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Documentaries

North American Films

Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 14: Adam Ruins Halloween): beneath the silly slapstick and cheap thrills, a sobering message about manipulating people’s emotions and weaknesses for profit

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Tim Wilkime, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 14: Adam Ruins Halloween)” (2017) Beneath the silliness is a sobering message that the scariest thing about life…

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Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 12: Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories): no, conspiracy theories are not entirely ruined – they’re just not entirely explained well

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Jeff Chan, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 12: Adam Ruins Conspiracy Theories)” (2017) An enjoyable if not very substantial episode in this educational comedy series,…

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Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 11: Adam Ruins the Economy): commendable attempt to explain economic and market concepts and measures to the general public

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“Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 11: Adam Ruins the Economy)” (2017) Explaining economic concepts and measurements of how well economies are performing to the general…

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Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 10: Adam Ruins the Suburbs): exposing a dark racist underbelly of US suburban living

3 min read

Jeff Chan, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 10: Adam Ruins the Suburbs)” (2017) Dedicated as it is to overturning comfortable assumptions and stereotypes about everyday…

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Australian and New Zealand Films, Korean Films

The Haircut: a quirky quest reveals the nature and extent of the Western media propaganda machine against North Korea

4 min read

Alex Apollonov and Aleksa Vulovic, “The Haircut” (2017) Two Sydney undergraduate students’ desire to travel to North Korea to see if they can get hipster-style haircuts…

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What the Media Won’t Tell You about Syria: concentrating on one part of Syria and its geopolitical and economic importance gives way to an oil blowout

3 min read

“What the Media Won’t Tell You about Syria” (ReallyGraceful, 2017) Among other news and facts that the Western mainstream news media ignores about Syria and its…

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What the Media Won’t Tell You About North Korea: packing punches galore in 10 minutes about US designs on North Korea

4 min read

“What the Media Won’t Tell You About North Korea” (ReallyGraceful, 2017) ReallyGraceful is quickly becoming a useful source of alternative information on topics the Western mainstream…

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