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.
Alison Severs / Vice, “Krokodil: Siberia’s Tears” (2011) I stumbled across short video clips made by a documentary channel Vice News which specialises in a form…
Stanley Kubrick, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb” (1964) Notable as the film that features British actor Peter Sellers…
Rob Balsamo, “9/11 Intercepted” (2011) Over a decade has passed since the World Trade Center attacks occurred and we are still no closer to knowing what…
David Cronenberg, “Cosmopolis” (2012) A profound and thoughtful film on the nature of the corporate fascist mind-set, “Cosmopolis” is a quasi-cyberpunk road movie across New York…
Robert Breer,”Fuji” (1974) An interesting short of a train trip taken through the Japanese countryside with Mount Fuji dominating the rice-fields and towns along the way,…
Robert Breer, “A Man and a Dog Out For Air” (1957) Why have I never heard of this wonderful animator before? This very short animation piece…
Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012) Eight years after the events of “The Dark Knight”, Gotham City enjoys peace thanks to the Dent Act, named…
Middle Eastern Films, North American Films
Marcio E Gonçalves, “Rendering Lisa” (2010) Mehmet Can Koçak, “Perspective” (2011) Jesus Orellana, “Rosa” (2011) A homage to cyberpunk sci-fi writers William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and…
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
David Blair, “Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees” (1991) One of my favourite science fiction films since I first saw it in the…
Mike Sheerin, “Changing Your Mind (The Nature of Things)” (2010) Hosted by David Suzuki, “Changing Your Mind” is an episode from the long-running science documentary “The…