A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Latin American Films (non-Spanish / non-Portuguese), Middle Eastern Films
Abby Martin, “Empire Files: Israelis Speak Candidly About Palestinians” (October 2017) Abby Martin is an American journalist who hosts an ongoing current affairs show The Empire…
Oscar Rudolph, “Batman (Season 2, Episodes 51 / 52: A Piece of the Action / Batman’s Satisfaction)” (1967) Even for the lightweight situation comedy / family show…
Harvey Cashore, “Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada” (The Fifth Estate, December 2017) As The Fifth Estate’s website post on this documentary says, the scenario…
Ronna Syed, “A Tale of Two Traitors” (Fifth Estate, March 2018) In the wake of the recent incident in the UK concerning a suspected poisoning of…
Maurice May, “BBC Panorama: What Facebook Knows About You” (2017) Half an hour for a documentary simply doesn’t do justice to the topic of what social…
Pennant Roberts, “Doctor Who: Shada” (2017) Not often do particular adventures in the long-running “Doctor Who” television series which first ran from 1963 to 1988 and…
Laura Murphy, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 13: Adam Ruins Wellness)” (2017) Once again gatecrashing the most unlikely places – like right in the middle…
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,…
“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…
Laura Murphy, “Adam Ruins Everything (Season 2, Episode 8: Emily Ruins Adam)” (2017) At long last, for those who always wanted to get their back on…