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  1. Influencer [2022]

    While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, a social media influencer meets a follower, who travels with ease and shows her a more uninhibited way of living, but the followers interest in her takes a darker turn. A thriller filmed mostly in Koh Samui, an OK second rate effort with forgettable, shallow characters, a metaphor for influencers perhaps.

  2. Ted Lasso [2020 TV series]

    Follows an American football coach Ted Lasso who heads to the U.K. to manage a struggling London premier league football team. Whilst this came out as a winner in the 2021 Emmys after the first series which drew attention, series 2 and 3 becomes bogged in sentimentality, virtue signaling and loss of direction. Series 3 is just cringe worthy awful and hard to watch. Enough.

  3. The Hunt for Raoul Moat [2023 TV Limited Series]

    A true dramatization of the police operation in 2010 to apprehend fugitive Raoul Moat in the UK. He went to Northumbria after killing one person and wounding two others. The story is mostly known already so there are few surprises to be had, the performances are okay, but there is not much else going for this series really and questionable glorification of a killer comes to mind.

  4. The Bay [2019 TV series]

    A fictional police drama series now completed series 4 in 2023 with a change of characters and new story, centered around a family liaison officer. Solid easy to follow crime fiction with good character development and unexpected surprises. Set in the picturesque Morecambe bay area. Good if unexceptional story-lines mean a season 5 is coming next year.

  5. Enys Men [2023]

    Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. From the director of the splendid Bait [2019], this is not quite as special but still entrancing for its art house horror feel.

  6. Ten Pound Poms [2023 TV Limited Series]

    A group of Brits leave post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on an adventure. Nothing more than a dumbed down soap opera for the 50's with writers struggling not to overdo the cliches of the period. Too many subplots for us to care about but light entertaining fluff if you really must.

  7. To Leslie [2022]

    Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption. Some fine performances in this low budget indie drama out of Texas. Worth seeing.

  8. Three Thousand Years Of Longing [2022]

    A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. A Djinn in need of a tonic someone said. Not far off the point, this is a dull tale with some arresting visuals at times but meh. The title almost a metaphor for how long it feels to sit through this fantasy. The lead is good value as always however but needs better.

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  9. A Man Called Otto [2022]

    Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around. Routine family entertainment, over kills the predictable feel good melodramatics, ultimately ho-hum.

  10. The Gold [2023 TV Limited Series]

    Drama series inspired by true events surrounding the 1983 Brink's-Mat gold robbery, one of the UK's largest ever robberies, and the remarkable story that followed trying to find the trail on money. Entertaining 6 part crime drama, good performances, memorable musical soundtrack from the era. 

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