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5 Stars from Lucy Mangan! My Brilliant Career review – a joyous heroine lights up this rare and beautiful period drama
theguardian.comu/Icy_Warning531 — 8 days ago
Auckland is finally getting grown-up city subway, and Kween Kong was beautifully featured
Such a great thumbnail photo, she looks majestic descending into the beautiful Karanga-a-Hape station
u/Icy_Warning531 — 11 days ago
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My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to love | Australian television
This looks really good.
Except - I have major reservations about Christopher Chung's acting and his new millennium abs. Maybe he'll be better in his native Australian accent though.
u/Icy_Warning531 — 12 days ago
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CBGB (2013) has a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and they are wrong!!
I think it is a quiet little film which beautifully honours both Hilly Kristal and Alan Rickman. All the critics did what critics do and had a big moan about how it doesn't speak to the cultural impact, blah, blah but that is not the point, all the big acts are peripheral to the story of the people behind the creation of this important community in the squalid little part of a decaying 1970s NY.
All the big acts are peripheral
u/Icy_Warning531 — 24 days ago
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Grey Granite 1983
For fans of the more obscure. 5 minutes in and I was already down. Starts off with a pretty intense, but lyrical voice over, but soon settles in. Really good pacing for a period-period drama. Has a lot, really a lot, of Scots dialect, but it is very slow for Scots, and you can get most of the meaning from the context. Sample dialogue includes "Malagaroused by a cat and forsook by a jade". Her cat scratched her, and her hired help didn't turn up. That character is the one who speaks with the most dialect though. Fun, but still gritty.
u/Icy_Warning531 — 3 months ago