I’m slowly getting into this show. The first episode was a sudden entrance into the storyline, but I’m still interested. Personally, I would’ve liked a bit more character development. But considering how much rave this series got, I’m willing to stick with it.

Excellent follow up to the series and yet another reminder of both the loss of Michelle McNamara and the utter sociopathic nature of the Golden State killer right up to his final sentencing. Good too that this is shining a light on the Oak Park police and their odd refusal to illuminate the unsolved murders and rapes that took place under their watch.

Another Studio Ghibli Japanese animation classic that sadly remains under the radar - imagine an Earth First style group of magical racoons in a war with human Tokyo developers and their struggle to stop their land being destroyed.
Sounds bizarre but its such a well told story with incredible animation.
The version here is an English dub version and while I prefer the subtitled orginal, I have to admit, it is well done.

Great weekend viewing! One of the Studio Ghibli films that often gets overlooked, which on one level is understandable when it has to compete with Spirited Away, Ponyo or My Neighbour Totoro for attention, but it has its own charm, especially the way it reminds us just how magical life can be.
As another comment points out, the ending is a little corny but unless your soul has been totally devoured by cynicism, it leaves you with a smile and a reminder of the intensity of first love.

Anyone watched this yet? Any thoughts?
The Göbeklitepe temple has always fascinated me ever since Linda Moulton Howe brought it to wider attention a while back.

So far this has been a pretty interesting UK true crime series with a focus on partner murder (though the episode broadcast order is wrong) and I’m glad I ignored the sensationalist programme title and the terrible fonts used for the title and gave it a chance. I think what strikes you the most is just the inability of some people to deal with rejection on any level.

The season in its ususal downward trajectory, not that there has been much upwards action either.
The Killdozer reference was the sole highlight of this episode - great film and equally great band!

Excellent UK cult film, shot in black and white with a strangely noir feel about it despite being entirely shot in late 70s England - the music soundtrack really makes this film with Kraftwerk’s Autobahn taking centre stage.

There have been a number of UFO cases involving landings and entity sightings near schools over the decades, in places as far flung as Africa, Wales and this one in sixties Australia. The documentary is very well done and regardless of your own particular belief system, the fact that it left such an impression on the consciousness of the witnesses is evident by their adult recollections over 40 years later.
I’m very sceptical of UFO documentaries that ‘reveal’ the ‘truth’ behind the mystery and happily this is not one of them.

“This original series…” nope, this one has you beat by 4 years…
https://www.primewire.li/tv/165642-watch-evil-lives-here

This is such an excellent true crime series, given its focus on those who survived the brutal murders of loved ones. This episode in particular really brings home the consequences of being a witness to murder and its lifelong effects. Sad beyond words.

While there have been at least two adaptations of the Swedish TV scifi series ‘Real Humans’ (UK and Russian) that I know of, and while both have their own charms, nothing beats the original show. While fans have been waiting years for a third series, here’s a chance for anyone who missed it first time around to enjoy a very well acted and original scifi series.

So funny! The image of Wile E. Coyote getting squashed like an accordion will keep me smiling all day. Kudos to the uploader for posting this gem.

Fake season 17 premiere episode, its the old first episode of season 16 but has an air date of April 19th 2021.
Reported it.

Another classic Disney animation that has far more going on plot wise than just the spaghetti scene it’s famous for - though in fairness, it’s eons since I last viewed it but I am definitely glad I gave it another watch.

Interesting UK true crime series with cameras following different murder cases as they unfold. If police procedures, forensics and the voices of the victim’s families interest you over the more sensationalist aspects of true crime then this series is well worth watching.
Thanks as always to the uploaders for making the series available.

I sometimes forget just how good certain films are and 30 years on Silence Of The Lambs remains a pure classic from start to finish. The performances by Jodie Foster & of course, Anthony Perkins, combined with the storytelling genius of Thomas Harris have been seldom matched in recent years.
If you haven’t seen it before, or even if its been a while, this is definitely one for the watch soon pile. Likewise, if you enjoy audiobooks, it can be found unabridged on YouTube and its worth a listen as readers of the book will know.

Never come across the case of the unlikely female multiple murderer Dorothea Puente before and this two part series does an excellent job of explaining her crimes - it includes multiple perspectives from the cop who opened the case up, the social workers who placed the victims, the coroner and lawyers from both the prosecution and defence - and most importantly, testimony from one of the victims family, which allows us to hear about who they were and makes the story both more human and more tragic.

I don’t say it often enough but thank you to those who keep Primewire going. It’s a treasure trove of films that fire up and route the memory circuits to long forgotten pleasures, and in this particular case, my childhood love of The Rescuers! 78 minutes of truly great animation, narrative and songs that went by in a flash, from a time when a Disney film was worthy of its name.

In my opinion the three greatest short films are Chris Marker’s Le Jetee, Alain Resnais’ Night And Fog and Albert Lamorisse’s The Red Balloon. Curiously, all three films are French and yet are so different in genre, style and subject matter, but all three are worth watching back to back to give you a sense of what is possible in just over 90.minutes of film making, the length of an average film.
However, if you’re looking for a single film to make you smile, The Red Balloon is for you.

Podcast fans who listened to the ‘Chameleon’ series, a thoroughly twisted tale of ‘the Hollywood Con Queen’ (who had numerous low level entertainment industry types like stunt artists, make-up artists and wannabe script writers conned into flying all over the world and investing their own money with the belief they’d been hired by Hollywood and Indonesian film producers to take part in major films) will recognise the players in this episode about the con.
To do the convoluted but compelling story justice they needed at least two or three episodes to tell it as there is so much more to it and if you haven’t heard it then its well worth a listen.
This series started off really well but it’s gone downhill along the way, almost mimicking the mechanics of a con itself.

File under strange, groovy and slightly bonkers!

Sadly though, over fifty years later and Mr. Freedom is still around, he just wears better suits and the bombings and invasions are now strictly for humanitarian reasons :)

Disco fans maybe interested to know that the late San Francisco music artist Sylvester of Mighty Real fame began his career in the wonderful anarchic troupe The Cockettes and is featured in this film to great effect.
This is such a wonderful life-affirming documentary on one of the most creative, demented, messy and psychedelic manifestations of the counter-cultural movement in late 60s/early 70s America.

hey! what’s with all these wierd new changes here!? mI Loved the old ones. what does that funny box with an arrow sticking out mean??

If everything you know about the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the subsequent conflicts between Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia is based upon mainstream Western media reports, then you will be surprised to hear that there is a different way of viewing these historical events and the Weight of Chains documentary does an excellent job of taking a very complex subject and providing clarity.

Awesome! Thank you so much!

Excellent documentary by the legendary film maker Frederick Wiseman - after watching his most infamous film Titicut Follies, I’ve tried to see all his early films and Juvenile Court has always been hard to track down, so many thanks to the uploader.
It’s interesting that documentary film maker Nick Broomfield also made a film about the juvenile court system a while later here in the UK called Juvenile Liason and though it was made in 1976, it was banned by the police and judicial system for 15 years. In many ways both films are very similar and at times make for difficult viewing and I very much doubt any documentary film maker today would be given similar access in either country.

The IMDb score needs to be updated from the 7.4 to its current and no doubt continuously descending 4.8 (I’m guessing the first score reflects the director badgering her contacts and possibly creditors into hijacking the score system and the current one which reflects 400 odd people assuming the film couldn’t be that bad) - listen to etim’s comment above and one review that states “it is the modern-day Plan 9 from Outer Space” except that does a total injustice to Ed Wood and the ‘so bad it’s good’ B-Movie of old.

Thanks to the uploader who has posted a couple more episode links to this UK true crime series. The three episodes that are up are all harrowing cases of female murder, preceded by domestic abuse, coercive control and a failure of the authorities to act prior to their deaths.
Though all the cases are different, it is striking just how similar both the predatory males and their female victims are in terms of behaviour, psychology and the helplessness of friends and family to intervene.

The best Vintage Disney cartoon.

Ignore the IMDb release date of 1984 as this came out in 1970 and like Cronenberg’s Stereo from the year before, this is well worth a watch.
There was something definitely in the air around this time with very different ‘big name’ directors creating films that have a similar unsettling dystopian vibe such as George Lucas with THX 1138 and Stanley Kubrick with Clockwork Orange.

An absolute TV classic of the paranoid conspiracy mystery genre and yet it seems hardly known about, even compared to other 90s classics like Dark Skies or Oliver Stone’s Wild Palms never mind the X-Files.
As a UK viewer it only came across my radar in the first wave of file sharing in the early 2000s and I was totally hooked - kind of a cross between the The Prisoner, Parallax View and the Twilight Zone.
Kudos to the uploader for making the series available on PW as I’m sure more episodes will be going up shortly.

Never understood why this gets such a low IMDb score - a story of class based snobbery and revenge against a backdrop of wonderfully camp London disco scenes, a brief detour into Parisian decadence and a cracking disco soundtrack. Maybe it’s the barrage of advertising through film posters and albums that I devoured as an adolescent in 1978 which at the time seemed so mysterious and forbidden, but along with its sequel ‘The Bitch’ I do have a soft spot for The Stud.
PS > the ‘adult material’ tag really reflects the state of British censorship in 1978 and will seem very tame for today’s jaded palette.

I really like this one. I hope they do more of these.

This is actually a very good overview of the American punk mileu. I’m from the UK and I think I was 10 or 11 when I bought my first punk single back in the late 70s and I’m glad I did because it opened me up, not just to an incredible variety of music, but to an entire universe of politics, art,literature, films & drugs as well. Equally though,I bought my first disco record at the same time, but that’s entirely another story!

This was a kids TV series?!? I’d have thought hearing Tomorrow Never Knows, The Beatles interpretation of Leary’s Psychedelic Prayers (which in turn was an interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead) track, accompanied with images of a Mayan inner-world would have left one hell of an impression!
Especially considering this was 1967, it is one hell of an adventurous cartoon - nearly as strange as the Beatles accents which to my English ears sound bizarre.

sigh.. again with the 0 links?

Hopefully she ends up with that guy for good, and they have a long and happy life together, doubt it though. Five minutes into the first episode, when I saw that lady getting on the bus, I thought the show will definitely push the main character and her together in the end, after some bull$hit interpersonal drama. Hopefully that kind of super cliche development doesn’t happen. I wouldn’t even mind if this was it, the end of the show, better end it here, then take it in a tediously predictable direction. If this turns into runaway bride, I’m gonna slap a b&tch.

Excellent eighties UK sci-fi children’s TV series about a disembodied alien intelligence and the consequences of its symbiosis with Matthew, a young English schoolboy as the alien ‘Chocky’ attempts to gift Earth with free energy technology.
Based on a series of books by Day of the Triffids author John Wyndham and though a ‘kids’ TV series, like many other UK science fiction children’s TV series of the 70s/80s like The Changes, The Tripods, Sky, The Tomorrow People and Children of the Stones, it never dumbs down and given the budgetary constraints of the genre, it privileges the imagination over special effects.
Fans of the theme song may like to know that the track is by John Hyde and is taken from the 1982 library music album Red Kite by Astral Sounds and was originally called ‘Coral’.

Looks like there is no stopping the painful trajectory into utter banality.
I started writing down examples of the intersectional circle jerk aka the writing team came up with for this episode but soon realised I would be quoting the entire messy script.
It is the same with the visuals, representing the exit of a goddess like Demeter with mushy muzak strings and a Disney leaf whirlwind just added another dimension of pain to season three.
What Neil Gaiman is doing apart from banking the cheques is anyones guess.
Oh well, onto episode 7 and the highly unlikely hope of a total change of direction with the only bright spot being the book storyline climax of Lakeside and the identity of who Mr World was calling to report Technical Boy’s glitches.

One of the best and most detailed true crime cases I’ve seen for a while.
There are very few cases that last over a decade and even fewer that are filmed over such a long period.
Given the complexity of the case and the sheer amount of footage, the film makers did an excellent job boiling it down to three 90 minute episodes.
Likewise, using the perspectives of the two tenacious detectives and the incredibly brave daughter of one of the murdered wives to weave the many threads together instead of just focusing on the sociopathic perpetrator himself was very refreshing and unlike say the recent Night Stalker series on Netflix, the detectives didn’t make the case all about them nor did the interviews with the victims and their family and friends feel like they were included just to tick some woke boxes about the voices of the victims ‘been heard’.
This is also a story about the American justice system and how a very intelligent sociopath can use it to their advantage, again and again.
As the prosecuter said at one point, the case is like a movie and after you’ve watched all three episodes, it definitely leaves you thinking that the truth is most definitely stranger than fiction.

Absolutely deranged American low budget psychological horror from 1973 - similar feel to 1971 UK film Girly and one of those films that doesn’t try to be weird or cool, it just is. The kind of film I used to read about in Film Threat and other zines in the pre-internet era, long before I ever came across a VHS copy here in the UK).

PS > left message in forum fix it section about the date - needs fixing as I’m sure I would have passed on it had it not been seared into my deteriorating brain.

Thanks for reminding me to spotlight the Road Runner Classic Shorts from the assortment of Playlists.
I hope all of you enjoy more of these
https://www.primewire.ag/playlist/2378