A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Egmont R Koch and Michael Wech, “Biological Weapons & Experimentation on Humans (Frank Olson)” (2002) Recent news of the death of Chinese physicist Zhang Shoucheng, supposedly…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Steven McGregor, “Servant or Slave” (2017) Few Australians have very little appreciation of the apartheid-style society that exploited Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islanders and even Melanesians…
“The Tsar and Empress: Secret Letters” (2017) A lavish two-part series revolving around the letters that Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and his…
Latin American Films (Spanish language)
Hernando Calvo Ospina, “Venezuela, the Hidden Agenda / Venezuela, la Oscura Causa” (2017) A very informative documentary, “Venezuela …” reveals the true nature of the war…
Jeff Chan, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 9: Adam Ruins His Vacation)” (2017) At last didactic comedian Adam Conover has something in common with most…
Amy Winfrey, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 6: Adam Ruins What We Learned In School)” (2017) In this completely animated episode, Adam Conover joins a…
British Films, Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Ian Bremner, “Secret History (Season 14, Episode 4: The Great Wall of China – Hidden Story)” (2014) The famous Great Wall of China is rightly one…
Elliott Kew “Treasures Decoded (Season 4, Episode 1:The Real Tower of Babel)” (2017) The Bible story of the construction of the Tower of Babel as a…
Tom Cebula, “Treasures Decoded (Season 4, Episode 8: Garden of Eden)” (2017) Many if not most people in Western society know of the Biblical story of…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Gillian Armstrong, “Women He’s Undressed” (2015) Hollywood could not have dreamt up a more classic story of the country boy who finds his home town and…