This is a documentary is just a bringer of happiness! It aims for naturality, truth - the blunt kind - and looks at aspects and Japan's culture and it's people with respect. The premise of this documentary series is that James May from Top Gear and Grand Tour goes to Japan from Hokkaido in the … Continue reading James May: Our Man In Japan
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Begin Japanology / Japanology Plus – An Insightful look in to EVERYTHING Japanese
This is a fantastic documentary series. Whether you like Japanese culture or not. Filled with insight, heart and a lot of interesting topics to submerge yourself to as the calming music, steady old English man voice of the narrator and the voice of our host Peter Barakan takes through the episodes that are an 101 … Continue reading Begin Japanology / Japanology Plus – An Insightful look in to EVERYTHING Japanese
Latcho Drom (1993) – A Musical Journey of the Romani People
The title means Safe Journey in Romani. And this film is a journey with no other plot than the show of travel of who would become the Roma from Northern India to Spain. There is dialogue and sentences in the language of the real Roma speaking in their respective countries where they live, showing their … Continue reading Latcho Drom (1993) – A Musical Journey of the Romani People
Rainy in Glenageary | The Murder of Raonaid Murray (2019)
Rarely one comes across a true crime documentary that so differs from the usual gritty, scandalous and sensationalised style that has become the norm whenever a case is made for the screen that it takes one by surprise. Usually there is video footage, quick edits, rock music, a voice over that can border on annoying … Continue reading Rainy in Glenageary | The Murder of Raonaid Murray (2019)
Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding
Royal weddings are the best! The fairy tale, the guests, the dresses, the music and everything else that makes the papers on what is to be part of royal weddings. But there is also a lot of work to make it so beautiful, from cooks to seamstresses to etiquette that the wedding is the grand … Continue reading Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding
Beware The Slenderman
Slenderman is a fictitious creation of the internet originating from Creepypasta, an internet site where pictures are uploaded along with stories that supposedly happened in relation to that place or being shown. They range from actually horrifying to downright silly, they are urban legends created from the minds of creative people with a knack for … Continue reading Beware The Slenderman
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
True crime is a captivating subject for documentaries, its overused in fact, but if the subject is done well then it will never stop being fascinating. There will always be an audience for it and there will be people who exploit to it so everyone can see and hear the details of whatever case it … Continue reading Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
Mostly Sunny
The Kama Sutra in the 21st century, that is what Sunny Leone is for many people. Yet outside that name is a woman named Karenjit with killer business sense, self branding and who is very sweet and caring human being, qualities that all but make up for her cringeworthy BAD acting in her films in … Continue reading Mostly Sunny
Three Identical Strangers
Life is stranger than fiction. Heck, I think one needs to have M. Night Shyamalan's or Christopher Noland's The Prestiege's (2006) need for bizarre twists just to even write this as a fiction, except it isn't and that is the most unexpected twist of it all. This is just a short review and recommendation because … Continue reading Three Identical Strangers
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Risascimento is the Italian word for the Renaissance, The Rebirth, of both Florence, Italy and Europe. The seeds of it were scattered in its soil with information from the Arabs and the Middle-East, it is thanks to them and their good keeping of ancient records why this whole period of history took place, for when … Continue reading The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Little Corner 