A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
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…
Carlton Meyer, “King Woodrow’s Wilsonian Armenia” (Tales of the American Empire, 29 April 2022) Among the many follies of past US President Woodrow Wilson (who served…
Jason Sheedy, “Checkpoint” (2021) Here comes a 10-minute number that initially looks like a virtual reality game being played by several avatars of the same player…
Latin American Films (Spanish language), North American Films
Fernando Campos and Jaime Jasso, “El Camino” (2020) A well made and visually gorgeous film, “El Camino” happens to be the culmination of five years of…
Matt Westrup, “The Gate” (2011) Deriving its title from a couple of lines in the seventh chapter in the Book of Matthew in the Bible (“……
Essays, Multi-media Presentations
Gonzalo Lira, “A Recap of the War in Ukraine” (Twitter, 26 April 2022) For those people confused by the sudden invasion of Russian forces into Ukraine…
Garrett Ryan, “Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and the Greek Myths” (Toldinstone, 21 August 2021) Part of a collaboration with NORTH 02, a YouTube channel dedicated to palaeontology and…
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022) True to its title, this wacky science fiction / fantasy / philosophy film dips into…
Graham Phillips, “Exclusive Interview – Aiden Aslin – British Man Fighting for Ukraine, Captured in Donbass, Mariupol” (19 April 2022) Early in the Russian intervention in…
Aaron Maté, “U.S., EU sacrificing Ukraine to ‘weaken Russia’: fmr. NATO adviser” (The Grayzone Project, 15 April 2022) Here is an excellent interview by US journalist…