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Topsy and Tim (2013)
They listen to their Mummy and Daddy
My niece says she rates this 10 out of 10 because they listen to their Mummy and Daddy. One is smaller than the other. She learns a lot from Topsy and Tim, lots of interesting facts. She learnt how to look after a pet. She likes the theme tune as well, it is very happy and makes her feel happy. She's always singing along and dancing with them. The show makes her happy and she can't wait for her little brother or sister to arrive so she can play with them like Topsy and Tim. They always wave to their friends and are very kind. They are well mannered, always saying sorry when they do something wrong.
Frenzy (1972)
Hitchcock goes cockney
After decades of legendary Hollywood movie-making, Hitchcock returned to Britain having made a few less well-received efforts (such as Topaz and Torn Curtain) in the latter part of the 1960s. Being his penultimate film, expectations would not necessarily be high prior to viewing this, even for a Hitchcock fan. What the viewer gets is something truly different from anything else Hitchock has made.
His early English films bring to mind refined English accents. Not so here. Virtually all the characters are proper working-class cockneys. Not only that, but the reduced censorship of the 1970s allows Hitchcock to make his most gruesome film. The old Hitchcock touches are still there (a wonderful up-the-stairs camera shot, for instance) but there is a little nudity and some disturbing sounds (not to give too much away).
Most importantly, Hitchcock maintains his traditional suspense as well as ever, but this time in a grimmer context than before. The customary humour is still apparent, especially with regard to cooking (very relevant given Britain's poor reputation for cooking). In fact, Frenzy is such a triumph that it may well be in Hitchcock's top ten movies - and that is saying something.