A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Carlton Meyer, “The Empire’s 2021 Coup in Guinea” (Tales of the American Empire, 17 September 2021) This video serves as another short and succinct example of…
Bao Nguyen, “Be Water” (2020) A stolid documentary, Bao Nguyen’s visual biography of global pop culture icon Bruce Lee is a conventional retelling of his life,…
“Navalny: Fake Poisoning (Part 1: The Patient)” (Soloviev LIVE / Vesti News, 24 August 2021) Presented by Alexander Sosnovsky and Sergei Karnaukhov, this very smooth and…
Josh Greenbaum, “Becoming Bond” (2017) Part-fictional comedy re-enactment, part-biography, this is a very affable review of Australian actor George Lazenby’s early life up to and including…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, South African Films
“China / Africa Big Business (Episode 4: Doctors for Africa)” (ENDEVR, 2013) A very good episode in the “China / Africa Big Business” series from the…
Latin American Films (non-Spanish / non-Portuguese)
Ricardo Vaz, Joshua Wilson, Mayra Soto, “How is US pop culture used against Venezuela?” (Tatuy TV / Venezuelanalysis, 21 June 2021) At less than five minutes…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
“The War in the Shadows: Challenges of Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang” (China Global Television Network, 2021) Part of a series of documentaries produced by China Global…
Glen MacKay, “Life in the Day of Aliya Mustafina” (2020) Since 2009 when she joined the Russian senior national women’s gymnastics team, Aliya Mustafina has become…
“Ask The Experts (Covid-19 Vaccine)” (Oracle Films, 7 December 2020) Banned on Facebook and Youtube, this film features over thirty doctors plus a nurse, a pharmacist,…
John Furse, “Not In Our Name: The Psychological Torture of Julian Assange” (July 2020) Making good use of archived video material and photographs, current news reels…