SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Myriam Nys Superbly demented comedy about the adventures (or non-adventures, as the case may be) of three maladjusted eccentrics trying to navigate a sea of troubles. Highly original ideas and concepts, excellent dialogue, fine performances and a tangible chemistry between the leads - so what more do you need ? (In case you're thinking : "I'd like some random dancing of the deconstructivist school", don't worry, there's that too.) For all its weirdness, the series is grounded in reality : as a devout visitor to second-hand bookshops I can confirm that this is a prime environment for the sad, the deluded, the angry, the perverse, the eccentric and the misanthropic.My memories include a manager, in Brussels, who liked to spell out his wishes and desiderata to prospective customers as soon as they entered the store. ("Article one. ALL customers, and I do mean ALL, will greet me in a clear and audible voice upon crossing the threshold"). I also remember a fellow customer who liked to browse his way through stacks of French cooking books - "I don't cook myself but one likes to dream" - while telling everybody about his dog, which had a double jointed tail ; and finally there was a vicious-looking shop girl, tattooed with the ugliest Mexican flower skull I've ever seen, who accused everybody of trying to buy and sell obscene materials. At one point she even accused the postman who tried to give her some mail.But to return to the subject : I firmly recommend the episode about the most expensive bottle of wine in the world. (The episode, sad to say, does not end well for the Supreme Pontiff.) I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.

stat-07197 I enjoy British comedy and this show does not disappoint. It is a cross (for me) of Absolutely Fabulous and The Young Ones. I stumbled across the series on Netflix and will be binge watching it all this weekend.Thank you Netflix for including this show in your lineup. The main actors do a superb job of capturing their characters' quirks and idiosyncrasies. I would love to see outtakes because I am quite sure the actors must crack up all through production.Give this show a watch and prepare to laugh your a%* off. Lots of twists and unexpected stuff here.

vincenttiggelman I love this comedy series so much. The interaction between Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey is superb and Tamsin Greig is very good as well. Classic situations always seem to take a weird turn and the outcome is mostly hilarious. The setting is perfect: the alcoholic, cantankerous bookstore owner Bernard Black hires weird misfit Manny Bianco who occasionally seems to have strange powers, odd diseases and the rich social life that Bernard by turns craves or is repulsed by. They spend their days drinking wine, arguing, selling books or actively trying to prevent books from being sold. They get pestered by hysterical neighbor/friend Fran, who has her own problematic life. The jokes and absurd situations are excellent and the timing of both actors is great.The only problem i have is Fran. Tamsin Greig plays her part well but it isn't well written out for her. For example: in the episode "Blood" the storyline of Bernard and Manny trying to turn the bookstore in a restaurant is simply fantastic but Fran's re-uniting with her family just isn't funny and really ruins an otherwise great episode. Still, Black Books is unique and i am genuinely sorry it only ran for three seasons.

mnjames-876-392018 Mildly funny, but with a hideous laugh track. Honestly, I didn't get past the first episode, mostly due to the inappropriate cackling of the artificial audience - very bad choice. Without that it could be funny, at least if you were quite high.To the creators of this site, canceled can be spelled with two "L"s both spellings are valid.I dunno (not a real word) what dictionary you're using, but there's a problem with it.Also, apparently, I need to add more lines? Who is making these rules? If this review is rejected it's the last time I'll bother trying to contribute to this site. It's potentially worse that Wikipedia, and I didn't think it was possible to surpass that level of stupid.