Category: Documentaries

I never get round to reviewing Hollywood movies I see, not that I watch many of them any way. There just doesn’t seem to be much point. Basically all you need to know is the basic plot, who is in it and whether it is worth watching or not. But I love reviewing documentaries, they…

Last night I watched the Borat movie. I know it’s been out for a while but I just never have time to go to the movies. That is also the reason you won’t see many movie reviews on this site. A certain friend who regularly watches movies promised to do reviews for me but has…

This documentary stars Al Gore. It’s pretty funny when he introduces himself, he says: “Hi, I’m Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States.”. This movie is basically a presentation about the problem of global warming. The movie tag line is: A Global Warning, which I thought was pretty clever too.…

On the 15th August I posted some info about a documentary that was screening at the Labia called The Future of Food. I went to watch it last night and was appalled at some of the things I learnt. The focus of the documentary was genetically modified foodstuffs and whilst the documentary did focus mainly…

The other night I went to watch a second documentary at the Encounters Documentary Festival, The Bridget Jones Phenomenon in SA. It was interesting because it tackled a very real problem which is that there is a large number of single over 30 women in SA (there are also many guys in the same boat).…

I didn’t know much about the whole Enron debacle. All I knew was that it was a big company in the US which went bankrupt due to fraud perpetrated by the executives. I found it really interesting to learn what happened and how it could happen. It was really quite sad to see how the…