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The Victorian Murder Files (2024)
Exploitative nonsense
I do not write reviews but I feel I should write this. Unfortunately I missed the first one but it is the third one that I found particularly annoying and I had to go back to check. Why did they not inform us of the time period when this took place? Why did they not put up a picture of the woman which is freely available? And don't get me started on why the program treats us like brain damaged idiots repeating endlessly after the advert breaks what we have just seen a few minutes previously. I have been invited a few times to be on programs such as this and I felt sorry for the actors? Or the professionals involved. The producer and the director could do better if they learned from the the way documentaries were made in the 1950s. That is, without their egos getting in the way. To deliver the information succinctly and clearly, without exploitation. If they need an example then look for, 'Scotland Yard' with Edgar Lustgarten.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
I don't care what others think.
Let me say outright I loved it! As I did the previous two films. I have bought the DVD of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and I've already, within a week, watched it three times, gaining more information upon each viewing. Everything from the main storyline, the directing, the pace, the editing, the lighting and not to ignore the fantastic music. Did I say how much I love the music of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts? I now have eleven soundtracks and listen to them constantly. I sometime muse about how John Williams would have written the other films. Certainly one of the finest composers of the twentieth century. I do so hope that the next two films are given the green light. It can't be left as it is. If Warner Brothers don't cough up the money, then perhaps another company will.
Great Expectations (2012)
A good show
It is not often that I feel enough to put pen to paper but this film deserves it. The director is attempting to fill some huge shoes, namely David Lean.
I chose to watch it from curiosity but stayed for the enjoyment, all aspects except one being wonderful. Yet the film did more than simply entertain me. It allowed me entrance to the world of actors enabling me to view their secret world as I recognised that some of them had worked together in past projects. If I were a person of fancy, I would have said they were elevated but certainly they live in a different world to myself.
The two reasons I do not give it a ten is because one, David Lean's 1946 version is so perfect. I am shameful that I cannot view this modern version objectively but that is my problem not Mike Newell's. And secondly, the sound quality is poor. To which I say, diction actors. Diction.