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It's weird that this is listed as a comedy. Teenage drama, with coming-of-age elements, mystery and superheroedom. With a nice touch of gore. Good stuff. Seven short episodes in the first season, with a teaser at the end for the mystery to be solved.
4 years ago
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Fascinating. The first and second episodes play around with the roles of the various characters, but have fine atmosphere and strong performances and were really interesting. The third episode is confusing at the start, but that gets sorted after a while. But it has more of a quirky SF feel, and finishes on a note which was utterly unconvincing.
4 years 2 months ago
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The link still works. A nice little film, very funny with a surprising premise.
6 years 3 months ago
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If you have Netflix, do check out the new Netflix Original Season 3 of 2016. Six episodes, and very much up to the standards of the first two.
7 years 4 months ago
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Magical realism with an Australian flavour
9 years 8 months ago
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Gone from earlier links. Now here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12myzt_labirynt-jan-lenica-1963_creation
10 years 6 months ago
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Previous link dead. Now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbOLSY3sX9g
10 years 7 months ago
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Decent copy here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfBz2rhIR4g
10 years 8 months ago
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Now here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_PwHspiv4
10 years 8 months ago
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http://vimeo.com/63298718
10 years 9 months ago
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Thanks benhere, that made it comprehensible, and very smart. Quite the inversion of what would stereotypically been thought back in 1927.
10 years 9 months ago
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Now here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iawvV6USsAQ
10 years 9 months ago
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Excellent short film!
10 years 11 months ago
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And, of course, the overlooked source on which Mel Gibson's remake was based.
11 years ago
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This is a Monty Python short that was run before The Life of Brian at cinemas in the late 1970s. I sat there appalled when it started, and then tumbled to the joke. Hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFWo1oqZTe4
11 years 4 months ago
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It's kind of weird, trying to put yourself into the middle-class mindset of 1955 in order to experience the menace suggested by this movie, but it is worth the effort.
11 years 4 months ago
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Fairly interesting horror piece, with a rationalist under voodoo assault. Or is he? Photography and pacing clearly under a Hitchcockian influence.
11 years 5 months ago
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This is a powerful WW2 movie about military command.
11 years 6 months ago
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Pure cynicism. Lovely!
11 years 7 months ago
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Nicely done short dark comedy, held back only by the lead not quite being convincing.
11 years 8 months ago
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You are in the wrong place! This is a German movie. The one you really want is the fine Japanese anime movie Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Castle in the Sky). Go here - http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/tenku+no+shiro+rapyuta/ to tick the right one.
11 years 8 months ago
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A very decent little end-of-the-world thriller.
11 years 8 months ago
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Clearly Dick Merrill was a great pilot. But the movie would have benefited from having someone else play his role.

Still, an interesting little piece on early aviation.
11 years 8 months ago
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A comedy that's very clever, and brilliant work from Peter Sellers. But ultimately it's pretty depressing.
11 years 8 months ago
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Neat little drama. Lot's of British pre-war stereotypes, but bit of a morality tale on group think and gossip.
11 years 8 months ago

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