A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Hubert Wala, “Strategic Flows, by Jacek Bartosiak” (Strategy & Future, 11 January 2021) Strategy & Future is a Polish thinktank founded by lawyer / speaker /…
Billy Wilder, “Some Like It Hot” (1959) Astonishingly this classic Hollywood slapstick comedy still holds up well more than 60 years after its release. The jokes…
Nino Aldi, “Tribes” (2020) In societies obsessed with categorising people on the basis of arbitrary and artificial criteria such as race and gender self-identity, this short…
Dear USE readers and visitors, Funnily I had anticipated at the beginning of 2020 that I probably wouldn’t see as many films in 2020 as I…
Glen MacKay, “Life in the Day of Aliya Mustafina” (2020) Since 2009 when she joined the Russian senior national women’s gymnastics team, Aliya Mustafina has become…
British Films, Multi-media Presentations
Alan Cox, Heathcote Williams, “The Red Dagger” (2013?) Presented in six parts on Youtube, British actor / poet Heathcote Williams’ poem essay “The Red Dagger”, a…
Carlton Meyer, “The Colonization of Haiti in 1915” (Tales of the American Empire, 11 December 2020) In this short video, running just under 12 minutes, TotAE…
“Ask The Experts (Covid-19 Vaccine)” (Oracle Films, 7 December 2020) Banned on Facebook and Youtube, this film features over thirty doctors plus a nurse, a pharmacist,…
French and French-language Films
Edouard Bergeon, “In the Name of the Land / Au Nom de la Terre” (2020) A deeply personal family drama, based on his own experiences growing…
Australian and New Zealand Films, Multi-media Presentations
Glen Isherwood, “Magnitsky Acts are dangerous laws based on a hoax – Interview with Lucy Komisar” (Citizens Insight / Australian Citizens Party, 28 October 2020) In…