Take a look at the 15 movies you'll be hearing about in fall 2024.

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Take a look at the 15 movies you&#39;ll be hearing about in fall 2024.

From popular franchises to brand new worlds of exploration, science fiction and fantasy stories are more popular than ever. Check out our list of the best and brightest new and upcoming movies and series.

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An immersive expedition into the remarkable biodiversity, captivating landscapes, and fascinating human stories along the Amazon, Mississippi, and Nile rivers.

Ecstatically, exquisitely beautiful, but still with some shortfalls

Having caught the episode on the Mississippi, I now come to the one on the Nile, and it seems we are back in familiar territory - in every sense, with elephants and crocodiles, hippos and camels to the fore. And there we have things in a nutshell. In theory, a series with this title could make no reference to animals at all, yet in the main this was &quot;an animal programme&quot; and even at times looking a bit traditional in style, if of course utterly gorgeous on a big-screen TV, in a way we could only have dreamed of 30 or 40 years ago. In a sense, this is reassuring. I watched nature programmes decades ago showing how the Sudd Swamp in Sudan was threatened, yet somehow here it still is - filmed and still looking pretty remote, as do the Ruwenzori Mountains (which sadly feature for about half a minute, albeit amazingly snow-covered), the Murchison Falls, Lake Victoria and so on. In each case, the impact of humankind we see here is (other than in Cairo) rather limited-looking. The series innnovates with it&#39;s mini-interviews with those who live and work along the rivers and depend on them (full marks for that). Ecological details are not entirely lacking, and that&#39;s good too, though there is definitely not enough of this. But sadly, David Oyelowo does not have an especially exciting script to read, and does not make the best of his opportunities even then. To be honest, I am not sure how best to make a programme entitled &quot;Earth&#39;s Great Rivers&quot;, but I guess I would have to begin by sugesting that the Nile deserves at least 3 episodes. Where we are reduced to one the overview we get is inevitably limited, and the temptation to make it a series of &quot;sketches&quot; mainly (though not quite only) featuring familiar animals presumably proved too hard to resist. A slight pity that something a bit more subtle could not have been achieved here.

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Earth's Great Rivers

Really enjoyed the wonderful camera work and interesting information about the three great rivers. The little film at the end of each segment about the work that went into the filming was also very informative.
Whilst David Oyelowo is a very good actor his narration skills are somewhat lacking, halting and lacklustre would be the best description .

This BBC nature series has three episodes; Nile, Amazon, and Mississippi. It highlights both the human and animal worlds. Mississippi has more human world. Quite frankly, that river is the most developed and human activity is unavoidable. The other two are more of a mix. The Nile has much more animals. The Amazon is more half and half. The cinematography is as beautiful as ever and I did learn new things. By traveling down these rivers, there is a better appreciation of the waterways as a whole. One is traveling down the river like Huck Finn. David Oyelowo&#39;s narrations. Sounds good with a hint of British accent. There is a future series listed as Earth&#39;s Great Rivers II.

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Earth's Great Rivers

Ecstatically, exquisitely beautiful, but still with some shortfalls

Excellent filming very poor narration

going down the river

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