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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Every inch of footage holds such a laugh!
Filmmaker(s): Buster Keaton

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Creating the Art of Folding am an enthusiast of what I call "folding" in film. That's the collection of techniques that map some awareness or identification of what the film is, to the story within the film. It isn't just a simple game, but a...


Published December 11, 2024
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Only when you are lost can you truly find yourself
Filmmaker(s): Bille August

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

Authorship did not work for me, and I would like to discover and report why. It is a film adapted from a successful book, in which (another) book is the primary agent. Both the outer and inner books are deeply philosophical, abstracting themes about life that...


Published December 24, 2024
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Invitation to a Murder (2023)
Everyone is a suspect.
Filmmaker(s): Stephen Shimek

A reclusive billionaire invites six seemingly random strangers to his island estate in the south of England. Aspiring detective Miranda Green finds the mysterious invitation too alluring to pass up. When another guest turns up dead, Miranda must get to the bottom of the malicious plot behind the gathering.

Hidden Fathers, Lost Mothers is a lesson in what not to do if you decide to milk instead of going a genre. The genre of course is defined by Agatha Christie. In its pure form is has a remote location, a murder, and then others,...


Published June 17, 2025
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Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games (2009-2024)

Origami still in the paper on two-thirds of a long series.) I’ve watched all of the first season, and most of the second. So you don’t have to, these are TV episodes for a French audience that are well produced with the charms peculiar to a...


Published June 17, 2025
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Fountain of Youth (2025)
The best secrets are the hardest to find.
Filmmaker(s): Guy Ritchie

A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he'll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.

Architecture Under normal circumstances, I would warn you away from this. It is an unintegrated collection of elements designed to take a few dollars and hours in exchange for an escape. It supposes to triangulate that zone among ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘National Treasure’, and ‘The DaVinci Code’....


Published June 17, 2025
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Stranger Eyes (2024)
Filmmaker(s): Yeo Siew Hua

After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur but the family starts to crumble as secrets unravel under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.

Art, seen film seems targeted for the ‘art film’ market. Comments focus on the deep perspective it presents, though for what varies. Lowbrow viewers remark on the pervasive surveillance state of Singapore — the municipal cameras. More arty reviewers think it is a good example...


Published June 17, 2025
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Murder by Death (1976)
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
Filmmaker(s): Robert Moore

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

Simple Mind Games mystery is like no other narrative device because it challenges the viewer to a duel. You the viewer or reader are invited to outguess the detective character, the crook and even the writer. But since the created world depends on the writer,...


Published July 19, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
It takes a spy to hunt a spy.
Filmmaker(s): Steven Soderbergh

When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.

Section 39 am designating this as the first ‘four’ of 2025. I allow myself only two films from a year that have this recommendation. They are the films that I think either changed filmdom, or changed me and it is rare that a mainstream film...


Published July 28, 2025
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Oblivion (2013)
Earth is a memory worth fighting for.
Filmmaker(s): Joseph Kosinski

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

Appropriated Appropriateness measure of a science fiction movie is whether the science and fiction are coherent. I’ve been following the Hunger Games saga and this is driving me crazy. Some technology is advanced, some adopted from the sixties. In good hands, like with Nolan’s Interstellar,...


Published February 19, 2023
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Jasper Jones (2017)
A knock at the window. Their lives changed forever.
Filmmaker(s): Rachel Perkins

Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.

The Girls background, I am an American emigrated to Australia, someone particularly aware of embedded racism and misogyny in the US. It poisons the social contract that is behind the grand experiment that was the US. So I am curious about how similar dynamics have...


Published September 4, 2025
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