A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Derren Brown and Simon Dinsell, “Derren Brown – The Experiments: Gameshow” (2011) In Episode 2 of a 4-part psychology series, sceptic and mesmerist Derren Brown is…
Frank Morrow / Alternative Views, Gulf War documentary (1990s?) Found an interesting documentary on the Gulf War which delves into the history of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait…
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…
Martin Scorsese, “American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince” (1978) After making his break-through films “Mean Streets”, “Taxi Driver” and “New York, New York”, Martin Scorsese…
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,…