A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, “Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives” (2010) The last days of a farmer dying from kidney disease on his farm in a…
Ernie Gilbert, “Nine Minutes” (2017) What if you suddenly discovered that you only had nine minutes left to live? How would you spend that time? This…
French and French-language Films
Jules Janaud and Fabrice le Nezet, “Animal” (2017) In the not too distant future, in a post-industrial world, communities living on the margins of society will…
Dennis Liu, “Plurality” (2012) A competent little short that looks very much like a proof-of-concept work for a longer feature film, “Plurality” plays like a conventional…
British Films, North American Films
Keith and David Lynch, “Zero” (2019) In a post-apocalyptic world, when robots and humans have fought each other almost to the death in a long drawn-out…
John Humber, “Jameson” (2018) A man living an apparently secluded life off the grid in a cabin he built himself in the middle of a deep…
Keith Adams, “ChromoPHOBIA” (2019) Based on a short story by B Evenson, this dark horror fiction short focuses on mental illness and its treatment, and unconscious…
Vladimir Putin’s Presidential Speech to the Russian Federal Assembly (15 January 2020) Under Article 84 of the Russian Constitution, the Russian President is required to give…
Jay Roach, “Bombshell” (2019) The plot is very basic enough: a female television personality employee at Fox News is sacked by the big boss for questionable…
Chloe Okuno, “Slut” (2014) Set in the 1970s, this cheesy morality tale is a meeting of Little Red Riding Hood and Southern US small-town Gothica in…