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).
Diene Petterle, “How to Kill a Human Being” (2008) A rather curious BBC Horizon documentary this is, with former British Conservative politician Michael Portillo as guide,…
Alfred Hitchcock, “The Ring” (1927) An early triumph for the young Alfred Hitchcock, released in the same year as his better known “The Lodger: A Story…
Nigel Paterson, “The Ghost in Your Genes” An excellent BBC Horizon documentary, “The Ghost in Your Genes” is an investigation into a new area of genetics…
Alfred Hitchcock, “The Manxman” (1929) Last of Alfred Hitchcock’s true silent films, “The Manxman” is already straining at the limitations of the silent-film mode with its…
Emma Sutton, “Why are Thin People Not Fat” (2008) This BBC Horizon documentary revolves around an experiment in deliberately overfeeding a group of people for a…
Phil Grabsky, “The Surprising History of Egypt with Terry Jones” (2002) An entertaining trip into the lives and customs of every-day people of ancient Egypt, with…
Terry Jones, “Terry Jones’ Barbarians (Episode 1: The Primitive Celts)” (2006) This droll history lesson delivered by former Monty Python member Terry Jones examines the complicated…
Louise Wardle, “Human, All Too Human (Episode 3: Jean-Paul Sartre)” (1999) The final episode in this 3-part BBC series on existential philosophy focusses on the daddy…
Jeff Morgan, “Human, All too Human (Episode 2: Martin Heidegger)” (1999) Second in the three-part BBC series on “existential” philosophers, this episode concentrates more on Martin…
Simon Chu, “Human, All too Human (Episode 1: Friedrich Nietzsche)” (1999) This is the first of a three-part BBC series made in 1999 about three significant…