Money as Debt: global finance and banks explained in easy-going and colourful documentary
Paul Grignon, “Money as Debt” (2006) While looking for something else on Youtube.com, I found
Category: North American Films
Reviews of films made in Canada and United States including all films made by Hollywood.
Overdoing the satire and toilet humour in “Team America: World Police”
Trey Parker, “Team America: World Police” (2004) A silly and puerile satire on American society,
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – depravity, denial and abuse of power in Catholic paedophilia scandal
Alex Gibney, “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God” (2012) No matter what
Cabaret: fine performances undermined by weak plot and underdeveloped themes
Bob Fosse, “Cabaret” (1972) Loosely based on a Broadway play and a 1950s film which
More to tiny houses than size in “Beyond Curb Appeal: Jay Shafer and the Politics of Tiny Houses”
George Packard, “Beyond Curb Appeal: Jay Shafer and the Politics of Tiny Houses” (2011) While
Casablanca: redemption is found in romantic war drama set in a sea of spies, intrigue, deception, rebels and fugitives
Michael Curtiz, “Casablanca” (1942) One of Hollywood’s finest gems, “Casablanca” initially presents as a romantic
The Day the Earth stood Still: strong and relevant theme and message still important to modern audiences
Robert Wise, “The Day the Earth stood Still” (1951) Yesterday a meteor and its debris
Matrix Revolutions: beneath pyrotechnics and stylistic posturing, a really very ordinary film stuck in a Hollywood matrix
Andy and Larry Wachowski, “Matrix Revolutions” (2003) Beneath layers of computer-generated pyrotechnics, film noir homage
Remote Control War: technical detail substitutes for a proper inquiry into the ethics of using drones and robots in conflicts
Leif Kaldor, “Remote Control War” (2011) “Remote Control War” presents as a sober documentary on
Zero Dark Thirty: a journey into a heart of darkness … in its “heroine”
Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) This film purports to document the hunt for World