A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Dr Garrett Ryan, “Vampires in Greek Myth” (Told In Stone, 30 October 2021) Casting our fears regarding death and women who might be less than ideal…
Sidney Lumet, “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974) Initially beginning as a lavish drama set in an exotic 1930s Istanbul, Sidney Lumet’s “Murder on the Orient…
Carlton Meyer, “The Destruction of Laos” (Tales of the American Empire, 15 October 2021) Many people know that the Vietnam War dragged Cambodia into its horrors…
James Bailey, “Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of The Third Reich” (2017) A grim and horrifying film, all the more so for its clinical, matter-of-fact tone…
James Kennedy, “CTRL Z” (2017) Cats may have nine lives but the characters in this very funny sci-fi romantic comedy end up having nearly 4,800 lives…
Sandun Seneviratne, Charlie Bray, “Vikaari” (2020) Cunningly disguised as a TV current affairs article / mini-documentary, complete with different styles of filming including videotaping, this short…
Sophia Banks, “Unregistered” (2018) This short film commenting on the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the United States during Donald Trump’s presidency (2017 – 2021) has…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, Spanish Films
Alejandro Suarez Lozano, “The Fisherman” (2015) A cleverly made and succinct little SF horror film set in Hong Kong, “The Fisherman” combines a character study that…
William Hellmuth, “Alone” (2020) A moving film about connection – and about how so strong humans’ need for connection can be that some individuals will travel…
Jesse Mittelstadt, “Flyby” (2019) In its own way this film can be considered a horror film, focusing as it does on how an alien force seems…