Reviews

Fried green tomatoes is without doubt one of finest movies ever to come out of Hollywood. The script is top notch, the cast superb and the production lush and expensive. I've seen it maybe a dozen times now and it never gets old. The gay elements are obviously very subtle considering the era it was made but still present and very poinient. The tackling of racism and the realities of the American south blend beautifully with the overall story. Jessica Tandy is mesmerising, Kathy Bates superb as usual, Mary Stuart Masterson and MLP are fantastic. The film is realistic, engaging and funny when it needs to be. One from the golden age of cinema.

I don't understand the criticisms that Anne Rice would not like this adaptation. If the critics did their research they'd know that Anne died at the end of 2021 and was involved in the production as EP, as was her son who is still involved, so she definitely signed off and apparently wanted aspects that would have been controversial when the film was made included, mainly the gay aspect between Louis and Lestat.

Overall the production quality is high, something we have come to expect from AMC, the acting is also very strong and the script engaging.

I've only seen ep 1, but i'm pretty impressed so far.

Is it set in 1982 or 2002? Because AIDS was not fatal in 2002, the cocktail treatment was available for at least 5 years then. Also that camcorder would have been pretty expensive in 1982, especially for a poor family.

An informative look at one of the great humans of the past hundred years.

It's reasonably entertaining to watch, although feels super forced in places and too scripted, as other have noted Bourdain this is not. Also Gordon is British, English to be honest, although he claims to be a Scot, that obviously is not the case as anyone can hear, so he needs to stop using American words, it's highly irritating when you hear a European call football "soccer" and a BBQ a grill, stop it Gordon.

To be honest I had low expectations, because both TG and GT were quite frankly pretty banal. I've always liked Clarkson and his brand of caustic wit, albeit not the majority of his politics (brexit aside, he's thankfully a remainer, although fails to criticize his friend "call me dave" for the mess). Here though he really "did a thing" showing that farming is both hard and pretty thankless, people need to realise this and the show really propels that message. Of course there are scripted moments, though they're much less obvious than they could have been. Gerald is hilarious, and Kaleb is a such a breath of fresh air, showing that there are young people in the UK who really have their head screwed on properly, with his drive and work ethic I wouldn't be surprised if he's a millionaire in the not too distant future.

Compared to that awful dross that they made with Hammond and the bloke off mythbusters, this is really good TV. I can only imagine what Amazon is working on with James May, because he's the real talent among the three.

Did anyone think to get an English person to sign off on the sets and props? Firstly the accents are false on the UK actors and criminal on the north Americans. English schools do not have flags in classrooms and unless this was some fundamentalist religious school, the teachers would not be priests or be teaching religious nonsense. Americans need to understand we don't really like religion in Europe as a whole, even if we do we certainly keep it quiet. A local policeman would not talk like an Oxford Don and would not drive a Jaguar xj40, those were were traffic police, he might turn up in an Austin metro or a ford fiesta at that time. The total lack of care in regard to athenticity is just lazy and inexcusable.

Cheap, awful acting, nasty production. Typical christian film, who watches this dross?

Happy valley is HBO level prestige TV, the acting is top notch, the storylines gripping and tight, and the script superb. This is the kind of TV we expect, but rarely get from UK production.

I didn't think it was possible, but they actually made the spin-off better than the core show. Despite the fact It's so slow and nothing ever really happens in the space of less than 3 episodes, it's just so mindbogglingly compulsive. Of course that's down to the superb script and faultless cast. Quite simply one of the finest TV shows of all time IMHO.

Where to start with this one? Terrible, atrocious, convoluted, confusing, poorly scripted, false. Probably one of the worst films I've had the misfortune to watch, it's definitely one where you think "thank god i didn't pay to see this". The people who made this shouldn't be allowed within 50 miles of a film set.