A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Reviews of films made in Canada and United States including all films made by Hollywood.
Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? (Academy of Ideas, 27 February 2021) Academy of Ideas is a Canadian-based website that explores and explains…
Frank Capra, “Rendezvous in Space” (1964) A promotional industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Corporation – a precursor of Lockheed Martin – this curious documentary,…
Garrett Ryan, “Public Latrines in Ancient Rome” (Toldinstone, 15 December 2021) In the space of seven minutes (as twenty seconds are devoted to the mention of…
Carlton Meyer, “The Disastrous Liberation of the Philippines” (Tales of the American Empire, 10 December 2021) In this short documentary, military historian Carlton Meyer makes his…
Dr Garrett Ryan, “How a Fish Bankrupted the Roman Aristocracy” (Told In Stone, 27 November 2021) In this instalment in his Told In Stones series which…
Dr Garrett Ryan, “A Murder Mystery in Roman Egypt” (Told In Stone, 24 November 2021) This entertaining little documentary is actually less a whodunnit tale and…
Carlton Meyer, “The 1964 Coup in Brazil” (Tales of the American Empire, 12 November 2021) This instalment in Meyer’s ongoing series investigating the long history of…
Dr Garrett Ryan, “Vampires in Greek Myth” (Told In Stone, 30 October 2021) Casting our fears regarding death and women who might be less than ideal…
British Films, North American Films
Michael Apted, “The World Is Not Enough” (1999) Sent to protect a wealthy oil heiress after her father is killed by explosives in money delivered to…
British Films, North American Films
Roger Spottiswoode, “Tomorrow Never Dies” (1997) The second of four films that Irish actor Pierce Brosnan starred in as British wonder spy James Bond for EON…