What the Heck is a Bail-Out? – a very brief, simplified exposition of how debt-based financial systems lead to collapse and ruin
Paul Grignon, “What the Heck is a Bail-Out?” Part of a body of work investigating
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
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,
Code of samurai honour and Japan under Tokugawa shoguns under superficial examination in “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai”
Takashi Miike, “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai” (2011) As this is a Takashi Miike film,
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Confession of Pain: glossy tale of vengeance long-planned with an implausible plot
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, “Confession of Pain” (2006) Ain’t no bad time like Chinese
Obey: important message about 21st century corporate fascism is obscured by fast narrative, tricky visual imagery and annoying music
Temujin Doran, “Obey” (2012) Initially this documentary promised to be an inquiry into the rise
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
French and French-language Films
Augustine: period drama struggles under weighty issues of psychology, women’s sexuality and misogyny
Alice Winocour, “Augustine” (2012) In the early years of the twentieth century in France, the
Sun, Sea & Satan: highly impassioned and uncompromising film exposing child abuse, political corruption and an unhealthy society
Bill Maloney, “Sun, Sea & Satan” (2008) A highly impassioned film on child abuse in