THE ULTIMATE WAVE: TAHITI IMAX 3D (2010) – QUICK REVIEW

2010 DIRECTOR: Steven Low 60/100 What's to say? It looks good. But being as this is a low budget IMAX documentary about surfing, plot is not really high on the agenda. But as with all IMAX documentaries, this splits its 45 minute runtime between some pretty decent surfing footage (though I have to admit that…

FILM OF THE MONTH ~ SEPTEMBER 2015

The FOTM for September is none other than Val Guest's British sci-fi classic, The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961). This was covered in detail this month with a week dedicated to reviews from the latest BFI Blu-ray edition, which also included three nuclear themed documentaries from 1950's/60's. This ran here on nEoFILM between 14th -…

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND (SHORT)

1962 DIRECTOR: David Cobham The Hole In The Ground is a colour docudrama, the nearest that I've seen to the chilling 1984 docudrama, Threads, which focuses on the role and procedures of the Royal Observer Corps (British) in the event of a nuclear attack. It is a bit dry, stiff upper lipped and reeks of…

THE H-BOMB (SHORT)

1956 DIRECTOR: David Villiers This 22 minute short subject was an information film trying to put into context the dangers and the attitudes needed to survive a nuclear attack in Great Britain, just a year after the Warsaw Pact was signed and the A-Bomb was giving way to the much more powerful Hydrogen, or H-Bomb.…

OPERATION HURRICANE (SHORT)

1952 DIRECTOR: Ronald Stark Operation Hurricane is a short subject chronicling in detail, the efforts made during the early days of the cold war and more importantly, the beginnings of the Nuclear Arms Race, as Great Britain test their first A-bomb in the Indian Ocean. This was it, the Atomic bomb test by Britain as it entered the burgeoning…

9|11 (TV DOCUMENTARY)

2002 DIRECTORS: James Hanlon, Gédéon Naudet & Jules Naudet 9|11 was first aired on the 1st Anniversary of the attacks in September 2001, but by now, the 14th Anniversary of the world-changing event, 9|11 has lost some of its poignancy but not much. After so many more detailed accounts, following the jumpers, the heroic emergency services and the…

UNITED 93 (2006) – REVIEW

2006 DIRECTOR: Paul Greengrass This is simply an incredible movie. Certainly one of the most moving and intense that I have seen in many years. Now, seventeen years on, this film's poignancy is still as relevant today as it ever was. Casting relative unknowns was the key to this frightening realistic portrayal of the world shattering events of September 11.…