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.
Amy Winfrey, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 6: Adam Ruins What We Learned In School)” (2017) In this completely animated episode, Adam Conover joins a…
“What the Media Won’t Tell You About North Korea” (ReallyGraceful, 2017) ReallyGraceful is quickly becoming a useful source of alternative information on topics the Western mainstream…
“How Haiti Became the Epicenter of Crime Through Exploitation of Death and Destruction” (ReallyGraceful, 1 April 2017) Here’s a quick lesson on how Haiti came to…
Paul Briganti, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 7: Adam Ruins College)” (2017) Aiming squarely at its target audience of US high school students and undergrads,…
Matthew Pollock, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 5: Adam Ruins Art)” (2017) In this episode, Adam swipes the world of fine art, art galleries and…
Tim Wilkime, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 3: Adam Ruins the Hospital)” (2017) Hosted by eponymous comedian and writer Adam Conover, “Adam Ruins Everything” is…
There’s a climactic scene in Dunkirk (Warner Bros, 2017) where some of the exhausted British soldiers are pulling in to station on a train. Suddenly one…
David Leitch, “Atomic Blonde” (2017) I confess I had very low expectations of this spy action thriller film. I was pleasantly surprised that the acting was…
Terry George, “The Promise” (2016) A film about the Ottoman Turkish genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities (1915 – 1918) is probably never going to…
Alex Kurtzman, “The Mummy” (2017) Somewhere in this hokey action blockbuster film is a story about flawed humans acting for purely selfish reasons and the consequences…