Month: July 2011

Movie Review – The Sound of Insects (2010)

Movie Number– 103 Title– The Sound of Insects (2010) Running Time– 87 minutes (“Not Rated”) Director– Peter Liechti Writer– Peter Liechti, Masahiko Shimada (novella) Starring– Peter Mettler — (Originally an IP Movies Review) Like so many of my peers, I used to relate documentaries to the classroom. From elementary school to post-graduate studies, documentaries are…


Movie Review – We Are What We Are (2011)

Movie Number– 97 Title– We Are What We Are (2011) Running Time– 89 minutes (“Not Rated”) Director– Jorge Michel Grau Writer– Jorge Michel Grau Starring– Carmen Beato, Paulina Gaitan, Francisco Barreiro, and Alan Chávez — (Originally an IP Movies Review) Cannibal films seem to play second fiddle nowadays in the horror genre. This subgenre thrived…


Movie Review – Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Movie Number– 92 Title– Sands of the Kalahari (1965) Running Time– 120 minutes (“Not Rated”) Director– Cy Endfield Writer– Cy Endfield (screenplay), William Mulvihill (novel) Starring– Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker and Susannah York — When watching films adapted from novels, one has to consider that if the director attempted to fit the entire – or…