Review of Amá (USA, 2018), directed by Lorna Tucker, and produced by Bullfrog Films Written by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine Amá, a powerful and disturbing documentary, tells the hitherto little-known story of the systematic relocation and involuntary sterilization of Native American women in the United States between 1960 and 1980. In a moving […]
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Who Am I To Stop It
A documentary film on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury directed by Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez (USA, 2016) Review by Karina Sturm, filmmaker and journalist Who Am I To Stop It is a feature-length documentary portraying three artists in the US who live with brain injuries by following them through their lives and […]
Khalid Ali in Conversation with Filmmaker Damon Gameau
Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast, award-winning Australian film maker Damon Gameau talks about his new film 2040, which explores what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced solutions that are currently available to improve the planet and focusing on climate, economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, and sustainability. Damon […]
No Stone Left Unturned
The Medicine in Marijuana A film by Ben Daitz and Ned Judge Film Review by James Evans, Film Critic/Historian Loco weed, maryjane, pot, devil’s weed, smoke, reefer, grass, wacky tobacky; there are many and varied slang words for the Cannibas Sativa plant aka marijuana. The urban slang dictionary lists 121 of them. The nuances of these […]
A Beautiful Act of Separation
Film Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent ‘The Disappearance of My Mother’, Beniamino Barrese, Italy 2019, showing at the London Film Festival 2019. Benedetta Barzini is a 76-year old retired lecturer who taught fashion studies at the University of Urbino in Italy. She has strong opinions about the exploitation of women in the fashion industry: ‘’Photographers […]
Conquering Death
Film Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent ‘Hope frozen’, directed by Pailin Wedel, Thailand, USA, 2019 Showing at the BFI London Film Festival, 6th and 7th of October Breakthroughs in medicine and advances in technology such as ‘Thrombolysis’ (clot busting treatment for strokes caused by blood clots in the brain) and ‘Thrombectomy’ (mechanical […]
Protect, or Deprive of Liberty?
Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media correspondent ‘The peanut butter falcon’, directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, USA 2019, Showing at the Love Gala at the BFI London Film Festival, 3, 4th and 11th October 2019. No one can question the fact that healthcare professionals have a duty of care and protection towards […]
Review of Long Cases in General Medicine: A 1983 Aid to the MRCP Exam
Review by Jolyon Bending Roy Pounder. Long Cases in General Medicine (second edition). Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1983. I like old medical text books. They give a sense of the wishes of the author, and inform us of what was instilled in its readers. The ones that come most readily to mind are the grand […]
Healing by Art: Almodovar Champions Arts for Health and Well-Being
‘Pain and Glory’ ‘Dolor y gloria’, directed by Pedro Almodovar, Spain 2019 In general release in UK cinemas on 23rd August 2019 Review by Dr Khalid Ali, film and Media Correspondent In his 21st feature film ‘Pain and glory’, auteur film maker Almodovar reflects on three significant relationships and people; his mother, a former lover […]
Mindlessness
Review by Christina Lee Thomas Joiner, Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism (New York: Oxford University Press 2017). In Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism, Thomas Joiner scrutinises the reliability of positive outcomes in publicised mindfulness-based clinical studies and brings his clinical experience in psychology to shed […]