My new all-time favorite film, I really enjoyed watching this little gem and this film truly showed Godard's genius for showing the human condition. We get introduced to the main character of the film Nana, a typical example of the aesthete character, she is petty, cruel sometimes, mostly concerned with herself, given to bouts of sentimentality and extremes, which she later regrets again. She becomes...
My first attempt to really watch this anthology show, not completely finished yet, but I get a really clear picture what makes this show so popular in the public imagination. There are in my opinion 4 elements that make this show stand out. First there is often times high quality of storytelling found in many of the episodes, this may change from episode to episode, some are little masterpieces on...
Now I don't have a thing for Bollywood and normally wouldn't bother watching Indian film or tv-shows, the culture overall is just to strange and alien, but when I found this series on the Internet Archive I was almost immediately hooked. This production of Ramayana is really like nothing that can be found in the West, we have feudal drama's, heroic epics and some Christian and Arthouse films go an...
I thought this would be a cruddy Hollywood pandering to Appalachian people and since it wasn't taking place in Appalachia it wouldn't be any good. Â But as an Appalachian who has been stuck outside of Appalachia so much of his whole life in Indiana the movie boomed in me. Like I feel so out of place with modern society outside of Appalachia and my soul hurts every day I see Appalachia changing for...
This mini-series is often credited as one of the best ever made and that's for a good reason. A grand pastiche build around a writing of detective novels who ends up in the hospital suffering from a skin-disease and hallucinations, what follows is a story that moves around from a hospital comedy, to a satirical crime story, to snippets of the writers painful childhood, back to lipsynced musical numbers...
I found the show incredibly enjoyable and funny and interesting. Each episode of the series has a lot of intrigue and even in the first episode it is over the top and funny. It doesn't push a lot of annoying politics down your throat trying to make you feel one way or another about things. It does include a homosexual marriage which sucks and it also includes a little but of girl boss and man emasculation....
I am starting to love Zeitgeist and it's search functions more and more, I keep finding hidden treasures and this film is certainly a treasure! This film has now become one of my favorite comedy films of all time, yes... I was expecting to find a generic 90's comedy film, but it's in fact a hilarious Italian slapstick. What makes this film so absolutely hilarious is that it combines two elements,...
A wholesome, sweet and delightful film for all ages, from the Silver Age of Disney's family films, this one hits all the right spots, the town, it's inhabitants, Pollyanna's cute and sincere demeanor, you walk away feeling much better and looking at life with brighter eyes. The plot is simple, a young orphaned girl, with a warm heart, meets the inhabitants of a town and in her innocence changes their...
Where should I start? I watched the first season of this series well over 2 years ago, at the advice of a good friend and from the very beginning I was hooked. The show starts with a moody country song and from start to finish you get pulled into a dark gothic detective story, about ritual murder, the meaning of religion, nihilism, drug gangs, romantic relationships all playing itself in the sweatier...
I will keep this review short, Once Upon a Time... Man, or in my native Dutch Er Was Eens... De Mens is one of those old childrens tv shows that got produced by a lot of different European countries to share the cost and it still is a fun series to watch. Though there are a whole bunch of different once, about science, history and even one with a scifi theme, this is the first one and still one of...
Two oddballs, one a deadpan stoic (Hyneman), the other a hyperactive geek (Savage) use their experience and knowledge of technology too test a number of urban myths, can you get electrocuted when you pee on a railroad? Is it possible to throw a rotting pig carcas in a car and then actually clean that car? Can you build a boat from ductape? this and a hundred more question are asked and then tested...
A bizar, spectaculair, over-the-top and slightly bad allegory of a load of different social and cultural topics that where brewing in the West for decades. Zardoz is a very unique film which wont be as enjoyable if you arent looking for message behind the story, though the strong 60's counter-culture influence of the film atleast gives it character. The basic story is that of actor Sean Connory playing...
I have noticed, on and off, that a lot of people i've met have seen and liked this film and its not very difficult to understand why, even though this certainly meant to be a (clever) feminist and progressive film, the girls adorable, goofy and evil personalities end up making the girls appear cutsy. The story, which isnt there is that the girls decide that because the world is depraved, so will they...
A fun little British comedy, its the story of Stanley Moon, who we would call an incel, a small and socially inept little man, who is madly in love with a waitress (Eleanor Bron), but because he is too shy and has nothing else to life for, he decids to kill himself, when that fails the devil shows up and offers him 7 wishes.
What follows is a hilarious comedy, full of dry British wit and snark where...
A calm and slow moving Dutch film that follows the slow build up and planning of a raid against a German occupied prison by the Dutch resistance in 1944, during the film we see the life in the German prison, the prison inmates, we move from the homes of the resistance members to offices and torture chambers and we get to know several of members really well. In the end its the support and the unity...
The very first production of Black Adder, though not as polished as the latter "seasons", this one still seems to capture my heart and make me roll with laughter. This great British comedy plays during the time of Richard the III, of a kingdom for my horse fame, with a few allusions to Shakespeare and historical events. What makes this comedy so great are the actors, Rowan Atkinson plays the infamous...
The second series in the Black Adder saga is in many ways an improvement on the first, Rowan Atkinson is far more intelligent and witty in the second series, with constant degrading and sarcastic remarks, he makes the story far more intelligent and adds a certain amount of drama, you dont always want him to fail and your root for him against the idiots that surround him. The second star of this series...
Dragnet is the great-grandfather of many modern crime shows, the black-and-white show was an attempt to create a serious, matter-of-fact crime show with an eye for real police work and procedurals. Something the show succeeds in plendidly, during the episodes we follow Joe Friday played by Jack Webb while he and his partner interview suspects, think of ways of catching the crooks, etc most of the...
Watched this documentary yesterday, after browsing through a streaming site, I noticed the name Werner Herzog, so I knew I was going to get something delightful. The documentary does not disapoint, what we get is a religious journey into Chauvet cave, one of the oldest and most beautiful of the prehistoric painted caves, guided by choral music we slowly descent into the chambers and witness horses,...
An old show from my youth that still gives me fond memories, from watching it as a child. The Legendary Journeys is a mostly wholesome, funny and warm-hearted slapstick show that plays around is a loose and ahistoric version of ancient Greece. Hercules played by strongman Kevin Sorbo, looks and acts like a big family dog, defeating his enemies in hilarious choreographed slapstick fights, the silly...
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