Italian and Italian-language Films
At the Mountains of Madness: ambitious adaptation of the famous H P Lovecraft story of the Cthulhu mythos
Michele Botticelli, “At the Mountains of Madness” (2011) With the release of Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus”
Unearthed: a good-looking pastiche of different Hollywood movie story-lines and plot elements
Lindsay Harris and Stuart Leach, “Unearthed” (2011) On the edge of the known universe, a
German and German-language Films | North American Films
1945A / The Gift / R-Ha: three science fiction shorts that show creative and visionary promise
Ryan Nagata, “1945A” (2010) Carl Erik Rinsch, “The Gift” (2010) Kaleb Lechowski, “R-Ha” (2012) These
Australian and New Zealand Films
In the Footsteps of the Ancestors – Muslims Down Under: a mostly positive view of Australian Muslims and their history and cultures
Nada Roude, “In the Footsteps of the Ancestors – Muslims Down Under” (2009) A little
Australian and New Zealand Films
Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 3): mining as political power player highlighted by indigenous Australia’s fight for justice
Jacob Hickey, “Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 3)” (2012) Final and best episode
One Man Metal: brief survey of one-man black metal acts and their physical, psychological and social isolation
J Robinson (Noisey / VICE) “One Man Metal” (2012) An interesting if bare-bones three-part documentary,
The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 20: Night of the Vicious Valentine): fantasy, eccentricity and camp comedy in an original plot
Irving Moore, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 20: Night of the Vicious Valentine)”
Australian and New Zealand Films
Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 2): playing safe on mining and government in an eternal embrace
Jacob Hickey, “Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 2)” (2012) In this second episode
Hitchcock: offering banal fluff about Hitch’s marriage, ignoring complexities behind the making of “Psycho”
Sacha Gervasi, “Hitchcock” (2012) Fifty years after Alfred Hitchcock released his film “Psycho”, both director
The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 13: Night of the Skulls): an entertaining plot with surprises and running gags
Alan Crosland Jr, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 13: Night of the Skulls)”