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Director: Anne Fletcher Rating: 5/5 This is a very interesting film portraying the struggle one girl feels when her mom does not accept her for who she is. In this particular case, Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) is considered fat and thus suffers from body shaming in a wider society obsessed with patriarchal duck face beauty types.…
Director: Deon Taylor Rating: 3/5 I just watched this film, and it really gave me food for thought. It addresses the journalism practice and the issue of masculinist culture in the news industry but also of the exploitation of women that happens on a daily basis and not many cares. The story in the film…
New series on Netflix is a really refreshing story, and suitable for all audiences despite teenager theme. Therefore, we meet Otis (Asa Butterfield) and his mother Jean (Gillian Anderson). Jean is a sex therapist who has no boundaries and cannot accept her boy is growing up and needs independence. On the other hand, she has…
This series is one of my favourite time travel series, and season 2 did not change that. The series is absolutely breathtaking, and I ended up not sleeping until 7 am because I just had to finish the whole season in one night. The season 2 continues with the story from season 1, and thus…
As is often the case, production from Oz always offers something different than the rest of the world. Quite frankly, they often offer better and more imaginative stuff than anyone else; however, this creativity does not come without a downside. In other words, production from Australia is always bloodthirsty and full of nudity. All of…
Director: David Slade Rating: 3/5 After having some issues with PHP code change, which is btw a one-day issue just that I did not have that one day to sort it out, I am finally back. In this particular case, I am back and ready to moan against Netflix’s Bandersnatch! This new film on Netflix…
Homecoming is a new series on Prime, and Prime is clearly trying to get me hooked to their programme. In a nutshell, the series is very well made and certainly different than any other series currently available to watch on any TV or streaming service. The main character is Julia Roberts who portrays Heidi Bergman,…
Director: Gus Van Sant Rating: 4/5 This film is another beauty available on Amazon Prime. The full title of the film is Don’t Worry: He won’t get far on foot. The title would suggest this film to be a comedy, but it isn’t. It is an incredibly deep drama showing how people deal with disability and…
Director: Richard Loncraine Rating: 5/5 This film is another beauty from Amazon Prime. If Amazon continues like this, my blog will no longer be dominated by Netflix only. The film tackles elderly age, and as such gives a beautiful message, that life can be inspiring and joyful even when we grow old and retire. Thus,…
Director: Steven Spielberg Rating: 5/5 Amazon has definitely improved its offer of Prime films. The Post is one of excellent films available on Prime, and I really enjoyed watching it. The film tackles the fight for freedom of the press in the US, during Ronald Reagan’s rule. Thus, the New York Times published secret documents and Reagan’s…
Director: Ben Young Rating: 4/5 This film started a bit slow and I thought it may be a candidate for discontinuing watching. But, no. The film is actually very interesting and has an interesting story. Therefore, if you start watching and then you feel like discontinuing, don’t. There has been a growing debate on artificial intelligence…
New season of Shark Tank is on Netflix, and I really enjoyed it. This season was broadcast in the US in 2017 and we only got it now, but that does not undermine the experience of watching the series. As with seasons 7 and 8 I also watched on Netflix, season 9 also brings plenty…
ReMastered is a Netflix’s new docuseries, which looks at mysteries in the history of music. The first episode therefore looks at Bob Marley and the assassination attempt, which left his friends and fans shocked. According to authors, it is his activism in 1970s Jamaica, at the time in political turmoil, which lead to the assassination…
Mentalist Derren Brown is back to Netflix with another social experiment, Sacrifice. After shocking experiment with the Push (see here) where he convinced some participants to push a man from the terrace to save their own skin and cover up for their mistake, this time Brown is trying to convince a man to risk his life…
Director: Gareth Evans Rating: 4/5 When I saw announcement for this film on Netflix today, I immediately knew this film will be well made and I knew it will be good. What I did not know is that I will shout ‘what did I just saw’ so many times, because I certainly did not except an…
Director: Paul Greengrass Rating: 1/5 This film is based on a true event, when Anders Behring Breivik committed a terrorist attack in Norway (22 July 2011). The attack was committed to murder the leaders of tomorrow, or Norwegian youth that attended the camp promoting multiculturalism. As the film correctly emphasizes, many prominent Norwegian politicians attended that…
Director: Jaume Collet Serra Rating: 4/5 Prime has a good film starring Liam Neeson. Neeson was good in Taken film series and he is good in this film. In this film, Liam Neeson portrays Michael MacCauley, a former police officer now working in an insurance company. One day he comes to work and gets fired out of…
Director: Joram Lursen Rating: 3/5 This film tackles the WWII and the dictatorship of the Nazi regime, perpetrated against the non-Jewish population in the occupied Netherlands. In this particular case, the film tackles the true story of a banker Walraven van Hall (Barry Atsma) who organised an underground bank to fund the resistance movement. The film…
I really should get a tagger’s job for Netflix, since I tend to binge watch majority of their series anyway. But, when was I ever good in making extra cash!? Speaking of binge watching, and just like with season 1, I also binge watched season 2 of this lovely series. While in season 1 (see…
Director: Kyle Rideout Rating: 4/5 This film is a cheerful portrayal of a very serious issue. The issue portrayed is an emotional enmeshment, or a situation in which parent is over-involved with the child’s life by treating child as a partner. According to one of many definitions, enmeshment can be defined in the following way,…
Director: Erdal Ceylan Rating: 1/5 I was excited when I saw this film, and especially because I just completed reading Jon Ronson’s excellent book on social media shaming (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed; Riverhead Books). However, the film disappointed me immensely and this is predominantly because the director never decided whether the film is supposed…
