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).
Derren Brown and Benjamin Caron, “Derren Brown – The Heist” (2006) Under the pretence of training a group of middle-level managers in a corporate workshop on…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – Apocalypse (Part 2)” (2012) Second and final part of a mini-series in which Brown conducts an experiment on…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – Apocalypse (Part 1)” (2012) A cleverly staged if at times daft and rather too cinematic experiment in which…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: The Secret of Luck” (2011) Now for his next trick … in this final episode of…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: The Guilt Trip” (2011) In this rather creepy episode, the third in a 4-part series, Derren…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: Gameshow” (2011) In Episode 2 of a 4-part psychology series, sceptic and mesmerist Derren Brown is…
British Films, North American Films
Christopher Nolan, “The Prestige” (2006) Rather fussy if good-looking film about duplicity and duplications, duelling and an all-consuming devotion to one’s art, “The Prestige” is a…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: The Assassin” (2011) An ingeniously planned experiment in hypnosis and mind control aimed at discovering whether…
Alicky Sussman, “A Secret History of Mind Control” (2010) I am quite a sucker for films on experimental psychology and mind manipulation experiments, especially if these…
Tom Long, “Assassin” (July 2009) / “Made Man” (September 2009) Found these student film shorts on Youtube and technically they are good for films made on…