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Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children.
2014 documentary called Born In Gaza.
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2014 documentary called Born In Gaza.
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Plastic Paddy
Ferry (The Series), has just been released.
8 parter about the early life of everyone's favourite Belgian, drug dealing scrote, Ferry Bouman.
If you haven't seen Undercover, and Ferry; watch those first.
Mr.Bishie
Edit> The opening of E1 is a bit misleading. It's not a prequel, it's a sequel to Undercover.
8 parter about the early life of everyone's favourite Belgian, drug dealing scrote, Ferry Bouman.
If you haven't seen Undercover, and Ferry; watch those first.
Mr.Bishie
Edit> The opening of E1 is a bit misleading. It's not a prequel, it's a sequel to Undercover.
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Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Loving Wingwomen!
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Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.
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Massive recommendation. Blue Eye Samurai is really, really fucking good.. It doesn’t even matter if you don’t like adult animation. You will love this, or you’re a proper wrong one. And if you don’t believe me, beat this for rave reviews across the board…
Perfect blend of exquisite cinematic animation and a gripping, very well written storyline. Anyways, as you can tell, I like it
Perfect blend of exquisite cinematic animation and a gripping, very well written storyline. Anyways, as you can tell, I like it
All The Light We Cannot See
Limited series.
Worth a watch..Louis Hofman who played Jonas in DARK plays a young German radio officer.
Hugh Laurie plays "the professor". He's the best actor by a mile in it.
.followed by little Nell Sutton a blind child actress who plays 7 yr Marie Laure.
It's not massively brilliant... not as good as the book..but its a good watch for an evening.
Limited series.
Worth a watch..Louis Hofman who played Jonas in DARK plays a young German radio officer.
Hugh Laurie plays "the professor". He's the best actor by a mile in it.
.followed by little Nell Sutton a blind child actress who plays 7 yr Marie Laure.
It's not massively brilliant... not as good as the book..but its a good watch for an evening.
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We’ve just finished Blue Eye Samurai, and I make no apology for plugging it again. It is simply fucking superb, and I am once more compelled to urge anyone put off by the fact that it is an animation to give this the benefit of the doubt. This is all about the quality of the writing and the storytelling, which are as gripping as anything I’ve seen this year regardless of live action or animation. An actual 10/10 from me.
Next on my list
Looking forward to seeing this after we finish season 3 of Ragnarok which is slightly pissing me off for some reason.
If you like your anime, recommend The Way of the Househusband. Each ep is about 15-17 mins long and basically about an ex Yakuza taking on the strain of daily mundane tasks. It's a hoot and really hope it's on your Netflix.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
I feel like I've seen some of that? If it is what I think it is, it's quite a good take on essentially a very macho hardnut guy who thought his life was hard before, struggling to get through a day doing things that are typically seen as women's/homemaking tasks - in a fairly sympathetic and humorous way. (From the little I recall).
Could be! The animation is not OTT like in some and the shopping and cooking duels are funny and best of all, it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Season 3 pissed me off too...
Halfway through and disappointed that what was refreshing seems to have followed a cliché that has slowed the whole thing down.
Ok, it picks up for the last half. But that's a somewhat... interesting ending. Open to interpretation, reckon.
Overall, it's still an agreeable antidote to the Marvel take on the mythology.
Next one has to be American Gods, if it's free on Amazon...
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Plastic Paddy
Turn of The Tide.
We really enjoyed the first couple of episodes. A 100 million Euro cargo of Mafia cocaine gets shipwrecked and washes up on the the beach of a poor fishing village in the Azores. The entire village promptly help themselves to it whilst trying to evade the police and the mob. At the moment they're finding it difficult to make money out of it because there's no one to sell it to, the massive over-supply has made it almost worthless, and everyone's off their tits.
Very good Portuguese dark comedy.
We really enjoyed the first couple of episodes. A 100 million Euro cargo of Mafia cocaine gets shipwrecked and washes up on the the beach of a poor fishing village in the Azores. The entire village promptly help themselves to it whilst trying to evade the police and the mob. At the moment they're finding it difficult to make money out of it because there's no one to sell it to, the massive over-supply has made it almost worthless, and everyone's off their tits.
Very good Portuguese dark comedy.
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Escaping Twin Flames. Another excellent cult exposé miniseries, looking at the evils of online cult Twin Flames Universe. A very modern day evil, but rooted in the same old shit of preying on vulnerable people's yearning for love and manipulating/abusing them to extract loads of money. Absolute pair of cunts in charge, I wish them nothing but ill.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
The Killer. Good but not great. I loved the pace, detail, style and use of locations. Fassbender's accomplished; Tilda Swinton does a decent 5 minute turn and there's an ace punch up and a few stylish killings. Smiths soundtrack is a bit underwhelming.
The ending is lame.
tony.c
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I've just started Fauda Season 3. One of the scriptwriters was interviewed on Channel 4 News last week. He said a storyline had been suggested where 10 Hamas commandos broke through the Gaza security fence, attacked a kibbutz and took hostages back to Gaza. But it was decided that was too far fetched as Israeli intelligence would have known about such a plan, surveillance would have seen the breach, and the IDF would have reacted immediately.
Co-creator of Israeli action series Fauda on writing about conflict, and storylines coming true
Fauda - the Hebrew and Arabic word for chaos - is a hit Netflix drama series based around a group of undercover Israeli agents - which has been hailed for featuring both Palestinians and Israelis as human beings caught up in conflict.
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kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Is the first 20 minutes typical of the rest of it? Because I am not getting on with this so far at all.
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Honestly, it’s all about the story arc, the way it’s narrated, and the character development- which are very good indeed. Stick to it and if you’re not enjoying it by the end of the second episode I’d be very surprised. Many twists await.
We've seen the first episode. Animation is beautiful, but so far it's a bit derivative in parts (am thinking of the courtyard scene from Hero). However, early days and it's intriguing enough to continue - we'll be sticking with it.
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Plastic Paddy
Turn of The Tide.
We really enjoyed the first couple of episodes. A 100 million Euro cargo of Mafia cocaine gets shipwrecked and washes up on the the beach of a poor fishing village in the Azores. The entire village promptly help themselves to it whilst trying to evade the police and the mob. At the moment they're finding it difficult to make money out of it because there's no one to sell it to, the massive over-supply has made it almost worthless, and everyone's off their tits.
Very good Portuguese dark comedy.
We finished this tonight and it was a thoroughly good romp, despite a couple of holes towards the end.
Looking forward to the second series.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
It just feels a bit cliched and obvious, like a more beautifully drawn Pokémon cartoon. But maybe it develops.
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Nicely executed as the drawings and the fight scenes are, they very quickly take a back seat as the increasingly complex plot and backstories of most of the main characters develops snd takes over. This is in essence a thrilling revenge story- think John Wick meets Kill Bill, but with more meat than either of those plot-wise.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
yeah. it was wathcalbe - offbeat style and all that but didnt really deliver. Reminded me of Day of the Jackal - but not nearly as good.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Massive recommendation. Blue Eye Samurai is really, really fucking good.. It doesn’t even matter if you don’t like adult animation. You will love this, or you’re a proper wrong one. And if you don’t believe me, beat this for rave reviews across the board…
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Perfect blend of exquisite cinematic animation and a gripping, very well written storyline. Anyways, as you can tell, I like it
best friggin show on netflix in 2023
not just you standard run of the mill anime
you don't get kenneth branagh with an irish accent if your not something special
just watch the trailer
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Is anyone watching Scott Pilgrim Precious Little Life?
It's interesting in that Edgar Wright (Directed the film version) and Bryan Lee O'Mally (the original comic book writer) are involved. Also every single one of the original film cast have come back to voice the characters including . . Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartzman.
With a guest cast including Will Forte, weird Al Yankovic, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.
It's full of style and made by top anime studios in Japan and has an impressive soundtrack . . .
. . .but. . . it's really a bit disappointing so far.
Given that it was a series I thought it might follow the the original comic books like a higher production value 'Scott Pilgrim vs The Animation', a series of shorts made to promote the film back in 2010.
But it's not. It follows the film (but much faster) up until an obvious point (spoilers), then goes wildly in an almost alternate reality direction. We are up to the last two episodes and so far Scott Pilgrim has only been in one. Was the script written to accommodate the voice cast? Most of the bigger names take a noticeable back seat.
My other bug bear is the voice acting. These may be all famous actors, but they are not voice actors, or maybe they are not being directed correctly? It just sounds like they are reading something straight from a page in a booth. No ambiance or reaction to the action or movement. It's a dreadfully flat delivery. The animation doesn't even fit the mouth movements. It's like the two have been done compleatly separately and an editor has done the best he can. (As everything bar the Voice acting was done in Japan, I am curious to to try out the Japanese language version, maybe it's better).
I really wanted to like this but I am not feeling engaged at all. Maybe it is not for me, my teenage daughter seems quite happy with it. She says the mouth thing is fine.
It's interesting in that Edgar Wright (Directed the film version) and Bryan Lee O'Mally (the original comic book writer) are involved. Also every single one of the original film cast have come back to voice the characters including . . Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartzman.
With a guest cast including Will Forte, weird Al Yankovic, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.
It's full of style and made by top anime studios in Japan and has an impressive soundtrack . . .
. . .but. . . it's really a bit disappointing so far.
Given that it was a series I thought it might follow the the original comic books like a higher production value 'Scott Pilgrim vs The Animation', a series of shorts made to promote the film back in 2010.
But it's not. It follows the film (but much faster) up until an obvious point (spoilers), then goes wildly in an almost alternate reality direction. We are up to the last two episodes and so far Scott Pilgrim has only been in one. Was the script written to accommodate the voice cast? Most of the bigger names take a noticeable back seat.
My other bug bear is the voice acting. These may be all famous actors, but they are not voice actors, or maybe they are not being directed correctly? It just sounds like they are reading something straight from a page in a booth. No ambiance or reaction to the action or movement. It's a dreadfully flat delivery. The animation doesn't even fit the mouth movements. It's like the two have been done compleatly separately and an editor has done the best he can. (As everything bar the Voice acting was done in Japan, I am curious to to try out the Japanese language version, maybe it's better).
I really wanted to like this but I am not feeling engaged at all. Maybe it is not for me, my teenage daughter seems quite happy with it. She says the mouth thing is fine.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
I dunno about that, I loved Chernobyl and I think this is up there with it at least IMO.
I think it's been incredibly well done, the scenes early on were absolutely heartrending and very impactful.
I wonder if a lot of younger people haven't heard about the disaster, then watching this might be a bit of an educational eye-opener also.
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