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Director: Gerard McMurray Rating: 4/5 Burning Sands is a new film on Netflix that tackles fraternities on US campuses. In the case of this film, the focus is on black fraternity called Lambda Tau and applicants also call it brotherhood. These brotherhoods are a black equivalent to white fraternities. What is common to both types of…
Director: Mary Mazzio Rating: 5/5 This film has also been on Netflix for a while, but I watched it now. A must watch for everyone who opposes human trafficking (and I hope everyone does). Unlikely for other similar films, this one does not just narrate stories of victims but also shows a legal battle that victims…
Director: Tommy O’Haver Rating: 4/5 This film has been on Netflix for two months or so, but I only watched it now. It is certainly worth watching because it tackles an important issue. That important issue is secularism. Thus, in the US it used to be mandatory to pray in schools and morning prayers were…
Director: Ron Scalpello Rating: 4/5 My Name is Lenny is a new film on Netflix based on a true story. Thus, we follow the life of Lenny McLean, one of Britain’s bare-knuckle fighters famous for his notorious aggressiveness and brutality. However, the film does not project just the aggressive behaviour and fights. It also goes…
Directors: Jacob Kornbluth and Sari Gilman Rating: 5/5 Saving Capitalism is a new documentary on Netflix, discussing the book Saving Capitalism (see about the book here) written by Robert Reich. The author of the book also features in the documentary, which is made as a tour with him on his trip around the US to present…
Time traveling lovers wait no more. A great new series on time traveling is on Netflix. This series comes from German production and it has no subtitles. Thus, you will find yourself surprised at first when you see characters moving their lips differently than what they are actually saying. However, you get used to it…
Dynasty is a Netflix’s remake of a popular soap Dynasty. Many of us grew up with this series and even though I liked original dynasty when I was a child I had nearly no interest in watching the remake. Therefore, the series came to its seventh episode before I watched it (for blogging purposes only).…
Director: Alex Israel Rating: 1/5 SPF-18 has been on Netfix for a couple of weeks or so now, and I watched it last night. I honestly do not know what to say about this, because there is sadly not that much to say. The film barely has a story, and as if this is not…
Director: Kirk D’Amico Rating: 3/5 Holiday Joy is a new film on Netflix, and the story surprised me. I did not pay attention to the title of the film when I decided to watch it, but to the description. In the description, it said that the grass is always greener on the other side so…
Director: Bette Gordon Rating: 2/5 The Drowning has been on Netflix for a while and I had it in my list, but I haven’t watched it until last night. The film is from 2016 but Netflix advertises it as 2017 and the film has been added a few months ago or so. Regardless of the…
Director: Dee Rees Rating: 5/5 This film is a heavy one, but it is certainly worth watching. In this case, Netflix is showing us a story of Blacks in Mississippi during and right after the WWII. In that, we meet two families and learn about their lives, with black family renting the land from the…
Director: Alex Zamm Rating: 4/5 I watched this yesterday on Netflix, and what attracted me to the film was its focus on a journalist. Unlike for many other Christmas films that focus on family, giving etc, this one tackled undercover journalism practice, something known to me for I have done it once long time ago…
Director: Mike Flanagan Rating: 5/5 Gerald’s Game is a new film on Netflix based on novel by Stephen King. It is a really interesting film showing importance of facing the past and overcoming trauma. Therefore, Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino) and Gerald Burlingame (Bruce Greenwood) are going to a romantic getaway weekend in an attempt to…
Directors: Roxanne Benjamin (Don’t Fall) Karyn Kusama(Her Only Living Son) St Vincent (The Birthday Cake) Jovanka Vuckovic (The Box) RATING Overall experience: 4/5 The Box: 4/5 The Birthday Cake: 4/5 Don’t Fall: 2/5 Her Only Living Son: 1/5 This new film on Netflix is really something. It is a series of four short horror films and each…
This series arrived on Netflix in September but I did not notice it until last night. Interestingly, both seasons arrived at the same time and even though this is Netflix’s original series we are not watching it on a weekly basis like Star Trek or Riverdale. I knew instantly it would be fun, I was…
Sinner is a new series on Netflix. I started watching it last night thinking I will watch it over a few days, but as it turned out I could not let it go and I watched the whole season in one go. In this series, Cora (Jessica Biel) abruptly kills a guy at the beach…
Director: Mahesh Dattani Rating: 4/5 This film has been on Netflix for a while, but I haven’t watched it because I really need to be very relaxed and in the right frame of mind to watch a film that is not in English. The film is clearly a low budget one, which is visible in…
Director: Ritesh Batra Rating: 4/5 New film on Netflix is a really interesting one. It is very slow, but in a good way. It is a story of life and things that happen to everyone and this film shows that beautifully. The message of the film is also to stop caring what other people think…
Michelle Kenney, Harper Collins A few weeks ago, an email came through the Leeds Beckett’s University mailing list, one of many, announcing that our alumna has published a book and asking us to sign up for a raffle to get a free copy. Naturally, I once again thought how amazing our University is for always…
Salvation is a new series on Netflix, and I have to say I really enjoyed watching it last night, because it is very much different from the programme I normally watch. In a good way. I was never a fan of action but I am a fan of sci-fi and investigative programme. This series belongs…
Director: Toa Fraser Rating: 4/5 New film on Netflix offers a story of a six-day siege of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980. The story is not fictional for this event really happened. This is the main reason why I watched this film, as I am not normally a fan of action films. The…