A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
British Films, North American Films
Christopher Nolan, “The Prestige” (2006) Rather fussy if good-looking film about duplicity and duplications, duelling and an all-consuming devotion to one’s art, “The Prestige” is a…
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: The Assassin” (2011) An ingeniously planned experiment in hypnosis and mind control aimed at discovering whether…
Alicky Sussman, “A Secret History of Mind Control” (2010) I am quite a sucker for films on experimental psychology and mind manipulation experiments, especially if these…
Tom Long, “Assassin” (July 2009) / “Made Man” (September 2009) Found these student film shorts on Youtube and technically they are good for films made on…
Olly Bootle, “Are We Still Evolving?” (2011) UK anthropologist Alice Roberts presents this BBC Horizon documentary investigating whether humans have stopped evolving as a result of…
Peter Leonard, “How to make Better Decisions” (2007) At least I made one good decision to watch this BBC Horizon documentary so I’m already on the…
Nicola Cook, “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” (2007) The notion that a criminal could carry out the perfect murder – as in one that can’t…
Dick Taylor, “Battle of the Brains” (2007) In this BBC documentary, seven people outstanding in their particular fields of endeavour are collected at Oxford Universiity and…
Diene Petterle, “How to Kill a Human Being” (2008) A rather curious BBC Horizon documentary this is, with former British Conservative politician Michael Portillo as guide,…
Alfred Hitchcock, “The Ring” (1927) An early triumph for the young Alfred Hitchcock, released in the same year as his better known “The Lodger: A Story…