The Boda Boda Thieves, Donald Mugisha, Uganda/Germany, (2015)

Mean streets parable-
Weaving through dearth, race & age:
Soundtrack, sights are grand.

Fractured Land, Damien Gillis & Fiona Rayher, Canada, (2015)

Fights from Treaty 8
Young Caleb Behn; Under seige
He fears for his life. 

The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), Anna Muylaert, Brazil, (2015).

Social contract flips,
Brazilian celeb shines
Through layers of "Mom".

Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, USA, (2015).

Values trump Cold War:
Grim Berlin / Suave U.S.A.
With 2 five star leads.

The Man in the High Castle, Season 1, Ridley Scott, USA, (2015)

Hitler takes U.S.?
Sepia & mystery,
With fab set design.

Containment, Robb Moss and Peter Galison, USA, (2015).

Sludge is forever.
All hundred million gallons.
For ten thousand years.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, Kyle Patrick Alverez, USA, (2015).

Power does corrupt,
Unconscious is ugly.
One sane voice: Woman.

Argentina, Carlos Saura, Spain/France/Argentina, (2015)

High profile folklore-
With movement & aesthetics;
The culture of music is.

Tough Love ("Harte), Rosa Von Praunheim, Germany, (2015).

Incested turned pimp
And renowned karate champ;
True survivor's tale.

The Dinner, Ivano de Matteo, Italy, (2014).

All star Italian,
No one....but all are guilty:
Ethics & Justice. 

Suffragette, Sarah Gavron, UK, (2015)

No rights for women!
"I'd rather be a rebel";
London, Nineteen twelve.

Timbuktu (Le Chagrin Des Oiseaux), Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, (2014)

Jihad in Mali;
Precise, widescreen resistance:
Where is God in this?

Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra, Columbia, (2015).

Power exploited:
Lament for a lost wisdom,
Widescreen Amazon. 

Borealis, Sean Garrity, Canada, (2015)

Gambling is a bitch;
Sean makes it warm and funny;
As with blindness, grief.

The Palio di Siena, Cosima Spender, Italy/UK, (2015)

Race of corruption,
Lover of horses beware;
Hysterical sport.

Disorder (Maryland), Alice Winocour, France, (2015).

Creeping fear, beauty,
Soundscape, and PTSD.
That's about it, folks!

Louder than Bombs, Joachim Trier (2015), Norway

Men can't talk, that's all!
Photos define the structure,
Of loss, memory.......

Mavis!, Jessica Edwards, USA, (2015).

An artist to love!
"Why am I treated so bad?"
This soldier of love.

The End of the Tour, James Ponsoldt, USA, (2015).

Human condition:
Bleek skies. Layered doubt. Blurred lines;
A story within.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, OZ TV series, (2012- )

Period Melbourne,
History, crime, and much fun.
Drop dead Fabulous.

ANZAC Girls, Australia TV mini Series,

Girls in a bloodbath?
in Gallipolli Campaign:
WW 1 and Oz.

The Croods, Chris Sanders, USA (2013).

Fight or flight goes deep.
"Who said survival is fun?"
As ideas win out.

Love is the Perfect Crime, Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu, Frech-Swiss (2013)

Winter chill, Film Noir.
Disociated teacher,
Drawn to deep snow holes.

Partisan, Ariel Kleiman, Australia (2015)

Trapped by mind control,
And churning out child killers.
Disturbing thriller.

GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalam, Shlomi & Ronit Elkabetz, Israel (2015)

We've come a long way.
Baby, you don't matter when,
Rabbi's voice is law.

Strangerland. Kim Farrant, USA/Australia (2015)

Feel the grit and sweat:
Two kids lost in the desert,
With secrets and lies.

A Most Violent Year, J.C. Chandor, US, (2015)

American Dream?
Not without fraud, loot, and shark;
I know. I'm sorry. 

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, US (2014)

We'll be watching you:
Live history in action.
Ed's not the story. 

Grace and Frankie, US, (2015)

Spanx, soul, sap, sex, silly:
Seventy the new fifty.
Four Holloywood stars.

Easy Money, Daniel Espinosa, Sweden (2010)

Three men and their girls,
Messy Swedish gangdom,
Where no one is bad. 

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Felix Herngren, Sweden, (2015)

Life can be random:
And better than Forrest Gump;
Swedishly funny. 

The Green Prince, Nadav Schirman, Germany (2014)

Spy and his handler:
Unexpected sacrifice;
Blurred lines. Neutral stand. 

Omar m'a tuer. Roschdy Zem, France (2011)

Investigate truth-
Of corrupt and racist France:
Immigrant made slave.

The Second Best Marigold Hotel, John Madden, UK (2015)

Second time around,
Geriatric comedy:
Not even funny.

The Immigrant, James Gray, US (2014)

Pimping of the weak,
20's New York, and it's bleak:
Immaculate whore.

A Balcony by the Sea, Nicole Garcia, France (2010)

In a lost past time:
Algeria, France, and fraud;
Unrequited Love.

Mr Turner, Mike Leigh, US (2014)

Shots framed as canvas.
Grunting, groping, genius:
The painter of light. 

Belle, UK, Amma Asanta, (2013)

Good frock flick, but more:
With soul mate fights slavery:
Through fraud in Zong case.

Birdman, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, UK (2014)

Edit points concealed.
With every trick in the book.
Sad, funny, and deep.

The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum, UK, (2014)

Three tenses at once,
Shame to all who moralize!
The story well told. 

American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, USA (2014)

Sheep, wolf, and sheepdog,
Reduced to a stock cliche:
Karma is a bitch. 

The Intouchables, Oliver Nakache & Eric Toledano, France (2011)

Thirty-one awards.
Never laugh at a cripple.
They do, and it works.

The First Grader, Justin Chadwick, UK (2011)

Whitewashed history,
The Mau Mau fought for freedom,
Then to read as well. 

Selma, Ava DuVernay, USA (2015)

Piercing to the heart,
Snubbed by White Academy;
Still so far to go.  

Wentworth, Australia Crime Drama, Seasons 2013, 2014

Relentless power,
Victimized inside and out.
Girls need to watch out.

Gone Girl, David Fincher, US, (2014)

Sociopath wife,
Whose game is it anyways?
Almost perfect crimes.

Homeland, Howard Gordon, US TV Series, Seasons 3 & 4, (2013-14)

Trip over Egos,
Too arrogant to notice:
Foreign policy.