A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Sadie Rogers, “How is This the World” (2019) Starting out almost as a gritty film noir crime thriller, this short film transforms into a music video…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Teng Cheng, Li Wei, “Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification” (2020) Inspired by the 16th-century Chinese novel by Xu Zhonglin, “The Investiture of the Gods”, itself based…
Nanette Burstein, “Hillary (Episode 4: Be Our Champion, Go Away)” (2020) If the first three episodes of this series on Hillary Rodham Clinton are essentially worshipful…
Barry Sonnenfeld, “Men in Black II” (2002) Five years after the events of the original “Men in Black”, at the end of which Agent K (Tommy…
Joel Schumacher, “Batman & Robin” (1997) Some folks probably call this film “Flatman & Ribbon” for the fact that the Dynamic Duo (played respectively by George…
Joel Schumacher, “Batman Forever” (1995) After Tim Burton’s “Batman Returns” scooped millions at the box office, there was the general feeling that his films of the…
Tim Burton, “Batman Returns” (1992) A Christmas movie that probably rarely enters most viewers’ lists of Christmas movies to watch is this wintry sequel to Burton’s…
Quentin Tarantino, “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004) The revenge odyssey of The Bride, whom we met in the first chapter of the “Kill Bill” movie series,…
Quentin Tarantino, “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) Inspired by and paying homage to grindhouse cinema and the film genres that dominate it – cheap ‘n’ cheerful…
Isaac G G Nabwana, “Who Killed Captain Alex?” (2010) Reputedly made on a budget of US$200 (though American-born Ugandan producer Alan Ssali Hofmanis admits the budget…