A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Sam Ellis, “This jet fighter is a disaster, but Congress keeps buying it” (Vox channel, 26 January 2017) Google the term “F-35” and among the suggestions…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 33: Meet Edward Bernays, Master of Propaganda)” (February 2008) It might be a bit dated, what with social media platforms…
Oscar Rudolph, “Batman (Season 2, Episodes 51 / 52: A Piece of the Action / Batman’s Satisfaction)” (1967) Even for the lightweight situation comedy / family show…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 332: The Weaponisation of Social Media)” (April 2018) A brisk, and at times even brusque, survey of how governments, the…
Andrei Zvyagintsev, “Loveless” (2017) As with previous films of Andrei Zvyagintsev that I’ve seen, “Loveless” is as much a criticism of modern Russian society and what…
Middle Eastern Films, North American Films
“The Jimmy Dore Show: Interview with Carla Ortiz” (23 April, 2018) A most unexpected surprise from what I would have considered the least likely medium surfaced…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Steven McGregor, “Servant or Slave” (2017) Few Australians have very little appreciation of the apartheid-style society that exploited Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islanders and even Melanesians…
Kaneto Shindo, “Kuroneko” (1968) A companion piece to his earlier classic “Onibaba”, Shindo’s “Kuroneko” explores vengeance and human desires for love in the setting of a…
“The Tsar and Empress: Secret Letters” (2017) A lavish two-part series revolving around the letters that Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and his…
German and German-language Films
F W Murnau, “Faust” (1926) Visually powerful and stunning, with an incredible opening scene of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding high in the sky,…