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.
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 33: Meet Edward Bernays, Master of Propaganda)” (February 2008) It might be a bit dated, what with social media platforms…
Oscar Rudolph, “Batman (Season 2, Episodes 51 / 52: A Piece of the Action / Batman’s Satisfaction)” (1967) Even for the lightweight situation comedy / family show…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 332: The Weaponisation of Social Media)” (April 2018) A brisk, and at times even brusque, survey of how governments, the…
Middle Eastern Films, North American Films
“The Jimmy Dore Show: Interview with Carla Ortiz” (23 April, 2018) A most unexpected surprise from what I would have considered the least likely medium surfaced…
Harvey Cashore, “Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada” (The Fifth Estate, December 2017) As The Fifth Estate’s website post on this documentary says, the scenario…
Ronna Syed, “A Tale of Two Traitors” (Fifth Estate, March 2018) In the wake of the recent incident in the UK concerning a suspected poisoning of…
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice” (2014) Director Paul Thomas Anderson must be commended for daring to tackle a Thomas Pynchon novel and managing to be faithful…
Sam Liu, “Batman and Harley Quinn” (2017) Teaming Batman and Nightwing together with The Joker’s on-off girlfriend Harley Quinn might have seemed a good idea at…
British Films, North American Films
Paul Thomas Anderson, “The Phantom Thread” (2017) If viewed as a comedy romance about a successful narcissist couturier who aspires to be part of the upper…
Robert Wise, “The Andromeda Strain” (1971) Although made over 45 years ago, this science fiction film about a team of scientists battling to identify and contain…