Reviews

An excellent trilogy comes to an overlong and disappointing end. A stoic and determined detective turns into a blubbering wreck, the plot becomes a satanic melodrama and two many subplots clutter the main story.

A good film apart from some silly action scenes. When the man is unseen, the tension is high and the acting demands skill. As soon as he becomes partly visible, its descends into boring old American violence. I'm sure this view won't be shared by US audiences who prefer action to subtlety. Moss will be praised for her acting skills even though nothing more than looking and acting frightened and shocked is asked of her. She can do much more and deserves more a nuanced direction and script.

Obviously, there are no other countries in the world but the US and the UK. This could have been of global interest and breadth, with talented actors and nuanced wit, buy sadly, it's the usual America-focused plate of cold porridge. Wasted opportunity for an in-depth reflection on a horrendous year.

I enjoyed the first two seasons even though they funny bear too much reflection after viewing - a cleverly made ode to feminism where almost all women are smart, intuitive and good and almost all man are bad. That nonsense aside, the series badly deteriorated in season sure to bring dumbed down to please an American audience. Akin to finding a needle in a huge haystack, the women, together with their US counterparts they miraculously track down and immediately convince to join them, follow their intuition and a couple of course and outsmart the police to find the - obvious to anyone from episode two onward - serial killer. Even the red herring suspect is blindingly obvious. Disappointing.

I dipped into the first episode of this and found myself losing an entire weekend binge-watching the whole series.

A fantastic depiction of a young woman catapulted into one of the highest positions on earth and struggling to marry the detachment her position demands with her personal self.

Quite apart from the superb acting, magnificent settings, costumes and demeanour, this works merely as a deeply personal story of Elizabeth, Philip, Margaret, Peter, Churchill and many more...all depicted with honesty and precision. The scene where Churchill is forced to come to terms with his great age and frailty had me in tears. I also ached for Margaret and Peter.

It will be easy to dismiss this from a Republican standpoint, but for anyone else, it is mesmerizing.

This is one of those movies I was merely too tired and lazy to turn off after a very hard week's work.

Lots of gratuitous shots of young female bodies getting (un)dressed, the usual complete lack of shading (the good are supremely good, the bad are fiendish), the torturous build-up the rape scene which seemed to be regarded as worse than the friend's killing (!)... could go on. I'm sure Aaron Paul looks back on this choice with great embarrassment.

The ending is obscene in its cynicism , blithely showing the "good" doctor as being no better than the "evil" enemy - utter garbage (note that I didn't chose the word rubbish to avoid American readers having to consult an English dictionary).

Trump voters should love this. In other words: Avoid at all cost.

A stumbled on this watching Netflix.

It turned out to be highly entertaining, very little to do with actual Middle Eastern societies, but an amusing portrayal of the glamour, brutality, shallowness and calculation of - Hollywood today.

Beautiful frocks, doe-eyed glances, two conflicted yet forceful main men and lots of gunfire (sadly so far, no car chases) abound. A meek, peaceful paediatrician finds his family roots and turns into a reluctant killer, while his testosterone-driven brother rapes and plunders at will. A corrupt US Embassy official schemes and manipulates in the background.

No real information is given on the historical background, the rule of women or life of the two children in their new surroundings. But hey - once you view it as an Amercian soap ,it's lots of fun. Just reach for the popcorn and turn off your brain - you'll be fine.