Reviews

I deeply enjoyed the first five seasons of House of Cards. Excellent acting and storytelling.

Without Kevin Spacey, however, the series is dead to me. He was the heart of the show, and I am not interested in watching a headless chicken stumble around before it finally dies.

Best actor: Monument Valley

Best actress: Colorado River

Best director: Nothern Arizona

Best writer: Southern Utah

Best drama: Sunset showdown at Canyonlands

Best user advice: Bring sleeping bag (for two)

Anything else worth mentioning: Nope!

After three seasons, it is about well time for me to call it quits.

The story taken from the books is actually quite interesting, but they could not have chosen a more boring & annoying way to tell the story. Good visuals, granted, but that is it. The whole rest is utterly forgettable.

No sense of humour present, at all. Character development went from cardboard to stencil in all these years. Acting not worth mentioning.

It is beyond me how this show can get such high ratings on IMDB. Alas, to each their own I suppose...

Bottom line:

If this show were a car, then one could change the tyres whilst driving it!

This is Nine-Oh+ material, ladies and gents.

In other words: my girlfriend did not fall asleep.

Initially, I was quite hesitant to watch this remake of the original 1974 "Death Wish". You know, the typical "remake alert". Hallelujah, I was in for a surprise!

I am sure, Charles Bronson would have been equally fantastic in the remake as Bruce Willis is, but the entire storytelling of the remake was so much more streamlined, the timing was just perfect, the music score awesome. Well, simply a good example of what miracles modern film and TV show production can manifest - if the right miracle workers are tasked to do so.

Kudos, and thanks to everybody involved for this most riveting entertainment! :-)

Just finished season two, which I enjoyed just as much as season one.

Perhaps, a bit too densely packed with individual story lines, which means one has to pause the show before pouring oneself another glass of wine. It's easy to get lost in the various sub-plots.

The acting, however, is outstanding! My favourites: Margo Martindale (can't get enough of her), and Giovanni Ribisi (he simply knocked me out on "My Name is Earl").

Photography, atmosphere, storytelling, production; all great and a pleasure to watch.

Looking forward to season three!

UPDATE: I was not aware this movie had a black agenda before watching it. Now, that I am realising that this is just another "pitch black people against white people" movie, I am rating it down from 3 to 1. Bon appetite!

This flick has a few good moments, but is drags on and on and on. I'm all in for story development, but this is just painfully boring. You'll sit through 100 half-napping minutes in order to get to the final conclusion.

Do yourself a favour, and watch "The Invitation (2015)" instead.

Bizarre, absurd, crazy, nuts, and totally over the top!

Christopher Meloni really nailed it. What an awesome performance.

Story telling & TV production par excellence - THIS is how it is done! :-)

Beautiful mix of the classic "space adventure into the unknown" theme, lightheaded humour, likable characters, seriousness, and self-irony.

Nice and interesting writing, except S01E03 which was way too much leaning toward this SJW nonsense. Just watched episode seven, though, and shed tears over the brilliant lines and acting.

The acting is lovely, charming, and funny. They seem to have good chemistry on set.

Bottom line: if you like "The Next Generation" with a strong dose of humour, and less moral high horsing, then "The Orville" should be right up your alley. If not, then, please, go right ahead in the other direction and get yourself an STD.

Bon Appétit. :-)

Sleek looking. 'Nuf with the compliments.

I only made it to episode five, in what presumably will be the very singular season one of this show, because I do have a sense of humour. It's laughable.

The writing regularly makes me toss and turn on the couch with cramps in the abs from laughing out loud in disbelief. The acting sees me bury my face in my hands from time to time, shaking uncontrollably while giggling like a little school girl.

I must admit, I only keep watching the show to find out what daft and crazy ideas they are coming up with next. They call it a "story line", I believe. Or, actually, I don't.

Although, this show is a must-watch if you are about 12-14 years old, and interested in so-called women who are called Michael, gay crew members, annoying & embarrassing young feminists, and a lot of actors who are generally looking into the camera like deer on a night road facing the headlights of a car.

UPDATE (after episode 6):

I wish I could still laugh about this disaster, but I simply cannot stand the sight of the dumb smug face (and silly hair style) of this Michael Burnham character any longer. That young ginger makes my toe nails curl, too. As does Captain Psycho, and his top science lunatic.

Where in the heavens do they find these actors? Did they offer to work for free in order to get on the show?

End of story: I'm in permanent need for "Star Trek: Recovery" now (they call it "The Orville").

Hard to classify this movie, after watching it at the New Zealand International Film Festival just a few hours ago.

Humorous? Certainly. In some moments even hilarious. Yet, this movie has some very u-boat layers to its seemingly light-hearted making-fun-of-arts theme. Even though it is tempting, I am not going to be an artsy-fartsy-smartarse trying to deliver a holistic explanation of this flick (all I'm saying is: "Swedish society" and "human nature").

The acting is superb and sometimes massively ("Oleg-style") impressive.

My only criticism is that the movie is too long. Clipping some minutes here, and some minutes there, would have streamlined the viewing experience.

A complex movie. Recommended to watch whenever you have some spare brain capacity at hands. ;-)