A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
“Redacted Tonight (Season 4, Episode #271)” (RT America, 14 December 2019) In this episode, Redacted Tonight host Lee Camp runs through several stories picked up by…
Nicholas Tucker, “Corrections” (2017) A tale of obsession and extreme control in a future dystopian society, this short film is completely character and dialogue-driven, revolving around…
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…
Constance Tsang, “Carnivore” (2018) Elegant in style and minimalist and understated in its narrative, this is a very wry satire on the culture of the cut-throat…
Andre LeBlanc, “They Watch” (2016) In the near future, a mother and her teenage son living in small-town America are under siege from an oppressive police-state…
Nicholas Camp, Don Thiel III, “Orbit” (2019) A clever re-telling of the classic Edgar Allan Poe short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, this short film explores the…
Andrew Hunt, “Clean Cut” (2015) From DUST, an online channel specialising in screening science fiction films made by up-and-coming film-makers comes this very amusing and cheeky…
Victor Alonso-Berbel, “Perfectly Natural” (2018) No aliens, monsters, paranormal events or denizens of Hell or the 25th dimension abound here but this 12-minute short is as…
Harold M Shaw, “The Land Beyond the Sunset” (1912) Made in 1912 – the same year in which the Titanic set sail for its fateful meeting…
Latin American Films (Spanish language), North American Films
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, “The Grayzone meets Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro” (The Grayzone Project, August 2019) Filmed by fellow Grayzone journalist colleague Ben Norton, Max…