A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Frank Morrow / Alternative Views, Gulf War documentary (1990s?) Found an interesting documentary on the Gulf War which delves into the history of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: The Assassin” (2011) An ingeniously planned experiment in hypnosis and mind control aimed at discovering whether…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Robert Connolly, “Underground: the Julian Assange Story” (2012) Fictionalised dramatisation of an episode in the early life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as a teenage computer…
Alicky Sussman, “A Secret History of Mind Control” (2010) I am quite a sucker for films on experimental psychology and mind manipulation experiments, especially if these…
“Tea and Conversation with David Lyons: Green Tea” at The Tea Centre, Sydney, 22 September 2012 I drink enough of the stuff so it’s only fair…
Martin Scorsese, “American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince” (1978) After making his break-through films “Mean Streets”, “Taxi Driver” and “New York, New York”, Martin Scorsese…
Tom Long, “Assassin” (July 2009) / “Made Man” (September 2009) Found these student film shorts on Youtube and technically they are good for films made on…
Martin Scorsese, “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” (1963) Martin Scorsese, “The Big Shave” (1967) Two hilarious short films from Martin…
Olly Bootle, “Are We Still Evolving?” (2011) UK anthropologist Alice Roberts presents this BBC Horizon documentary investigating whether humans have stopped evolving as a result of…
Martin Scorsese, “It’s Not Just You, Murray!” (1964) Made by Scorsese as a film student at New York University under the tutelage of Haig Manoogian, this…