DukeEman
Joined Oct 1999
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A drug smuggling driver and a mysterious English jihad mercenary soldier (perfect teaming of Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif) reluctantly become partners-in-crime along the Middle Eastern dessert drug mule run, and soon find themselves on the run from warlords, gangsters and secret service authorities. Every character has a mystery in this action packed thriller where after two episodes you wonder where it could go, which is a damn good way to get a viewer hooked and wanting more...
How television's first presenter, Ed Sullivan, changed the very fabric of the USA by having Black musicians appear on his high rating show, opening doors nationwide for these artists during a time of segregation and injustice. There are great performances from James Brown, The Supremes, Jackie Wilson, plus a very young, Stevie Wonder, and even a much younger Michael Jackson with his older siblings. Every great music artist from the fifties and sixties made an impact on one of the greatest variety show. A well structured and uplifting documentary on an influential humanitarian who saw all humans as equal, and never took a step back...
Nacho Vigalondo creates a hyper-surreal series of pure enjoyment, a style certainly needed to tell of Spain's trashy icon, Tamara, a short sensation at the very start of the 21st century. Even more creative - and very brave - is to do it via the supposedly life of those who contributed to Tamara's rise to fame for all the wrong reasons, mainly through the idiot box. A twisted and refreshing retelling of a person's dream used and abused by others (from management to her mother) with their own hypercritical agendas, and makes you wonder if Tamara was the only sane person with true intentions of being a music pop artist...
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