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Release Date: 31 March 2017 Venue: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: Rupert Sanders Rating 4/5 This film is certainly not a waste of time for it has something for everyone, i.e. some good action, as well as some thoughtful comments on humanity. In the near future, humans are able to upgrade themselves with robotic features to…
13 Reasons Why is a new series on Netflix. It has 13 episodes and I just finished the fifth one (within the same day, as this is not a series one can easily let go). Needless to say, I will be doing a speedy watching of this series. As the series is quite powerful it…
Rating: 5/5 This film was recently added on Prime, and it is certainly worth watching. I have to say I haven’t seen a film addressing love in such an imaginative way for a long time. In other words, the film addresses love from philosophical, ethical and an emotional point of view. Therefore, we follow a…
Rating:4/5 This new comedy released a few days ago addresses poverty in the US in a way I have not seen yet. In that, the film combines a sad reality of two girls left to fend for themselves with humour and a happy end. The reason Deidra (Ashleigh Murray) and Laney (Rachel Crow) are left…
Released: March 2017 Venue: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: James Mangold Rating: 2.5/5 In season one (episode 21) of the mega popular US show Friends, fake Monica tells real Monica that when she watched the “Dead Poet Society” she said to herself that those two hours of her life were the ones she lost forever. While…
This film presents an exaggerated version of an event that has happened to many people, i.e. being robbed and the feeling of violation that burglary has caused. In this film, a depressed nursing assistant Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) debates how she felt when she discovered there was a burglary in her house, and that her grandmother’s…
Netflix has recently launched the Ultimate Beastmaster show with competitors from six countries. In the first round, competitors competed for becoming the beastmaster and then they will continue to the ultimate championship, i.e. 10 of them. Sylvester Stallone is one of the producers of the show heavily advertised to Netflix’s audiences around the globe. It…
Imagine a guy who is trying to blackmail you to have sex with him, and you eat him. Literally. First you bite two fingers off, and then continue until villain is gone. You must be asking yourself, what she’s on about in this blog. Well, I felt the same when I saw all first episode…
I noticed that many people ask what series to watch, and surprisingly some of them never heard of some of my favourite series. Some lists and blogs give advices on what to watch and my series are not there. It will be quite possible to argue that series I list do not encompass series listed…
iBoy is a Netflix’s film released in January 2017, and the film carries a typical Netflix’s signature of science fiction, i.e. one of the reasons I love Netflix so much. No other programme provides gives so much on science fiction and especially not in such a diverse way as Netflix. This film presents a story…
This film gives a beautiful insight into psychological issues people face after trauma, and as such could easily serve as an educational material. However, the film is more than that. It is also an unpredictable and surprising story, which will satisfy many film lovers. The story portrays a psychiatrist Dr Jane Mathis (Vinessa Shaw) who…
Coin Heist is a film that narrates a story of a group of teenagers who are trying to save their school by stealing from the U.S Mint. In that, they created a unique coin they are trying to secretly produce during the night to raise money for the school, so that they can still have…
I read the second book I received in #SaveTheCulture Initiative. This one was more interesting than the first one, I have to say. This was also the first time I got hooked up with a book I did not enjoy. In other words, this book is so dark that you hate it, but you can’t…
Yesterday I watched “Labyrinth of Lies”, a German movie originally released in 2014. The version with English subtitles was released by Amazon Prime in 2016. The film is a really interesting reflection on true events that happened in 1958 Germany, when the population was still refusing to face the past and the horror of WWII,…
Last week I purchased a film from the Sky Store, one of those not yet widely available. As I watched two other Purge movies, I took the third one. I expected lots of negativity and naturally I was not disappointed. However, the Purge also brought a positive side to the story and a positive representation…
I received the book from the #SaveTheCulture initiative I saw on Facebook. I wrote about it already in my previous blog post (see here). The first book came from Nairn, and this was my first stage of learning something new, because I never heard of Nairn before so I had to google it. As it…
In times when some people go to elections to choose hate over hope and collaboration, a beautiful initiative emerged on Facebook. The initiative is a chain where we send one book we love to a stranger, and get some sent to us by other strangers. In this initiative people from all over the world send…
There has already been a growing debate on John Lewis traditional Christmas campaigns, seen as the most expected marketing event of the year. The excitement goes that far that some are already wandering whether we can again expect an emotional campaign from a popular British retailer. The date has already been announced, 11th November is…
Netflix started to broadcast second season of its series ‘Touch’. The series has already been broadcast in the United States (where it ended in 2015). In the UK, the first season of the series was broadcast last year (just that I did not see it until this year), and yesterday we were able to start…
For those of us who love the Big Bang Theory, Sky has turned out to be a quite handy subscription as they started to broadcast the 10th season. For me, this came in the perfect moment as I just finished watching the 9th season on Netflix. For those who are not watching the series yet,…
It is well known from previous blogs (see here and here) I am a fan of time travelling and series that portray social relations, and I will watch everything that offers those types of story line. Clearly, this preference has led to a strong attachment to Netflix as they indeed offer a lot to time travelling lovers like…