Console best movie i've ever seen.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Kamila Bell 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.

KexUK But for those with some mental stamina....just brilliant. The first thing that hits is the amazing photography and lighting.Symbolic clues coagulate to form the opening intros/titles,this hints at the amazing quality of script and plot that follows. Often, in such series, there's always one or two actors/actresses that don't quite 'make the grade' and interrupt the hallucinatory effect of the whole. Not so in this series. The acting is superb.Characters are quickly established in a very believable and acceptable form. This being so I think it unfair (even though I really want to) to pick out this actor or that actress for special mention.It is a homage to this series to resist that temptation as all were so,so good. Rarely do we do so, but we watched the whole thing from beginning to end...the call of the bed after a tiring day was not enough to drown out the urge to walk further into this incredible series, even just for a few hours. So we 'did our trip', took our energising journey into the beautiful literary landscape of this enthralling series, surprises lurked at almost every corner. So well produced.So well directed.so well acted. so well filmed and lighted.so well music scored...ah, well, the thing was just, well, brilliant.

MattyAndAnnika The Honourable Woman 2014 mini series also known as The Honorable Woman featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal is an amazing mini series! Director and writer Hugo Blick hit the nail on the head with this story showing the realities of how war is truly started. The Honorable Woman displays a story following the two siblings who watched their father murdered due to his line of business, and as they grew up they sought to do something good with it. This story shows that no matter what good you do that there is always someone out there that needs to stir things up just to make a buck which causes wars between all people. As I've always said the only real bad people in the world is the ones who control it, but back to my review.This mini series is amazing, the acting is perfection, the story is a nicely put together roller coaster which keeps you wondering all the way to the end of the last minutes. As this story states "who can you trust?", the answer is no one; and why should you? If you haven't saw this TV Series, it is a must see, I cannot wait to see if and when the next series pops out. WoodBangersEntertainment.com

runamokprods Stunning, beautifully made 8 hour mini-series that attempts to humanize a situation as impossibly knotty as the middle east, and against all odds, succeeds. The biggest triumph here is by writer/director/producer Hugo Blick, who creates an amazingly dense and cinematic landscape of characters and tragedies. Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a tremendously wealthy Israeli determined to use her wealth and influence to try and bring together Israelis and Palestinians. Her father – assassinated before her eyes as a child – was an arms merchant amassing a huge fortune, but at a human cost Nessa finds hard to live with. Now, as an adult, along with her brother, she plans to bring the high-speed internet to the Palestinian areas of Israel to help jump start their economy and self-sufficiency. But, understandably this plan raises hackles and suspicions on both sides and before you know it Nessa's brother's Palestinian housekeeper (and Nessa's friend) has her son kidnapped. Thus begins a complicated, tense, tremendously intelligent and demanding trip down a rabbit hole of lies, secrets, hidden histories, violence, spies and counter-spies and the sadness of watching your ideals hacked to pieces by all those around you. The series deserves credit for many things, among which is managing not to take sides, but to examine the madness on all sides of living in perpetual war. The acting is tremendous. Maggie Gyllenhaal cements her position as one of our finest and most versatile actresses. Her Nessa is an admirable if deeply flawed woman. Gyllenhaal deftly melds all the character's sides; absurdly smart, brave, afraid, powerful, hidden, foolish, naive -- into a great tragic heroine. Stephen Rea is endlessly fascinating as a very smart UK spy attempting to uncover the many hidden truths. Quiet yet immensely powerful, watching Rea's Sir Hayden-Hoyle interrogate and manipulate those he interviews is a master class in loaded understatement in performance. But the whole cast is absolutely first rate; the brilliant and under-appreciated Janet McTeer as Rea's boss, Andrew Buchan as Nessa's brother, Lubna Azbal as the mother of the kidnapped boy, etc. Just as wonderful is the cinematography, editing and music, combing to create a show that feels stylistically far more like a top flight auteur film than TV. This is challenging, complicated stuff. You will inevitably get lost at times. But have faith Blick and crew will bring you back around if you pay attention. And you'll want to. I greedily watched the 8 hours in 2 days.This also lead me to watch Blick's previous BBC mini-series "The Shadow Line" -- a tale of police corruption and drug dealing that's almost a complicated and great as "Honorable Woman". If you responded strongly to this, you should check out that earlier work as well.

jc-osms I finally got to the end of this tortuous eight-part BBC series with my head spinning and my sympathies unengaged. An obviously highly topical storyline centring on the Israel/Palestine conflict, for me it was a dissatisfying mix of convoluted plotting, unsettling situations, periodic bursts of unsavoury actions, grisly killings and right-on politics, at one point having us believe that the US government under any circumstances would drop its support of Israel's right to exist in the United Nations.I see Maggie Gylenhaal getting praised to the skies in the press for her part but I found her would-be martyrdom unconvincing. She doesn't even report her second rapist to the authorities, instead supposedly gratifying herself with telling the offender's wife instead. That's taking self sacrifice too far. Apart from delivering a spot-on English accent, she gets to run a lot, cry a lot, be silent a lot and undress a lot, especially to enter her sci-fi type special toilet, the purpose of which escaped me. None of the rest of the cast really convinced me in their roles either, none less so than Stephen Rea in a very mannered style of acting, playing the Smiley-esque spymaster always one step behind the action while at the same time pursuing his ex-wife like a lovesick teenager.For some episodes I thought I was actually getting somewhere with the plot only to be thrown into confusion by the next one. I do get that Middle-east politics are at times impenetrably dense and complicated but with no liking or sympathy for Gylenhaal's Nessa Stein character or her elder brother, I have to say it took a lot of effort to watch it all the way through to the end.Maybe it's just that I don't like or condone depictions of terrorism whether small or large-scale, or attempts to get inside the heads of ruthless political terrorists, but with no one figure commanding my attention never mind my sympathy, I was quite pleased just to make it to the end. Frankly, it just never felt real at any point and as the plot moved into ever-increasing circles failed to take me with it along the way.