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El conde (2023)
Margaret Thatcher
Well that was certainly one of the more entertaining films I have seen in a long time.
With all the gore, filming it in black and white, took the splash and horror out of it and added to the satyrical theme of the film.
Margaret Thatcher, probably the # 1 member of the Pinochet overseas "fan club"was perfectly portrayed as the ultimate "Femme Fatle' and personification of the evils of the Pinochet regime, with a wonderful twist near the end. I could imagine her booed and hissed in a cinema in Chile, almost pantomime like.
The greed of Pinochet's family was evident though was it true...I don't know enough about Chilean history.
An all round good satyrical film.
Deadloch (2023)
Deadlaugh
Took a while to warm up, the Detective from Darwin was a bit of a handful, but it had it's dark, funny moments....
The plot continually changes as the bodies pile up. Like the series Shetland, so much crime and murder on such a relatively small island. One wonders is it safe to travel to such a destination haha 😂😆.
Half way through, and hooked in already. My go to series at the moment. Prime can be so hit and miss in some of the shows it presents, this is one of the better ones.
Definitely going to persevere to the end, looking forward to the final who dunnit outcome.
Tasmania will be on my travel list...
Travelers (2016)
Took a while
Took a while for me to get into, about 4 to 5 episodes. I wasn't sure if it was going to be a "teenage thing". But it built well and at near the end of the 1st series, I'm hooked. Shades of The Matrix, Star Trek (medical advances), and Mission Impossible, thankfully without Mr. Cruise. Persist with the episodes, let your mind open up, sci fi should do that. It's proving to be a great watch.
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Slow at the start
The 17th century meets Quentin Tarantino. Like a good Tarantino film, it builds slowly, has the characters, has a soliloquy, has an unusual musical score, and at the end builds into a mayhem of revenge and gratuitous violence. A good piece of historical entertainment.
Priest (2011)
A decent 90 minutes
Snowpiercer, meets Mad Max, meets Pans Labyrinth, meets The Omega Man, meets The Exorcist, meets The Matrix. A fun romp through a dark time.
Ad Astra (2019)
A good sci-fi flick
Bradd Pit, lost some weight since the Tarrantino film, meets 2001 A Space Odyssey, meets Apocalypse Now. Great effects, a little bit of floating around in space corniness, but still at times a breathtaking watch.
Tôkyô Joshi Zukan (2016)
An insight into a different culture
Thought it was going to be a chick flick, but instead it was a unique insight into a culture we rarely see. Fortunately each episode was only 20 to 245 minutes long so it was not arduous viewing. It was good to see how people interact with each other. Very interesting.
Black '47 (2018)
Ireland as it really was.
At the start I thought it was going to be a dark depressing view of Ireland at one of its most difficult times in history. How wrong I was. It turned into a beautiful portrayal of poetic justice. Dare I say it could be compared to Outlaw Josie Wales, Irish style. Totally watchable.
First Man (2018)
Stunning
Superb riveting film, with human undertones. Watched it in a cinema in New Zealand. As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, the cinema was rocked with an earthquake. Nobody was going to leave the cinema. Quite a moon landing. On a technical side, not a slide rule in sight, and the moonshot was all pre calculator days.
Sweet Country (2017)
Australia as it is...
A well constructed biographic of epic proportions.