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.
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
Newsbud Spotlight with Sibel and Spiro (12 August 2016): WikiLeaks, Hillary-Gulen Intimate Ties & How Clintons Gave Birth to Mullah Gulen’s Terrorist Network In the wake…
Alfred Hitchcock, “Dial M for Murder” (1953) A clever and witty murder mystery with fine acting and sparkling dialogue, “Dial M for Murder” is a highly…
Sam Lim and Bruce Timm, “Batman: the Killing Joke” (2016) That “Batman: the Killing Joke” has lasted nearly 30 years as a milestone in the history…
Alfred Hitchcock, “Under Capricorn” (1949) Set in the early days of the British colony of Sydney in Australia, “Under Capricorn” turns out to be an intense…
Matt the White Rabbit, “AntiRacist Hitler” (2013) A subversive animation short satirising open-borders immigration policies and multiculturalist agendas in Western countries, most of which also hypocritically…
Dony Permedi, “Pony” (2006) “Pony” is a short animated film made by Permedi as an undergraduate college project with the subversions of everyday life and student…
Martin Scorsese, “New York, New York” (1977) One of Martin Scorsese’s most under-rated films, in my opinion, and in many ways an experimental and even surreal…
Charlie Chaplin, “Modern Times” (1936) In its own way, “Modern Times” is significant as an example of how one actor / director adapted his style from…
Todd Browning, “Freaks” (1932) A unique cult film of the kind that can be said to be the only film of its genre – outsider film,…
British Films, North American Films
Nicholas Roeg, “The Man Who Fell to Earth” (1976) For a film with hardly much plot and maybe too much soft-core pornography, “The Man who Fell…