Movie/TV Reviews

The 1986 British animated film When the Wind Blows offers a bleak warning about mutually assured destruction, but no one heeded the advice. When the Wind Blows shows an elderly couple, Jim and Hilda, survive a nuclear attack and make their best efforts to get through the aftermath, but slowly die from radiation sickness. Almost … Read more

Remember the ending of Back To the Future when Biff the bully is waxing the Mcflys’ car? This is actually the funniest unintended time capsule moment in movie, because it shows Biff as a self employed auto detailer, and this is supposed to be the bad timeline for him. And yet for the standards of … Read more

I suffered through watching The Odyssey so you don’t have to. Here’s what I saw, and why it’s important. All of my previous apprehension about this movie turned out to be correct, but I didn’t expect it to be this bad. The plot is meandering, weirdly written and badly paced. It reminds me of Dune, … Read more

Recently I watched the 1943 pro-Soviet Hollywood movie The North Star, set in the Ukrainian SSR at the start of the German invasion. I found it to be quite entertaining and informative. The North Star’s message, of course, is that Soviet people are America’s friends, and there’s no better way to do that than to … Read more

For reasons I can’t quite explain, watching A Man For All Seasons compelled me to have another watch of V For Vendetta. Maybe it is because they are both about the same thing; a rebellion against British authority. And yet in a way they are opposites of each other.