A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Paul Grignon, “What the Heck is a Bail-Out?” Part of a body of work investigating the role of money in modern society and how banks came…
Paul Grignon, “Money as Debt” (2006) While looking for something else on Youtube.com, I found this very informative video on how the modern US banking system…
Alex Gibney, “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God” (2012) No matter what narrative or other devices are used to tell or illustrate an…
George Packard, “Beyond Curb Appeal: Jay Shafer and the Politics of Tiny Houses” (2011) While cruising the Internet (as you do), I found this little film…
Leif Kaldor, “Remote Control War” (2011) “Remote Control War” presents as a sober documentary on the use of robotics in war, conflict and espionage in the…
Prairie Public Television, “The Bank of North Dakota” (2005) In an age in which large private banks have a stranglehold over governments and economies, and by…
Lindsay Harris and Stuart Leach, “Unearthed” (2011) On the edge of the known universe, a mining spacecraft The Ezekiel discovers an uncharted barren planet that may…
German and German-language Films, North American Films
Ryan Nagata, “1945A” (2010) Carl Erik Rinsch, “The Gift” (2010) Kaleb Lechowski, “R-Ha” (2012) These films have a few things in common: they’re very short science…
J Robinson (Noisey / VICE) “One Man Metal” (2012) An interesting if bare-bones three-part documentary, this film looks at three one-man black metal acts: Leviathan, Striborg…
Michael J Murphy, “Why in the World are They Spraying?” (2012) This film brings together evidence from aerospace engineers, meteorologists, TV weather reports, ranchers, farmers, ecologists,…