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More web-series reviews – this time Nature 😊 Surviving Paradise – Came out in 2022.  Okavango Delta, a vast oasis, isolated from the rest of the world by unforgiving desert. It's also a refuge, built and maintained daily by its inhabitants; in return, it caters for their every need. Big cats may appear to reign here, but in reality, the fate of every creature, great and small, is intertwined. One of the reviews from IMDB...   Netflix usually has a tough time being tough-it frequently cuts out rather than observe violence. Perhaps in a family-kind way, it repeats that pattern to a lesser degree in Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale, in which directors Matt Meech and Renee Godfrey take a year on the Okavango Delta of the Kalahari Desert to trace how prominent animal families survive the hostile home. As motifs go, this survival doc goes as far as it can, to a successful degree, to hammer home that survival for the cons...

  More web-series reviews… Beef – Came out in 2023.  After an incident in a parking lot, road rage ensues resulting in a bitter feud between the two antagonists. The vendetta between them and the lengths they'll go to to avenge themselves on the other spirals out of control, jeopardising everything and everyone in their lives One of the reviews from IMDB... "Beef", created by Korean director Lee Sung Jin, encapsulates a certain malaise within the needy, insecure and gratitude-seeking millennial generation to which the two protagonists belong, Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Amy Wong). It's a desperate need to overcome the dullness of being average, or conquer the delight of having the final word through childish acts of revenge or behind the shield of smartphone screens, modern props to our struggle for existential meaningfulness. Jin knows how our mentalities function and It's all fitting that I was ...

 Some interesting documentaries… Still – A Michael J Fox Movie – Came out in 2023.  Follows the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, exploring his personal and professional triumphs and travails, and what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease. One of the reviews from IMDB... Still was warmly and enthusiastically received at the SXSW Film Festival. An overflow crowd gave the film and its subject a standing ovation. Unlike your usual Hollywood Biopic, Still is an inspiring story of young, and perhaps somewhat superficial, movie star journey from celebrity to hero. The creative presentation shows the present-day disabled Fox struggling with the consequences of Parkinson's Disease and uses that as a jumping off point for his telling the story of how we went from struggling actor to mega Hollywood star. Then it journeys through his diagnosis with Parkinson's which he initially h...

More web-series reviews… Blue Lights – Came out in 2023.  Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers. One of the reviews from IMDB... Here we are 25 years after the Good Friday agreement, and after watching the BBC'S latest crime drama Blues Lights, you would be hard pushed to believe anything has changed since the troubles. Whilst the British army may no longer patrol the streets and car bombs are not going off every 5 minutes, there can be no doubt the underlying tension between Catholic and Protestant communities remains and sadly always will. Blue lights is the story of three rookie cops, who after basic training, team up and patrol the streets of Belfast. With the IRA is still a dark menace in the city mostly through organised crime and in particular drug running. This is not your local Bobby on the beat stuff you see in the UK. It is bulletproof vest wearing firearm trained...