back in May, we reported that filmmaker Ryan Unicomb is putting together a documentary that examines director George Miller 's unmade 2008 superhero movie Justice League Mortal . The director has already secured private funding for the documentary, which is described as, "an unbiased account of the project's development, preproduction and cancellation, as well as the impact on the Australian film industry." We haven't heard anything about the project since then, and it seems there is one major obstacle standing in the filmmakers' way: Warner Bros. Pictures. The director has contacted Warner Bros. Pictures, seeking permission to use their characters and images in the documentary, which is entitled Miller's Justice League Mortal . In an interview with IF.com.au , Ryan Unicomb reveals that the whole project essentially hinges on Warner Bros.' approval. Here's what the filmmaker had to say, revealing that director George Miller and his producing partner Doug Mitchell … [Read more...] about George Miller’s Justice League Documentary May Not Happen

It’s more a case of David and Goliath than “Batman v Superman.” Indeed, while the two conflicting parties grappling for their versions of the truth in HBO’s explosive four-part documentary “Allen v. Farrow” are both Hollywood celebrities, you don’t need to be an expert at rocket science to realize just how powerful one is compared to the other. We’re talking about four-time Oscar-winning writer-actor-director Woody Allen (“Annie Hall,” “Manhattan,” “Hannah and Her Sisters”) and his muse-turned-nemesis actress Mia Farrow (“Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Great Gatsby”). In the ’80s and early ’90s, the fabled couple did 13 films together. Woody, who’s now 85 years old, has made a film every year for 40 straight years, and is now preparing to shoot his 51st film—how prolific can you get? Mia Farrow (right) with Ronan (left) and Dylan—PHOTO COURTESY OF HBO Power couple Woody and Mia were considered a Hollywood power couple until their 12-year romance (they never married and lived in … [Read more...] about ‘Allen v. Farrow’: Docu on 29-year-old sexual abuse case a moral reckoning in the age of #MeToo