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The Undeclared War (2022)
Extremely accurate.
Lots of negative reviews on here. However, having worked in IT and s/ware for many years, I have to agree with reviewer hoytyhortyhorty, it is startlingly accurate. I even took the clues and hex and broke it down myself. Lots of IT people use W3W these days and that was fairly obvious for many people.
Red Hat Linux or whatever version they were using was spot on with everything in the command line code but that would mean nothing to almost all on here. The point being that it was very believable and my wife, who can't tell between any differences in computers or anything IT thought it was really good too. I thought sh'd be bored stiff with it. Anyway, really looking forward to Series 2.
Normal People (2020)
My first 10/10 for anything
I started watching this after a friend told me he'd just finished it. I watched six episodes yesterday and the final six today. Brilliant actinG, storyline, characters and so well written by Sally Rooney. I even fell in love with Marianne myself 😉 Can't wait for series two and there should be many awards for both the actors and the series itself. Definitely a 10/10.
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
On it's own, this episode was worth the whole TV licence fee
Prior to the start, I was thinking that this episode would not live up to some of the greatest TV seen in the UK despite the previous episodes being fantastic. How wrong I was. My summary line says it all and for those of you that haven't yet seen it, it's a must. I have too many superlatives to mention for this series and particularly this episode.
Out of curiosity I looked on Twitter when it had finished, only to find that it was the No.1 trending topic for about two hours. People tweeting like mad for there to be a series 3 were not disappointed as the writers held us in suspense too, revealing about half an hour after this episode had finished that series 3 had already been commissioned at the same time as series 2.
Looking forward to the next tranche of episodes and I hope I don't have to wait too long.
Quote from the series Sherlock Holmes: Shut up. Inspector Lestrade: I didn't say anyth — Sherlock Holmes: You were thinking. It's annoying.
Brilliant!!
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Go see this film!
I could eulogise about this film all day and articulate positively about it until the cows come home. Gary Oldman as George Smiley is brilliant and I'm sure he'll get an Oscar nomination for his portrayal and could well win it. He's calm but positively threatening at the same time. If you saw the Alec Guiness TV version of TTSS and thought it was one of the best spy thrillers you've seen then prepare to be taken to a higher level with this film.
I read the book four times, saw the TV series about three times and am already planning to go see this again. I won't go on anymore just suffice to say "Go and See this Film!" you will definitely NOT be disappointed.
Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie (2007)
We loved the original and this sequel is even better!
My wife and I used to watch the original every new year but gave up a couple of years ago. Watching of film evry new year became a tradition in Russia many years ago as it put people in the party mood because of it's New Year's storyline and romance factor.
We found the sequel recently and have just finished watching it (again) and have to say this is absolutely brilliant. We lent it to some friends a few weeks ago and they enjoyed it so much that they went and bought their own copy which even their friends have borrowed. It's great fun, great laughs and great irony. We consider it deservedly gets a 10/10 in our family's books.
Sezon tumanov (2009)
Extremely good film
I started with much trepidation as some Russian films are a bit thin on the ground with dialogue and the plot/screenplay itself. However, the film itself is very enjoyable and unlike many films these days is a bit more in depth with both the character's roles within the film and the way the film plays out the plot.
The English village and surrounding countryside has been well selected from a locational viewpoint and is populated by some village residents that bring a smile to your face with their bantering between each other. The village idiot who is clearly barking mad is also quite amusing in his own small way. I highly recommend this film.