A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Frank Capra, “Rendezvous in Space” (1964) A promotional industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Corporation – a precursor of Lockheed Martin – this curious documentary,…
Garrett Ryan, “Public Latrines in Ancient Rome” (Toldinstone, 15 December 2021) In the space of seven minutes (as twenty seconds are devoted to the mention of…
Carlton Meyer, “The Disastrous Liberation of the Philippines” (Tales of the American Empire, 10 December 2021) In this short documentary, military historian Carlton Meyer makes his…
Dr Garrett Ryan, “How a Fish Bankrupted the Roman Aristocracy” (Told In Stone, 27 November 2021) In this instalment in his Told In Stones series which…
Dr Garrett Ryan, “A Murder Mystery in Roman Egypt” (Told In Stone, 24 November 2021) This entertaining little documentary is actually less a whodunnit tale and…
Carlton Meyer, “The 1964 Coup in Brazil” (Tales of the American Empire, 12 November 2021) This instalment in Meyer’s ongoing series investigating the long history of…
Dr Garrett Ryan, “Vampires in Greek Myth” (Told In Stone, 30 October 2021) Casting our fears regarding death and women who might be less than ideal…
Garrett Ryan, “Ancient Greek Buddhists” (Toldinstone, 16 October 2021) A very fascinating snapshot of a short period in ancient Central Asian and Indian subcontinent history, this…
Carlton Meyer, “The Destruction of Laos” (Tales of the American Empire, 15 October 2021) Many people know that the Vietnam War dragged Cambodia into its horrors…
Garrett Ryan, “Mren Cathedral and the Last World War of Antiquity” (Toldinstone, 2018) Part of a series about ten Roman / Byzantine-era buildings built in the…