Clones: short sci-fi sketch on the nature of identity
Rafael Bolliger, “Clones” (2015) In amongst a busy schedule making films, TV films and TV series, and lending his voice to videogames, Dutch actor Rutger Hauer…
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Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Why North Korea Starves: a detailed video of North Korea’s food self-sufficiency quest omits how US hostility distorts that aim
“Why North Korea Starves” (Asianometry, 10 January 2022) While accurate information about North Korea is difficult to obtain, due to its government’s secrecy, this Asianometry mini-documentary…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
South Korea’s Cram School Obsession: a survey of education and how it came to be in South Korea
“South Korea’s Cram School Obsession” (Asianometry, 4 July 2022) What initially started out as an investigation into South Korean families’ mania for after-school private tutoring for…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Why South Korea’s Seniors Are So Poor: a problem with many causes but few solutions
“Why South Korea’s Seniors Are So Poor” (Asianometry, 19 April 2022) The statistics – and this mini-documentary is full of them! – are alarming: the relative…
House of Maxwell (Episode 3): vague and confused end to a dishonest series
Daniel Vernon, “House of Maxwell (Episode 3)” (2022) Finally we reach the third and last episode of this sorry series supposedly investigating the scandals surrounding past…
House of Maxwell (Episode 2): pension fund scandal not treated with the importance deserved
Daniel Vernon, “House of Maxwell (Episode 2)” (2022) As with the opening episode of this three-part documentary series on the scandals surrounding Robert Maxwell and his…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
China’s Massive Nearsightedness Problem: an insightful survey of how China is dealing with childhood and adolescent myopia
“China’s Massive Nearsightedness Problem” (Asianometry, 20 June 2022) With about 57% of its population in 2019 being myopic (short-sighted), and with schoolchildren in urban areas being…
Why didn’t the Romans conquer Scotland? – a lively investigation of imperial Roman limits
Dr Garrett Ryan, “Why didn’t the Romans conquer Scotland?” (Toldinstone, 18 June 2022) Generations of British and other schoolchildren studying Roman history must have wondered why…
House of Maxwell (Episode 1): a bad start to a series on Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes
Daniel Vernon, “House of Maxwell (Episode 1)” (2022) First in a three-part series purporting to examine and connect the scandals surrounding British newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
The Dinosaur Birds of China: how fossils in Liaoning province finally put a controversy to rest
“The Dinosaur Birds of China” (Asianometry, 5 November 2021) In a most unexpected departure from the usual economics or IT topics covered, the Asianometry channel devoted…