A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Australian and New Zealand Films
“Post Mortem” (Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 28 June 2021) Posited as an investigation into the recent history and culture of Australia Post, and the actions…
Australian and New Zealand Films
“The Power of Falun Gong” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 21 July 2020) Purporting to be an expose of Falun Gong’s activities as a secretive religious…
Australian and New Zealand Films, Chinese and Chinese-language Films
“The Secret Armada” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 14 July 2020) Despite the spine-tingling thrill of the episode title, this piece on apparent North Korean fishing…
Australian and New Zealand Films, Northern European Films
“The Swedish Model” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 30 June 2020) In March 2020, when the SARS-CoV-2 virus had been circulating in Europe for at least…
Australian and New Zealand Films
“The Doctor vs the President” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2 June 2020) Even during the COVID-19 global pandemic, Western mainstream news media outlets can never…
Francis Plourde, “Operation Mr Chen: The Hidden Face of Quebec’s Golden Visas” (Enquete, September 2018) In 1986 the Canadian federal government and the Quebec provincial government…
Aaron Bastani, Gary McQuiggin, “The Coup in Venezuela, Explained” (Novara Media, 2019) Here comes a very timely report on the recent history of Venezuela’s politics and…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 3: Moncef Marzouki)” (Russia Today, 1 May 2012) In this episode, Julian Assange interviews Moncef Marzouki, the President of Tunisia and a…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 2: David Horowitz and Slavoj Zizek)” (Russia Today, 24 April 2012) For this episode, interviewer Julian Assange brought together two opposed public intellectuals,…
“The World Tomorrow (Episode 1: Hassan Nasrallah)” (Russia Today, 18 April 2012) First in a series of 12 interviews conducted by Wikileaks dissident Julian Assange and…