This two disc release is highly recommended for anyone who wants to be immersed in the making of this film. Extensive and comprehensive extras provide as much entertainment and thrills as the film itself, albeit in a different way. It’s a spectacular package in which the extra material has been as carefully produced as the film, and with a tremendous variety of inputs from cast and crew.... Source: Urban Cinefile  more

Barely feature length at 57 minutes, Backroads is a truly impressive first film from Phillip Noyce, who went on to make the multi award winning Newsfront a year later. Backroads is a road movie that fires on all cylinders: it’s funny, it’s political, it’s engaging and the characters are tangibly real in a definitive landscape – photographed by the great Russell Boyd.... Source: Urban Cinefile  more

Giggles and laughs are the aim and most of them work, at least for a warm and friendly home audience, while the low budget look matches the low budget ‘castle’ of the title, the Kerrigan’s humble home. The story concept has all the elements of a true blue comedy with the underlying emotional propellant mix of the ‘little battler against the big business world’ and ‘our home is our castle’... Source: Urban Cinefile  more