A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Paul Cockshott, “On the Need for a Programme (A Communist Manifesto: The Classic for Today)” (25 June 2021) In response to a request, UK computer scientist…
James Bailey, “Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of The Third Reich” (2017) A grim and horrifying film, all the more so for its clinical, matter-of-fact tone…
Paul Cockshott, “AUKUS and the danger of war” (23 September 2021) After a Twitter exchange on whether the US was in a fit state militarily to…
Nick Gillan-Smith, “737 MAX: Ten Mistakes” (2021) A crisp and succinct documentary, going into just enough detail (but not too much so) to satisfy the general…
Garrett Ryan, “Drug Use in Ancient Greece and Rome” (Told in Stone, 17 September 2021) An intriguing little video, this episode in Garrett Ryan’s ongoing Told…
Carlton Meyer, “The Empire’s 2021 Coup in Guinea” (Tales of the American Empire, 17 September 2021) This video serves as another short and succinct example of…
“The Jimmy Dore Show: Interview with Robert Malone” (15 September 2021) For much of this 75-minute interview with US virologist / immunologist Robert Malone, the usually…
Bao Nguyen, “Be Water” (2020) A stolid documentary, Bao Nguyen’s visual biography of global pop culture icon Bruce Lee is a conventional retelling of his life,…
“Living in the Golden Age of Fact-Checking” (ReallyGraceful, July 2020) In an age awash with global news / information media disinformation, coupled with the increasing denigration…
Garrett Ryan, “The Lost Greek Cities of Central Asia” (Told in Stone, 4 September 2021) In light of current events in Afghanistan, with the Taliban reasserting…