A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Farhad Safinia (P B Shemran), “The Professor and the Madman” (2019) Adapted from the novel “The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the…
Bhargav Saikia, “Awakenings” (2015) Inspired by and closely based on Henry James’ famous novella “The Turn of the Screw”, this short film is conventional in its…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Dagogo Altraide, “WeWork – The $47 Billion Disaster” (ColdFusion,2019) Some workers probably wish their employers would make their working lives fun for them by sending them…
Tiago Teixeira, “Wrong Number” (2018) An odd little film with just two characters, “Wrong Number” is a study of anxiety and the tension that come from…
Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian, “The Stylist” (2016) Never did a psychotic serial killer look more fragile or seem so worthy of our compassion and sympathy as Claire…
Charles A Pieper, “Malacostraca” (2018) Playing like a conventional creature-feature horror flick with all the inconsistencies the genre often attracts – how on earth does the…
James Kwon Lee, “Locksmiths” (2015) Behind the laconic, even mundane title is a surprisingly taut and unbearably suspenseful story with a heartbreaking climax in which two…
“Redacted Tonight (Season 4, Episode #271)” (RT America, 14 December 2019) In this episode, Redacted Tonight host Lee Camp runs through several stories picked up by…
Seung Yeob Lee, “Thicker Than Water” (2015) Modern South Korean families, in particular the relationship of mothers with their sons and the extremes the mothers will…
British Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Graham Phillips, “Vladivostok 2020” (2020) In this 20-minute showcase of the glories of Vladivostok, the famed Pacific Ocean gateway to Russia, investigative British journalist Graham Phillips…