Category: Documentaries

  • Encounters Documentary Festival 2014

    Encounters Documentary Festival 2014

    I love watching documentaries. I always learn so much. The Encounters Documentary Festival always presents a quandary for me as I have to choose which documentaries to watch due to time limitations. They asked me to review a few for them again this year, so after going through the list I finally managed to whittle…

  • Encounters Documentary Festival 2012

    I’m a documentary nut. If you look at the documentary review category on this site, you’ll see a stack of reviews. Those are just the ones I reviewed, I’ve seen many more. So you can imagine the Encounters Documentary festival is something I look forward to each year. This year I was asked to preview…

  • Our Daily Poison review

    Our Daily Poison review

    A while backed I reviewed a documentary which impressed me. It was called The World According to Monsanto. It was a documentary about genetic modification of food, a favourite topic of mine (you can read some of my thoughts on the topic here and here). What made this documentary unique was that it did not…

  • Inside Job review

    When people around me complain about the corruption of our government in South Africa, my response is always the same. I’d rather have our corrupt government than anyone else’s. The citizens of the United States of America and to a slightly lesser extent Europe, are being milked dry and don’t even know it. At least…

  • Gaslands documentary review

    Imagine you lived somewhere for forty years. Somewhere out in the country where the air is clean and you’re surrounded by open fields and mountains in the distance. You live a simple life, making a living from farming the land, but you’re happy. You’re healthy and your kids are healthy and life is good. It’s…

  • End of the Line review

    When I went to see End of the Line at Nu Metro in the V&A the other night, I was disappointed but not surprised. I was disappointed to see that there were only about twenty people watching the documentary while half the other movies were completely sold out. I was not surprised though, documentaries are…

  • Tapped review

    I can’t remember exactly when I became aware of the problem of bottled water. I do have a post on Relax with Dax (The Scourge of Bottled Water) which was written in April 2006, so probably sometime before then. I personally try not to drink bottled water unless there is no alternative, but many people…

  • The Yes Men Fix The World documentary review

    I loved this documentary. I had heard about the Yes Men, but it was great to actually see them in action and learn about the various stunts they pulled. Imagine this, the Yes Men pose as a Dow Chemical spokesperson and inform 300m people on BBC news that Dow has decided to clean up the…

  • Change – New SA TV series

    I’ve never really been that impressed with South African TV, but lately that seems to be changing. I wrote about the TV series MAN which has been airing on Friday nights recently. I thought it was pretty good and I’ve also been impressed with another recent series called Way of the Warrior. The other day…

  • A Sea Change review

    A Sea Change is a gentle documentary, in contrast to some of the documentaries which give you nightmares for months afterwards like Earthlings. This documentary looks at the topic of ocean acidification which is something most people are not aware of. We are aware that the oceans absorb carbon dioxide, in fact scientists have been…