documentary
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HITLER'S CHILDREN
As I left the movie house somewhat dazed I simply couldn’t get the phrase out of my head about ‘sons bearing the guilt of their fathers’. Google tells me this originated from the Old Testament where it is paraphrased quite a few times. The trouble is as so often, the Bible is confusion personified and…
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Chasing Madoff
It’s just a sheer co-incidence that I sat and watched this documentary about the uncovering of the Bernie Madoff’s audacious Ponzi fraud scheme the day before that Peter his son is sentenced to 10 years in jail for his part in the conspiracy. A reminder nevertheless that even though Mr Madoff Snr. is already behind…
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(A)SEXUAL
I guess the byline of this movie could be ‘Everything You Need To Know About Not Having Sex’ , but unlike Woody Allen’s movie that I paraphrased this from, this documentary is no laughing matter. It focuses on David Jay a very earnest handsome young man in his 20’s who after he ‘came out’ to…
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SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA & AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE
I have always had a bucket list of movies that for some reason or enough I have never got around too yet but am determined to watch before I leave this earth. Swimming to Cambodia has been on that list for far too long, and when I finally saw it tonight with an over-excited Spalding Gray…
