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Beyond Paradise: Episode #1.3 (2023)
It's too early in the series for such a dumb plot
It doesn't bode well for the series when the third episode has such a stupid plot.
I want this series to do well as we enjoy Death in Paradise (even after 11 series), but this won't last if they carry on like this. The acting is good enough, but the writing in this episode was execrable
Got fed up once the painting has been stolen (before they all "found out it was gone") and went and watched the last episode of Endeavour instead, now that had some writing!
Again there are no six hundred words I can find to describe something with so little to write about. Thirty-four more words to go-go La.
Neurotica. (2019)
Also known as Eureka!
This is also known as Eureka! By the company Dust. If you want to see this in it's shorter form then search for "Eureka Karen Gillan" on youtuba.
It's a short and funny idea, about a short and maybe not so funny idea.
Karen Gillan makes it funnier than it would be otherwise although the other main character does a good job as well. Everyone else is fine for their role, especially the woman who stars in the Golden Arm movie.
I'm not sure what else to tell you as six hundred characters is quite a lot of explanation for a short film that is only approximately twelve minutes long itself. Goodbye.
Poker Face: The Stall (2023)
Turning into another Columbo when I had such high hopes
I love the lead actress (Russian Doll is one of the best TV series there is and she's a major reason for it.) but this is turning into Columbo and I couldn't stand that series.
I want a mystery I have to try and work out, not to know what's going to happen and then watch someone be ever so clever and work it all out, that's just dull. I scrobbled through most of this episode from before the murder even happened as you could write the rest of the script yourself.
Natasha Lyonne is still great, but I'm not sure how much I will continue to watch if it's all going to be like this.
...and leave the poor dogs alone, that part was unbearable.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Elysian Kingdom (2022)
Really, filler like this in the first season!
The kind of episode that makes you pick up your phone/tablet and start watching anything else, even cat videos! My wife ridiculed it all the way through whilst drinking gin and doing a jigsaw (we are old Ok), her commentary was better than the script.
Moonfall (2022)
There was a good movie in here somewhere
There was a good movie in here somewhere, but they managed to Hollywood it as usual.
I Enjoyed Bradley's acting, took me a few minutes to place him from GoT, he was the best actor in the movie.
The stuff with the moon and it's mystery was interesting, all the nonsense on the ground was paint by numbers silliness, and if the moon ever really got that close there ain't no comeback!
One for a boring afternoon with a drink in one hand and a book in another so you can ignore the dumb parts.
Star Trek: Picard: Penance (2022)
Q and another Mirror universe - the two worst things about Star Trek
I loathe Q stories mainly because of the actor, and Mirror universes - yawn yawn yawn.
I enjoyed series one, I'll be playing this at x2 speed and watch with one eye whilst doing something else.
The Toll (2021)
Low Key and Brilliant
I loved this movie, great acting, twisted storylines and some dark laughs.
I don't understand why it's rating is so low, some people have no sense of humour.
Stowaway (2021)
What a waste
Good actors and good effects wasted on a dull and slow script. It should have been a half hour long.
More characters for the website, and some more too.
Landscapers (2021)
Wonderful
Very funny black comedy. I laughed more at this than most "sitcoms". Top notch acting from all as well.
The real world clips at the end of the first episode show that it really did happen this way.
Wolfe (2021)
Excellent, roll on series two
Ignore the whiners, it's fun, different and takes itself just seriously enough. There is an interesting arc across the series as well as the individual episode plots.
Foundation: Preparing to Live (2021)
First episode great, second episode boooooorriiiiinggg
Forget whether they stayed within the book plot or not (they didn't) but they wasted half this episode on blah blah blah nothing interesting to see here. If I wanted to see a dull romance I could have watched Hallmark instead.
This is the same issue that killed Jupiter's Legacy, slowing down the plot from the original source, changing things unnecessarily, adding dull and pointless secondary plots and generally ssttrreeeeeettccchhhiiinnngg it all down to dullness*. It's not like there isn't enough source material in the Foundation series for many years of TV.
Didn't anybody learn from GOT and Loki? Keep that plot moving people!.
* Also done to the original Marvel series of Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Daredevil. They were mainly dull.
Professor T (2021)
Perfect
Ben Miller is wonderfully bonkers and plays it just right. Highly entertaining. Recommended.
Voyagers (2021)
How did this script make into a film?
I don't comprehend how this laughable plot got given any money.
There are so many good science fiction ideas - this is not one.
50 percent blame to the director and fifty percent blame to anyone who greenlighted this project.
It looks fine, but what a waste.
Marcella: Episode #3.1 (2020)
Shark jumped
No longer interested at all, this should be a different series not Marcella.
The Stand (2020)
Multiple time sequences are great, obviously too much for simpler folk
I haven't read the book so I have nothing to compare it to, but the story telling in flashbacks/flashforwards makes this far more interesting than a straight forward redo of a book.
Enjoying it immensely so far (two episodes).
Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020)
It's funny
This is amusing stuff. You don't need to be a ST geek to enjoy it, but it will help with getting the most out of it.
Gawd, Star Trek fans are humourless based on reviews here!.
Never forget that Star Trek/Wars/BSG/Farscape etc. are second tier sci-fi and not on a level with written sci-fi (and I exclude novelisations of the above) or adventurous and clever film/tv like Arrival, Raised by Wolves, Dark, Legion, Westworld, Annihilation (read the books) etc etc.
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Doesn't stand the test of time.
There a a few funny bits, but re-watching this (Covid boredon) didn't make me laugh more than twice, cringe far more often and fast forward a lot especially the Kung Fu spoof.
Hackers (1995)
Very silly, but what a Soundtrack!
Plus it's fun spotting the cast members when they were so young!
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Not bad - but Will Ferrell is too old
Quite funny, Will is too old for Rachel McAdam. Great to see Graham Norton in a movie.
Cloudburst (2011)
Wonderful
A charming movie, very funny with a real heart to it. Olympia Dukakis is just brilliant as the foul-mouthed 'best friend' (granddaughter is not too bright!).
H Is for Happiness (2019)
Absolutely Charming
A wonderful kid's movie that parents should enjoy too. The two main child actors were perfect. A great story with laughter and sadness, but mainly laughter.
The Control (2018)
Don't.
Just don't. Dribble badly acted and edited. No, nope, nyet, nein, non.
Gone Girl (2014)
Didn't care for the book and the film is no better
Same problems as the book, the first half goes on too long, and every character is unlikeable.
The Comic Strip Presents...: Les Dogs (1990)
Surrealism and Comedy
Well this is one barking mad episode! How they managed to convince Kate Bush to act in it I'll never know, but she does well enough.
Time Apart (2020)
Gentle Aussie romance with touches of comedy & science fiction
A movie in the same part of the shopping aisle as About Time but with less comedy and not so famous actors, but still well done for it's limitations and I presume a small budget.
The lead actress is good and there is no bad acting or badly written script and all the other departments do their part well.
Not a movie for the young or those with ADHD, but good for everyone else.