A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Michael J Murphy, “Why in the World are They Spraying?” (2012) This film brings together evidence from aerospace engineers, meteorologists, TV weather reports, ranchers, farmers, ecologists,…
Michael Caffey, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 3, Episode 2: Night of the Firebrand)” (1967) In this episode, government agents Jim West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus…
Hi all, Those last 12 months have passed so quickly and now I face the task of deciding which were the best films I’ve seen in…
Ron Fricke, “Samsara” (2011) Fourth in a series of wordless visual documentaries by Ron Fricke (the previous films being “Chronos”, “Sacred Sites” and “Baraka”), “Samsara” is…
Robert Day, “The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 10: Never, Never Say Die)” (1967) Now this is the episode that should have been the Return of the…
Robert Asher, “The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 23: Murdersville)” (1967) Major Paul Croft (Eric Flynn) has retired from the army and bought a mansion on the…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Andrew Lau Wai-keung, “The Guillotines” (2012) An overly fussy and long-winded film on brotherhood and loyalty, and how changes beyond a society’s control affect individual people…
German and German-language Films, Spanish Films
?, “The Diadem” (1966) Wolfgang von Chmielewski, “MiniKillers” (1969) Two curious short films from Germany and Spain respectively, both feature the English actor Diana Rigg in…
Herman Axelbank and Max Eastman, “Tsar to Lenin” (1937) Presented by Mehring Books and the Socialist Equality Party, “Tsar to Lenin” is an incredible historical document…
Sidney Havers, “The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 20: Dead Man’s Treasure)” (1967) A courier, mortally wounded, just manages to stumble into Steed’s home and mutter to…