A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Reviews of films from the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales).
Aaron Bastani, Gary McQuiggin, “The Coup in Venezuela, Explained” (Novara Media, 2019) Here comes a very timely report on the recent history of Venezuela’s politics and…
British Films, Multi-media Presentations
Ben Griffin, “The Making of a Modern British Soldier” (Veterans for Peace UK, October 2015) All you see in this video uploaded to Youtube is a…
Clayton Swisher, “The Lobby (Episode 4: The Takedown)” (Al Jazeera, 2017) In the last episode of Qatar TV station Al Jazeera’s series on Israeli infiltration of…
Clayton Swisher, “The Lobby (Episode 3: An Anti-Semite Trope)” (Al Jazeera, 2017) In this third episode of the four-part series focusing on the Israeli government’s infiltration…
Clayton Swisher, “The Lobby (Episode 2: The Training Session)” (Al Jazeera, 2017) Continuing on from Episode 1 “Young Friends of Israel”, in this episode Al Jazeera’s undercover…
Clayton Swisher, “The Lobby (Episode 1: Young Friends of Israel)” (Al Jazeera, 2017) In recent years, a movement known as the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement…
Robin Hardy “The Wicker Man” (1973) In spite of a small budget and the set-backs it suffered during filming and the post-production process, this short movie…
British Films, North American Films
Sidney Lumet, “Equus” (1977) He never won an individual Academy Award for Best Movie or Best Director but surely Sidney Lumet is one of the greatest…
Michael Oswald, “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire” (2017) A very important and necessary documentary, in light of ongoing financial crises in many countries, supposedly necessitating…
Guy Hamilton, “Evil under the Sun” (1981) Even when he’s holidaying in an apparently perfect little Mediterranean paradise where the sky is always celestial blue and…