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Author: Callie Langridge Rating: 5/5 If I could time travel, visiting suffragettes would be on the top of my list. I would absolutely love to meet some of those amazing women who fought for all of us, and because of whom I can be an academic today and have opportunities women of the past did…
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor Mark: 5/5 This is an inspiring true story of William Kamkwambawho (Maxwell Simba) who was eager to learn in Malawi and who ultimately helped his village by building a wind turbine after reading about it in a library book. He read that this is how electricity comes to the USA and insisted…
I already wrote about good series to watch with a time-travelling theme (https://martinatopic.com/2018/01/06/timetravel-top-series-to-watch-1/) and this is the second part of this blog series, with two more series I thought would be of interest to time travel lovers such as myself. OUTLANDER Availability: Amazon Prime This is an interesting series with a time travelling theme. The…
Director: Fab 5 Freddy Rating: 5/5 I saw some other films on legalisation of cannabis and therefore I am familiar with the narrative on who blocked legalisation and who made it illegal in the US in the first place. However, what I did not know is that cannabis originates from the Black community and that…
# 5/5 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott has been labelled as a masterpiece with a very good reason. The book is captivating and memorable, and this is what every writer wants to accomplish with their work but not all writers do. I am giving this book a 5-star rating for the above reasons and…
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…