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An architect is diagnosed with a rare eye disease, entering him into a surreal reality in which he sees people’s true motives. As the visions become intolerable, he falls for a mysterious woman and confronts the truth about his own identity.
From Amazon Prime you can stream this 1 hour 48 minute complete film. Characters and acting are well done. However, at times it may not be completely clear what is happening.
If you watch this film, let me know your take on the ending.
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A horrific double murder shocks two families living in isolated rural Scotland. In the aftermath of the tragedy, they are faced with a terrible dilemma when the murderer arrives on their doorstep one stormy night. His fate lies in their hands – will they show mercy or get their revenge?
From Amazon Prime you can stream the 4 one-hour episodes of the only season available for this British murder story. Hiding guilt is the main theme of the series. Familiar British actors include Juliet Stevenson as Louise Elliott and John Lynch as Bill Douglas.
Well worth watching.
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“Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies, while Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped to his belt with which to spray his ear when it gets hot. Into their life of ‘users’, pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a spunky can-do career gal who doesn’t know one end of a laptop from the other. Can she introduce real life to men who email the fire brigade in an emergency, who invent a psycho for an internet dating site and display sympathetic PMS symptoms once a month? ‘The IT Crowd’. It’s more than a way of life, it’s a sitcom. ”
From Amazon Prime you can stream 5 seasons of this British comedy series. Seasons 1 thru 4 contain 6 episodes. Season 5 seems to consist of only 1 episode. Each episode lasts about 22 minutes.
UNFORTUNATELY Amazon makes you pay for the privilege of watching these episodes. Originally I watched them for free on Netflix. Keep a lookout on other streaming sources for the chance to laugh a lot at these quirky characters.
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Sarah Hadland (Miranda) and Russell Tovey (Him & Her) star in this ensemble comedy about a West Midlands job center, dealing with work – or the lack of.
From Amazon Prime you can stream 3 seasons of this British comedy series. Each season has 6 episodes. Each episode lasts about 22 minutes.
Looking for a few good belly laughs? If you like British humor, this is the comedy series for you. Among the many actors Russell Tovey stands out not only for his comedic skill but for his ears which stick out so far you think that at any minute they might flap and he will fly into the air.
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Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.
From Kanopy and Amazon Prime you can stream this 35 year old comedy which lasts 1 hour and 50 minutes.
Needless to say, if one of the actors is Steve Martin, we are probably talking about a comedy. Michael Caine is the perfect matchup against Martin.
Old but still lots of fun and plot surprises.
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A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist’s patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
From Kanopy or Amazon Prime you can stream this 43 year old film starring Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson.
While watching this vintage film, I was struck by how young the actors were, how sexually daring this film must have seemed way back then, how acting has changed, and what a good story and plot shock the film still provides.
Give this piece of film history a try.
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Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
From Amazon Prime you can stream this 2 hour 35 minute complete film. Another version of “Silent Hours” exists which is a series.
Follow the complicated clues interspersed with lots of sexual flash backs. Why are serial killer stories often so intriguing?
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Ibrahim falls in love with Alexander, a handsome German show-wrestler that turns out to be a criminal. An impossible friendship develops that surpasses both of them. Passion and crime in a charming buddy-movie and bromance from Berlin.
From Amazon Prime you can stream this 1 hour 15 minute film made in Germany. Watching is free provided you can stand the intermittent commercials ( so-called “freevee”). In German and French with subtitles.
Ibrahim is gay and Alexander is a straight homophobe. Despite Alexander’s best efforts at avoiding Ibrahim, over and over Ibrahim saves Alexander from one tight spot after another. As far as I can tell, their final relationship is a non-sexual close friendship which turns Alexander into an honest businessman.
Enough comedy and warmth to make the film worth watching.
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In Season 3 of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jack races against time and across Europe to stop a rogue faction within the Russian government from restoring the Soviet Empire and starting World War III.
From Amazon Prime you can stream season 3 of the Jack Ryan series. Season 3 consists of 8 episodes. Each episode runs between 45 minutes and an hour.
Continuing in the view of the first two seasons, this series treats us to one action event after the other. Along the way the cast of characters and their loyalties keep changing in possibly confusing rapidity. Flashbacks are vital in explaining the motives of the various actors in the plot.
Among the many good performance I would award a prize to James Cosmo for his portrayal of Luka Gocharov.
Expect 8 hours of constant excitement and possible confusion.
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A lonely, obnoxious young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.
From Amazon Prime you can stream this 1.5 hour comedy.
As a perfect foil to Ben Affleck’s millionaire Drew Latham is James Gandolfini’s father-of-the-family Tom Valco. Affleck as an exaggerated comical focal point is a departure from his other films. He is actually quite successful in the part, as is Gandolfini (who, unfortunately for us, died in 2013.)
Everyone’s reaction to comedy is personal, but this film worked for me.