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.
Garrett Ryan, “Drug Use in Ancient Greece and Rome” (Told in Stone, 17 September 2021) An intriguing little video, this episode in Garrett Ryan’s ongoing Told…
Carlton Meyer, “The Empire’s 2021 Coup in Guinea” (Tales of the American Empire, 17 September 2021) This video serves as another short and succinct example of…
“The Jimmy Dore Show: Interview with Robert Malone” (15 September 2021) For much of this 75-minute interview with US virologist / immunologist Robert Malone, the usually…
Bao Nguyen, “Be Water” (2020) A stolid documentary, Bao Nguyen’s visual biography of global pop culture icon Bruce Lee is a conventional retelling of his life,…
“Living in the Golden Age of Fact-Checking” (ReallyGraceful, July 2020) In an age awash with global news / information media disinformation, coupled with the increasing denigration…
Garrett Ryan, “The Lost Greek Cities of Central Asia” (Told in Stone, 4 September 2021) In light of current events in Afghanistan, with the Taliban reasserting…
Carlton Meyer, “The Chaotic Fall of Kabul in 2021” (Tales of the American Empire, 20 August 2021) Using past and current news videos of the US…
Jack Felling “Karolyi” (NBC Sports, 2016) Here is a very slickly produced documentary made for the NBC television network as part of a series of sports…
Carlton Meyer, “The American Retreat from Vietnam” (Tales of the American Empire, 2020) In the wake of the American retreat from Afghanistan in August 2021, the…
Bess Krugman, Lucy Walker, “Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics (Episode 6: Building a World-Class Gymnastics Team)” (2020) The final installment in this fascinating…