A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Reviews of films from Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and countries that used to be the old Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia).
Eastern European Films, French and French-language Films
Jerzy Skolimowski, “EO” (2022) Inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film “Au hasard Balthazar”, this Polish film follows the adventures of circus donkey EO after the circus…
Gonzalo Lira, “Ukraine and the Gell Mann Effect” (13 May 2022) In this video, Chilean-American vlogger Gonzalo Lira discusses the so-called Gell Mann effect in relation…
Gonzalo Lira, “Australia is The Next Ukraine” (10 May 2022) In this video, Chilean-American vlogger Gonzalo Lira explains how Australia is being manipulated by the United…
Gonzalo Lira, “Poland Will Take a Bite out of Ukraine” (8 May 2022) One little-known piece of news coming out of Russia’s current Special Military Operation…
British Films, Eastern European Films
Graham Phillips, “Europe’s Unknown Death Camp – Jasenovac – Croatia – WWII” (22 April 2021) I had not known of the infamous World War II concentration…
Hubert Wala, “Strategic Flows, by Jacek Bartosiak” (Strategy & Future, 11 January 2021) Strategy & Future is a Polish thinktank founded by lawyer / speaker /…
Jan Komasa, “Corpus Christi” (2019) For some odd reason, Poland has many fake Roman Catholic priests, many of whom must be doing a good job, and…
Eastern European Films, North American Films
Carlton Meyer, “The 2014 American Coup in Ukraine” (Tales of the American Empire, 21 August 2020) A very timely release in Carlton Meyer’s Tales of the…
British Films, Eastern European Films
“Abandoned Soviet Fairground Ride in Transnistria” (Bald and Bankrupt, 2019) During his travels in Moldova in early 2019, the English vlogger known as Bald and Bankrupt…
British Films, Eastern European Films
“Abandoned Europe / Road to Ratus” (Bald and Bankrupt, April 2019) “Could be awesome, could be shit” … well, going to Ratus couldn’t be any worse…