A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Daniel Roher, “Tuner” (2015) The notion that a piano tuner and a safe-cracking expert can share similar attributes – an incredibly sharp sense of hearing, tactile…
Brandon Cronenberg, “Infinity Pool” (2023) Take away the extreme violence, the scenes of sleazy sex and the over-acting and what we end up with is a…
Patrick Hagarty, “Home in Time” (2019) In time for Christmas, this amusing sci-fi comedy short about a married couple preparing for family Christmas at their home…
Andy Alvarez, “Sol” (2020) In a world devastated by climate change (and perhaps global war), two survivors – Claudia (Rukiya Bernard) and her young daughter Marisol…
“Fear Psychosis and the Cult of Safety – Why are People so Afraid?” (Academy of Ideas, 3 April 2022) In itself, this is an interesting video…
Kailey and Sam Spear, “Alien: Ore” (2019) To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror film “Alien”, the film production company 20th Century Fox…
“The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?” (Academy of Ideas, 24 April 2021) In past centuries, mass psychosis in…
“The Mass Psychosis and the Demons of Dostoevsky” (Academy of Ideas, 31 March 2021) Drawing on the work of psychoanalysts Carl Jung and Joost Meerloo, this…
Is a Mass Psychosis the Greatest Threat to Humanity? (Academy of Ideas, 27 February 2021) Academy of Ideas is a Canadian-based website that explores and explains…
Matt Bissonnette, “Death of a Ladies’ Man” (2020) Inspired by the poetry and songs of Canadian poet / novelist / singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, some of whose…