A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff, “Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land” (2003) This is a highly informative documentary on the role that the US media plays…
Adam Curtis, “It Felt Like A Kiss” (2009) A quirky visual montage of old newsreels and Hollywood films that documents a culturally transitional age in American…
Dear USE visitors, It’s 2012 already! Those of you who followed the films I saw in 2011 are truly to be congratulated on your patience and interest!…
Aaron Franz, “The Age of Transitions” (2008) Interesting documentaries about power and control of human societies seem to be falling into my lap like there are…
Adam Curtis, “The Trap – What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (Episode 3: We will Force You to be Free)” (2007) Part of Adam Curtis’s “The Trap…
Adam Curtis, “The Living Dead (Episode 3: The Attic)” (1995) Having seen the mishmash that was “The Iron Lady”, I figured it was high time I…
Phyllida Lloyd, “The Iron Lady” (2011) I steeled myself to watch this film; I had seen the trailer and it had filled me with fear. Donning…
Pedro Almodóvar, “The Skin I Live In / La Piel Que Habito” (2011) Georges Franju’s sci-fi horror classic “Eyes without a Face” was overdue for a remake…
Hayao Miyazaki, “Howl’s Moving Castle” (2005) Up to and including “Spirited Away”, the animated films by Studio Ghibli are of a high standard both technically and…
Lars von Trier, “Melancholia” (2011) Fed up with the deadbeat rate of intellectual and cultural evolution that the human species was demonstrating on planet Earth, the…