These are the voyages...

My favourite local cafe is Doc Brown. The owner is a big Back to the Future fan, hence the name of his cafe. He is also a huge movie buff and can talk to you about movies for ages. We’ve been swapping notes on things to watch for years now. His level of knowledge about directors, actors, film scores, would put some reviewers to shame.

Earlier in the week he hosted a movie night at a nearby venue, which just happens to have a 40 seat theatre in it. He gave some introductory comments and then we watched Not Quite Hollywood, a documentary about the “wild untold story of ozploitation”. Afterwards he started some conversation going by offering some thoughts and posing a few questions and then we were talking about the documentary itself and also the movies it covered.

What I really liked about the evening was the way it was clear movies were a passion of his and the absolute kick he was getting out of sharing his knowledge with a disparate group of people; the only thing we all had in common was being a regular at Doc Brown. I love watching people get animated about the thing they're passionate about, particularly if it is completely unrelated to their work. You can be passionate about your work but it’s healthy to have outside interests which are more or at least as important.

The other thing I liked was it reminded me to go hunt down Turkey Shoot, a completely bonkers movie from 1982.