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A Glenbrooke Christmas (2020)
Actually Pretty Good for a Christmas Movie
In the run up to Christmas I watch a LOT of Christmas Movie's. Most are cheesy, some are terrible. This one's actually pretty good. The actor's don't act like this is their first acting job, the setting is fun and it's all together a pretty watchable movie.
Would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who's a fan of Christmas stuff.
For more detail - the main charachter is the heiress/CEO to an important corporation and ends up travelling back to the small town where her parents used to live to relax and take some time in small town USA before taking over as CEO at the family firm. Along the way she meets lovely small town people & has a revelation.
Black Mirror: Playtest (2016)
Intense and terrifying
One of the rare pieces of horror that is self aware enough to keep you guessing. The main character "knows" there'll be a jump scare so there is but then it throws you completely off and takes you in a direction you weren't expecting. The ending is a genuine mind screw that has you questioning the whole episode and while I can watch most horror's as background noise, this one grabs your attention and keeps you guessing regarding where it's going.
What was real in this episode? I ahve no idea but I'm glad I spent the time watching this as it's a real mind screw where the main actor has done a great job with.
Agatha Raisin (2014)
No idea what I just watched
Found this programme flipping through the channels and I have no idea how anyone can find this good. Weird "slapstick" comedy that adds nothing, a police force so terrible they should be disbanded and weird outfits. Just a generally strange programme all round.
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
A Ridiculously good film
This is a ridiculously good film. No spoilers, just watch it - it's well worth the 90 minute run time. This is probably the best zombie film ever made and everyone needs to watch it!
No Time to Die (2021)
Great action, weak story
The action scenes are fantastic - the story is weak. Rami Malek is a poor villain with no motivation whose henchmen are far better, however I'm glad I saw it in the cinema as the action scenes were amazing. Would have liked it to be s bit shorter as it definitely lags in the end but was a very good end to Daniel Craig's time as Bond.
A Christmas Wedding Date (2012)
I have no idea what's going on
Literally no idea what this film was about. Something something Christmas in the sun & then Santa turned up & danced for some reason.
It's a strange & thoroughly forgettable film that didn't even make coherent sense but sure, it's probably groundhog Day at Christmas once again. Weird film, didn't even work as background noise.
The Outer Limits: In the Blood (2001)
Pregnant Women are Magic Apparently
That is the entire premise of this episode - the universe is alive and Pregnant women can communicate with it. Also something to do with "destiny" and Native Americans.
The entirety of this episode was summed up by the main characters line "maybe it's because I'm pregnant, I don't know".
They threw a lot of ideas at the wall in this episode in the hopes that something would stick and it didn't come out great. There was too much going on for the acting to save it and too many tropes for it to make sense.
It filled 40 minutes of background noise while I filled out some insurance forms but that's about it.
The War of the Worlds (2019)
Exciting start, let down by the rest
I usually let bad series lie - people have worked hard on the shows and deserve to be left for people to make up their own mind. This series, however, was hyped for so long by the BBC that I felt I had to watch it. What followed was an incredibly poor adaptation of one of the greatest novels ever written.
It started great - mystery abounds when strange things land just outside London and people die, then suddenly hard jumps to the future thereby removing all tension about whether the main characters live or die, then jams in some weird romance plot for no reason where people have to make very 21st Century decisions and then goes off in some even weirder direction as a sequel hook.
Pro-tip - the HMS Thunder child in the book is supposed to be the most advanced warship the navy has put into service and made a heroic sacrifice to save the civilian transport ships it was protecting - it's the most memorable part of the book so why does every single adaptation feel the need to skip its inclusion entirely?
Unfortunately this series is let down at every stage and the ending is clearly there to try and encourage the execs at the BBC to commission a second series we'll never see. Overall desperately disappointing!
Father Brown (2013)
Gem of a TV show tucked away on daytime TV
This is a gem of a show that is tucked away on daytime TV. In the spirit of Jeeves & Wooster with its fete's, strawberry scones and rose tinted memories of days gone by, it seems hidden and wasted on daytime TV. Keep making them BBC, it's classic TV which I hope the cast sign up for many years to come!