A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Toshiya Fujita, “Lady Snowblood / Shurayukihime” (1973) Based on a manga and the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” homage to old 1970s Asian martial arts…
“Warren Mosler: What Modern Monetary Theory tells Us about Economic Policy” (Institute for New Economic Thinking, July 2013) This interview focussing on Warren Mosler’s explanation of…
“An Evening with Vladimir Soloviev – Dmitri Rogozin Interview” (Rossia 1, 2014) A very grateful thank you to The Vineyard of the Saker blog for uploading…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. “What We Do in the Shadows” (2014) Just when you think that everything that can be done in the horror film…
British Films, Multi-media Presentations
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp / Business For Scotland, “5 Biggest No Campaign Economics Scare Stories Debunked” (September 2014) At this time of writing, there remain just a few…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Michael and Peter Spierig, “Predestination” (2014) Based on a short story by Robert Heinlein (“All You Zomvies” which features no zombies, disappointingly enough), “Predestination” is an…
“Formation of a State” (NovorossiyaTV.com, 24 August 2014) After capturing a group of neo-Nazi fascists fighting for the Poroshenko regime in Ukraine, the self-proclaimed Donetsk National…
Dutch Merrick, “Detroit Water Crisis: A Prelude to the Privatization of Water” (Acronym TV, 21 August 2014) For a major part of the 20th century, the…
(This is an original version of the article “From Bread Basket to Basket Case: A Survey of the Ukraine’s Economy” that appears on The Kremlin Stooge…
Henry Koster, “Harvey” (1950) This film about a middle-aged bachelor whose only friend and companion happens to be an invisible giant bunny rabbit could have ended…