A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Alan Crosland Jr, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 13: Night of the Skulls)” (1966) A really surprising episode this turns out to be, with…
Richard C Sarafian, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 1, Episode 1: The Night of the Inferno)” (1965) With the Civil War over and the period of…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Jacob Hickey, “Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 1)” (2012) If this first episode is typical of the three-part series, this documentary should be quite…
Robert Sparr, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 17: Night of the Feathered Fury)” (1967) In this episode, the two US government agents Jim West…
Michael J Murphy, “Why in the World are They Spraying?” (2012) This film brings together evidence from aerospace engineers, meteorologists, TV weather reports, ranchers, farmers, ecologists,…
Michael Caffey, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 3, Episode 2: Night of the Firebrand)” (1967) In this episode, government agents Jim West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus…
Hi all, Those last 12 months have passed so quickly and now I face the task of deciding which were the best films I’ve seen in…
Ron Fricke, “Samsara” (2011) Fourth in a series of wordless visual documentaries by Ron Fricke (the previous films being “Chronos”, “Sacred Sites” and “Baraka”), “Samsara” is…
Robert Day, “The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 10: Never, Never Say Die)” (1967) Now this is the episode that should have been the Return of the…
Robert Asher, “The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 23: Murdersville)” (1967) Major Paul Croft (Eric Flynn) has retired from the army and bought a mansion on the…