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Imagine you just discover a dusty untouched 30-year bottle of whisky and you crack it open to savor it with a good buddy. So if you have a flair for a bit of nostalgia for an ageless style, Irishman is your movie. The Irishman sums it all: the actors you admire, the director you respect, the narrative that magically balances action and story telling. When effortless virtuosity creates ageless beauty. The movie makes references, but this is where true art comes: it's all done in a very mature way, with signature traveling, background music, and amazing acting. So grab that bottle, turn the light off and travel in this place that is a part of yourself. Yes, it's 2020 and you can watch Al Pacino and Bob De Niro as if they were at their debut, filled with unlimited talent. Oh my god, I finished a full bottle without noticing, and so are the 3hours or plus of this masterpiece.

A great film if you have incoming calls every 20min as that's about how fast each action occurs. Oh, and of course the end is absolutely predictable. Best actor is the house and its garden, great vacation rental, even though the architecture is a bit too 80ies. Guess it was produced by security camera companies.

Self absorbed movie. Too bad as it could have been indeed a great movie, with a city seldomly filmed like Napoli, history with Maradona in the background, front story with a coming of age that mix sex and death that could have boded well with mythological landscapes and actors you can only find in Italy or in Barnum Circus. The result is just a pale copy of what Italian cinema once was, with good photography. I think the director got overwhelmed with his own story and like the last scene, indeed we don't really care nor have any attachment to anything happening to anyone there.

Annoying repeat of the same idea again and again with more or less drama and stupid emotional private conversations. As if Hillary and company did not use the very same brainwashing. Reality is the effect of these manipulations on both sides cancel each other and just make the in betweeners richer.

Fast and Furious meets with Commando meets with Money heist. So get ready for preposterous yet flamboyant scenes that defies any thinking. Even though visually pleasing with some okay situational schoolboy jokes, the underlying message (yes, the movie has no shame) that billionaires can unleash unlimited violence with massive collateral damages to stop a murderous dictator is, to say the least, very disturbing. But hey, since when do you need a brain to enjoy endless advertising, just enjoy a Lavazza in your Alfa romeo with a dash of RedBull and Captain Morgan?

Great show about the tectonic effects of suddenly quenching the very human thirst for the beyond and the meaningful with the appearance of a Messiah. I like the fact the actor speaks in their own language, I like the diversity of the locations involved, I like the pace of the filming that creates space for some thinking or questioning. It is obvious the people involved in the project have a deep understanding of what is faith, how it is perceived and what impacts it does by following or reacting to it. The Messiah Character shows how it creates a marker, a reference towards which humans define us. The series balance well first and second roles and creates realistic archetypes with awesome acting and well written characters, in such a genuine way that we position ourselves: What would I do? How would I react? What do I believe? How do I believe? What is instinct? Could you trust this person?... Your mind cruises these unsettling questions and you know you are hooked to the show. Beyond the characters, I like the series' systemic approach with subtle references to the scriptures, echoing what the new testament did with the old testament. The show manages to put the viewer in a permanent tension between Scepticism and Truthiness, which depicts deeply both sides of our human behavioural kit. One thing though: The series is dense enough, so I fear about dilution if the network is planning to have more than 2 seasons. It could have been a movie masterpiece.

How can a movie based on a true story can feel so fake? Each scene is designed with overdramatical music and acting. They should have called it the Man Overboard Romance. The real characters have survived, am not sure the audience might. Pass if you were just curious how someone can survive 41 days on a wreck.

The best from House, the worst from ER. Actually TGD has done a full circle, as it's from a Korean drama which itself is largely inspired from House and ER, so for those who likes House, it is somehow a refreshing and nice sequel to it. With a clear reference to MD House, involving guest actors we really loved like Robert Sean Leonard in a hilarious episode with a Marlin stuck in his leg or Lisa Edelstein as an oncologist, or the soundtrack, TGD brings back good memories of House, such as the diagnostic process with a suspense that keeps the audience stuck to the screens. Now it also gets its inspiration from ER and its bad tendency of getting rid off its characters or putting them thru a roller coaster of events that have little credibility. The problem with approach to me is the excess of drama twist the show into a crazy dark comedy. The actual mortality rate during surgery is around 3%, where in the show it is around 30%, plus the death of people surrounding the main characters, if not the main characters themselves, it is just too much. If anything, I would avoid their hospital! Overall, we are still far from the level of creativity and filming talent from House. I wished they offered some good guest directors to shoot the show with 'start-from-the-end' or from a different perspective (ie: the nurses) to give us more insights on how an hospital works or how the dynamics between the characters works. But the matrix of Netflix/ABC is still great, with solid scripts, and great actors. As always with Netflix, the film also pushes some messages and it questions our societies in their capacities to include the talents of people on a wider spectrum. And at least in the first 3 seasons that's great to finally have an angle where we include by merits and yes, where people have to prove themselves too, whatever their background. Equal chances for all, not forced quotas. Of course, I suspect the last seasons to be way more "Netflixed", and that's also why I am fine to stop after Season 3 as even though it's great to be inclusive, I don't really want to be forced-fed repeatedly on these points. On autism, I read from over reviews that "the accountant" is way better, however I still think Dr Shaun Murphy makes me understand about autism. For instance, how we could interact and use their talents to contribute to a better society. Like anything, exposure is key to understanding and the show is great for developing empathy for Shaun and therefore for autism in general. My experience is limited, but now I understand better why this kid in the metro stared at me for 20 sec and then asked me: "are you a woman or a man?", which out of the blue can be very puzzling. So I watched the 3 first seasons and stopped happily there as it concludes well this series with enough drama. Hope you enjoy the show too.

If you want to be upset with all the waste of acting, scenario, and film, watch this movie. The movie is about the after-life and how a society reacts to it, and if anything, I almost wished I was suicidal enough to end up my life to avoid watching the whole movie. Or maybe I became suicidal enough to watch the entire movie. The open scene is okay, but what it promises falls immediately flat with long, grayish and utterly boring scenes. The characters don't fit together, there is absolutely no chemistry between any of the actors, leaving the whole acting as siloed as poor performance. The scenes are repetitive and long, and I even truly felt embarrassed during the kissing scenes as you can feel the two actors wishing they were in a another world. So you are watching a very dull development of the story to end up with a tepid conclusion: yeah, when you die, you think about how to make the best of what you should have done. Big deal. Probably the worst movie I have seen in 2020. And I have watched Underground 6.