What an episode! The CGI is used to spectacular effect!
Obviously I had to search elsewhere to watch episode 7, but I felt strangely compelled to return and comment on PW as it’s a hard habit to break - let’s hope against hope that this link situation isn’t irreversible.

The 2nd season of Raised By Wolves is the gift that just keeps on giving. The interplay and tension between the organic/technological and religion/atheism is so well done and it makes the show one of the best sci-fi series of recent times.

The story of an ‘offbeat boarding school’ description really doesn’t do the film any justice as this French language arthouse film is an altogether more surreal almost Lynchian affair. There is something very dark and disturbing about this film and despite repeated DVD viewings, its mystery remains.

Another great episode, you can feel the many strands pulling together for the grand finale.

This season, like Raised By Wolves in general, is so well paced and episode 4 totally sets up the grand drama of what’s to come. If you prefer the more traditional sci-fi tropes of technology, sentient androids and AI combined with universal and archetypal themes. (over whatever is flavour of the month in the mainstream media) then this is one to watch.

Very good UK true crime documentary that goes into great detail about the 1990s murder of 13 year old Billie-Jo and the subsequent labyrinthine trials.
It’s definitely one of those rare cases that seems to define the limits of forensic science and the justice system as a whole. It also leaves you with a lot of questions.

I nearly missed the fact this new Sci-Fi Comedy film is by legendary French director Jean-Pierre Juenet of Amelie, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children fame.
Definitely going in the sparkling new and very useful Primewire “Plan To Watch” list!

I was a huge Lost fan but never saw this strange short epilogue until now.
It reminded me what an incredible and unique show Lost was and while I’m so glad there has been no attempt to revive it, I do miss what a joy it was, both watching it and then reading the online deciphering and interpretation of the episode.

Season One was one of best new scifi TV shows of 2020 and it’s good to see its return. If you like imaginative, well crafted science-fiction themes around spirituality, belief, technology and what it means to be human, then there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy this show.
Good, well paced, opening episode that left me optimistic about the rest of Season Two.

Lame title as usual, but as true crime series go it’s not bad at all - interesting cases, especially the second episode.

If you get past the very sensationalist title of this series, it’s actually a pretty good true crime offering and this episode in particular leaves you reeling at what happened to the victims.

Wonderful, Season 3 has finally arrived! If you liked The Office (UK) and Detectorists, you’ll probably already have seen this & know just how good it is, but just in case you haven’t, there’s now three seasons to binge.
Pretty much restores my faith in UK television’s ability to produce bittersweet comedies, a faith that has been severely tested of late.

Sad to hear Sidney Poitier has left this mortal coil aged 94 and while I’m sure we all have our own favourite films he starred in, this one is mine.
To Sidney, With Love.

Not to be confused with Battlefield Earth, the truly terrible scientological scifi film from 2000 starring John Travolta.
https://www.primewire.vc/movie/410785-watch-battlefield-earth
I guess the only good thing that can be said about Alien:Battlefield Earth is that its current IMDb score of 3.1 beats the 2.5 score by Battlefield Earth (though judging by the ten minutes I sat through there is plenty of time for that score to drop!)

This is UK 70s Christmas nostalgia with baubles on! If you’re old enough to remember the decade, there’s a good chance you probably watched the original All Creatures Great And Small Christmas episode first time around, such was its popularity and likewise such were the scarcity of alternative British TV channels at the time.
Of course even in the 70s,the show was already a nostalgia trip, set as it was in the 1930s and yet the power of the James Herriot books (upon which the show was based) infuses it with a sweet timeless melancholy and gently reminds us what this season is all about.

Imagine The Matrix meets Idiocracy.

The true spirit of Rock’N’Roll!
The live rendition of Human Fly is the stuff of legend.

This film is so worth watching in my opinion anyways /at least.

Hollywood makes a spin-off that doesn’t suck - this year just gets stranger.

Good new season first episode about a poor and illiterate American who wins $30 million on the lottery. While many of us would jump at the chance to discover for ourselves why money doesn’t buy happiness, I doubt if any of us would want to learn the lesson in this particular way.

Good in-depth documentary on the strange 1969 UK ‘case of mistaken identity’ kidnapping of newspaper executive wife Muriel McKay with testimony from one of the convicted men as well as a critical look at the police handling of the case.

I keep hoping for a genetically mutated strain of marijuana that will take me back to 1969!

In the wake of so many badly concieved redux re-imaginings that seem hellbent on turning any much loved film or TV series into moronic crap, I approached Dexter:New Blood with a certain amount of anxiety and dread.
I shouldn’t have worried, this is shaping up to be something special.

Kudos to the Doom Patrol for navigating effortlessly through the always difficult third season (I’m looking at you American Gods) with panache and style.
At times I felt a real Legion vibe to the third season (high praise indeed) and the best news of all is the announcement of a fourth season.

Atmospheric, spooky Estonian Soviet era sci-fi/mystery film based on a story by the Strugatskiy Brothers and with the same vibe as Stalker (also based on a story by the brothers) and out of the dozens of Eastern Bloc/Soviet era scifi films this is one of the best. The electronic soundtrack music by Estonian artist Sven Grunberg really adds to the strange atmosphere and I well recommend checking out his late 70s/early 80s recordings if you grok electronic sound.
Unfortunately there are no subtitles for any of the links but there are English subtitles available if you do a search for ‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell on the usual subtitle sites.

This is such a great sci-fi/alternative history film and it’s surprising that it isn’t nearly as well known as other limited budget Black consciousness themed sci-fi films like Space Is The Place or Brother from Another Planet and yet it’s every bit as imaginative, wry and thought provoking.

My favorite Clarke book. I read this in junior high and my mind was blown.

Three episodes in and I’m already rooting for the extraterrestrials.

A much loved nineties UK crime drama series. Robbie Coltrane is a force of nature as the central character Fitz and the supporting cast are superb, a totally believable collection of damaged cops, weird psycho-killers and long suffering family members, coupled with complex, interweaving storylines.
I rewatched it last year and it was every bit as good as I remembered it to be, thank the TV gods.

That would be Jimmy Swaggart. His cousin is Jerry Lee Lewis the Rock n’ Roll Pioneer. Both play the Piano really well and have a penchant for ladies of the night.

Excellent documentary miniseries by Marina Zenovich on one of those strange Christian religious/cult groups, always led by a ‘charismatic’ leader that seem to be particularly prominent in America.
Despite the cautionary tales of recent history been littered with cult leaders like Jim Jones or fraudsters and predators like Jim Bakker and Jerry Swaggart who all used religion in the service of their own needs, the lessons seem seldom learned.
I have to say though, the shock ending does make you think there is a strange cosmic justice in operation.

Late to the party on this one, but I’m so glad I finally got around to watching After Life, it’s one of those rare shows that effortlessly blurs comedy and tragedy in such an emotionally satisfying and cathartic manner. It was impossible to not watch the next episode and then the next and… Now like millions of others I can’t wait for season three.

Looks like the PW pre-cogs have voted it a winner before the first episode has even been aired - it may suggest that the virtue signalling force is strong in this one.
Having said that, the many varied takes on this sci-fi end-of-the-world theme has created some wonderful cinema in the past (as other comments have referenced) and I’d add On The Beach, The Quiet Earth and Omega Man to the list.

Surprised again. Cool. I actually just finished watching it again. I never heard of Tarkovsky. Any films in particular?

Wow. The fact that there are NO comments for this film is even more shocking than the film itself.

Such a great film, both funny and poignant and it has one of the truly great new wave/punk songs, Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World as part of the plot - perfect film for the weekend.