A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Korean Films, North American Films
Carlton Meyer, “The Mythical North Korean Threat” (Tales of the American Empire, 26 June 2020) Amazingly in this admittedly short (eight-minute) video there’s no mention of…
Carlton Meyer, “Football Star Murdered in Afghanistan” (Tales of the American Empire, 9 April 2020) With the passage of time, former NRL football player turned soldier…
Carlton Meyer, “American Bungling Destroyed Pan Am 103” (Tales of the American Empire, May 2020) To understand the rush of information in this short video about…
North African Films, North American Films
Carlton Meyer, “The Destruction of Libya in 2011” (Tales of the American Empire, May 2020) A very good general survey of how the US overthrew Colonel…
Middle Eastern Films, North American Films
Carlton Meyer, “The Conquest of the Republic of Georgia in 2003” (Tales of the American Empire, May 2020) One of a series of films by former…
East African Films, North African Films
Carlton Meyer, “The American Empire Invades Africa” (Tales of the American Empire, 11 June 2020) Former US Marine Corps member Carlton Meyer recently created a series…
Carroll Brown, “Control” (2019) Filmed on a tiny budget, this science fiction horror short is an intense character study detailing the effects of long isolation in…
Jill “Sixx” Gevargizian, “The Stylist” (2016) Never did a psychotic serial killer look more fragile or seem so worthy of our compassion and sympathy as Claire…
Charles A Pieper, “Malacostraca” (2018) Playing like a conventional creature-feature horror flick with all the inconsistencies the genre often attracts – how on earth does the…
James Kwon Lee, “Locksmiths” (2015) Behind the laconic, even mundane title is a surprisingly taut and unbearably suspenseful story with a heartbreaking climax in which two…