A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Garrett Ryan, “Were the Romans Close to an Industrial Revolution? (Part 2)” (Toldinstone, 5 March 2022) You guessed it … after the first video in which…
Garrett Ryan, “Were the Romans Close to an Industrial Revolution? (Part 1)” (Toldinstone, 26 February 2022) This video and its second part could have been combined…
Garrett Ryan, “How Warm was the Roman Climate?” (Toldinstone, 23 February 2022) In this instalment in his Toldinstone series on Youtube, Dr Garrett Ryan surveys evidence…
Carlton Meyer, “The Chinese defeated the US Army in 1950” (Tales of the American Empire, 18 February 2022) Compared to his other short history documentary videos…
Garrett Ryan, “Were Roman Roads more Durable than Modern Highways?” (Toldinstone, 5 February 2022) Here’s another entertaining and informative episode in the ongoing history documentary series…
Carlton Meyer, “Panama Ransacked in 1989” (Tales of the American Empire, 4 February 2022) A very informative video, this instalment in Carlton Meyer’s Tales of the…
Aidan Michael Brezonick, “Alien: Night Shift” (2019; extended version 2020) Not one of the better films out of the batch of six made in 2019 to…
Benjamin Howdeshell, “Alien: Harvest” (2019) It had stunning CGI visuals, a scary setting in a failing spaceship, a willing cast and a lot of tension ……
Kelsey Taylor, “Alien: Specimen” (2019)A suspenseful little short, more haunted-house horror than sci-fi, “… Specimen” gets points from me for using its setting, cinematography and especially…
Chris Reading, “Alien: Containment” (2019) For me, this nine-minute work was a rushed piece that crammed perhaps too many references to Ridley Scott’s original “Alien” and…