A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
British Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Graham Phillips, “Vladivostok 2020” (2020) In this 20-minute showcase of the glories of Vladivostok, the famed Pacific Ocean gateway to Russia, investigative British journalist Graham Phillips…
British Films, North American Films
Keith and David Lynch, “Zero” (2019) In a post-apocalyptic world, when robots and humans have fought each other almost to the death in a long drawn-out…
British Films, Italian and Italian-language Films
Nicolas Roeg, “Don’t Look Now” (1973) Adapted from the short story with the same title by Daphne du Maurier, this famous British cult horror film is…
British Films, North American Films
Daniel Prince, “Invaders” (2018) Playing as a homage and parody of the 1980s film “Batteries Not Included” in which a bunch of tiny extraterrestrial cyborg spaceships…
Ken Loach, “Sorry We Missed You” (2019) He may be well into his 80s but Ken Loach continues to make social realist film dramas that document…
Bill Condon, “The Good Liar” (2019) Getting two giants of British stage and film proved to be the least of director Bill Condon’s problems; the biggest…
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, “Farming” (2018) “Farming” is a fictional biographical drama based on actor / director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s childhood growing up in Britain as a foster child…
British Films, North American Films
Gavin Hood, “Official Secrets” (2019) As fictional dramatisations of real events go, “Official Secrets” passes muster in its narrative of a translator working for the British…
Lindsay Anderson, “O Lucky Man!” (1973) A satirical allegory that exposes life in Western capitalist society and the values and beliefs needed to survive successfully in…
Ken Russell, “Savage Messiah” (1972) Idiosyncratic British director Ken Russell’s “Savage Messiah” is a fictional biographic drama of the short life of French artist and sculptor…