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Locke
Apocalypse Now
LOTR
Pandorum
Becoming Jane
Atonement
Legends of the Fall
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Star Wars (first trilogy)
Terminator I & II
The Road
The Thing
Se7en
The Hurt Locker
Ordinary People
City of God
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Sophie's Choice
The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Unthinkable
The Departed
The Warriors
The Silence of the Lambs
TV:
Battlestar Galactica
Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
Vikings
Penny Dreadful
Agatha Christie: Poirot
Qi
Some favourite documentaries:
BBC Planet Earth
Anything with Michael Wood
Anything with David Attenborough
The Frankincense Trail
Walking with Monsters/Dinosaurs/Beasts
Taxi to the Dark Side
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
BBC History: Cold Case - all episodes
Bettany Hughes: Ancient World series
BBC Time Team - Liked most of them
Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father
Immortal Egypt -Joann Fletcher
The Spartans - Bettany Hughes
Reviews
Hawkeye (2021)
I was looking forward to this but
After the first two episodes I'm very disappointed. I was expecting the series to be about Hawkeye - Jeremy Renner - not some teenager. I should have known that Disney would want a kid friendly show but this series is a great injustice to the acting talents of Renner.
Gangs of London (2020)
Okay, but....
The actor they have playing the lead role doesn't have enough charisma or 'weight' to carry the role. His acting is weak, and every time he's on screen he looks to me like he thinks he's Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders. He isn't. His role in this series should have been a secondary one, as it is in Peaky Blinders.
Snowpiercer (2020)
Don't bother
I watched episode 1 and was bored almost the whole way through. The detective has no charisma, he's certainly no Chris Evans. The premise of a detective trying to solve a murder is age-old. Why even bother? Did they really think it would be different, and interesting just because it was set on a train? Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is 100 times more intersting.
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)
Dreadful!
I didn't have high hopes for this from the beginning. The writer deserted the original Penny Dreadful, which was excellent from start to finish.
I've never liked Natalie Dormer and this new 'thing' - I won't flatter it by calling it PD - only confirms that. The show is boring, there isn't any atmosphere or horror. Do the people that made this know what a Penny Dreadful was? They seemed to in the original series but not here. Though I didn't have high hopes for it I'm still disappointed.
Making the Cut (2020)
Giving it a 7 for Heidi and Tim
But the show has problems. My first one is why would you feature designers that have already 'made it'? ( Except for Sander, who I loved.) Why not give the chance to designers that really need the help a show like this can give them?
Another problem, the judges are featured too prominently, and much as I love Heidi and Tim, I don't want to see them gallivanting around whatever city they are in. Please go back to making it about the designers, and their skills. I don't mind that a seamstress was given to help them, but some of those designers had zero sewing skills! Come on!
Next in Fashion (2020)
Good, but....
I haven't finished the season yet but I am liking what I have seen so far. My only complaints are that it's too hectic and we don't get to see enough of the designs themselves. I also feel that they should have a better judging system, kind of like what Project Runway has, where there are different criteria to be met and voted on. Also, can't they afford to have the runway show in another studio? I feel sorry for the poor designers who are pushed to the back of the room every runway day.
The Innocent Man (2018)
Should have been a lot better
I rated it 7 because the content is important, but the execution was terrible and that would rate a 5.
As so many others have said, the jumping back and forth between cases is very confusing and detracts from the subject matter which is, or should be, of great concern to Americans. The music is awful, and at times drowns out what is being said on the audio tapes. I couldn't make out what anyone was saying half of the time. I was frustrated at the end because there was no clear cut resolution. I know life is like this at times, but I felt so sorry for Tommy and Fritz.
Falling Skies (2011)
any good sci fi out there
I've never written a review about anything before but I feel the need to write one about this in the hopes that the next time someone decides to do sci-fi/post-apocalypse, it will be done better. First off, as someone else said, there is no sense of dread or fear whatsoever. People walk around everywhere, you hardly see any aliens at all except for a fight thrown in now and again that the humans always win and a couple of the background extras get killed in. Second the plot - oh the plot! Who wrote this series? A teenage boy on the weekend?
Everything revolves around Tom and his family and the other humans are shown only in relation to the Mason family, or as background decoration or cannon fodder. Episode after episode: Tom,Ben, Matt, Ben, Hal, Tom, Matt - you get the idea.
I am a big lover of all sci fi and post apocalyptic themes so I have kept watching this because I have read reviews where people say it gets better, well I am on season two and past the half way mark and it hasn't. I'm so desperate right now for any good sci fi series that I keep watching and hoping. My advice: if you haven't started watching it, don't bother. Mr. Spielberg - what happened? You used to be so creative.