Welcome to the FOURTH edition of the #HumpdayAndChill 🎬🍿 event – the event where we recommend our favourite movies and series around a certain topic, chosen by the #TangledCommunity .
Our theme this week was UNANIMOUSLY chosen and is: 🎭🍿🎬 Last Movie/Series Watched 🎬🍿🎭
If you participate with a valid entry, you could #earn some #millix – tomorrow evening I will close the event and select three winners who will each receive 750,000 millix ! 😺 I upped the amounts a bit, and will try to continue do so as the event becomes more popular!
The rules are simple: 1. Pick your film/series 👀 (please stick to topic!). 2. Comment your choice ON THIS POST (or a link to your separate post) and tell us in a few sentences why you like this film/series 🙊. 3. Optional: add a visual – either video or image and/or a link to a teaser video, so #Tanglers can check out your choice!
*The event lasts TWO days and will be closed Thursday 27 July around 17:30 UTC.
Tomorrow, I will add all valid entries into a raffle draw and select the three winners! 🚨 PS: one entry per person only in the draw!
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One of the latest movies I have watched is RENFIELD . This film follows the story of the titular character, the long-suffering servant of Dracula, the latter played by Nicholas Cage. Renfield’s witty and eccentric with a mysterious past. As Dracula’s familiar, he is immortal and gains super strength and speed when he consumes bugs. As we delve into his enigmatic story, we land in a world of supernatural forces and dark secrets.
The film navigates a crazy journey filled with humour, suspense, blood-splattered gore and the exploration of Renfield's complex persona. But, I thought it all felt a bit… ‘thin’ and anaemic, and very much like a B-movie. Maybe this is what the director had in mind all along? The film did have a few funny moments and I’m sure we have inspiration for many memes after seeing Nicholas Cage in full Dracula makeup. But, besides all the B-movie theatrics, the heads exploding like bombs, the gallons of blood being spilled… the film wasn’t all that. 🤷🏼♀️
Last Movie I watched On My Laptop ... Sometime I Watch TV Too But On Laptop With Silent Room.. It Gives An Other Level Of Fun John Wick: Chapter 4 With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin.
I current watching the latest season (7) of "Outlander". I love this show! It's on going.. But I recently finished First Season of "1923". Definitely one of the best shows ever! 🙌 It's a lot of American history filled with the Dalton's family challenges as farmers and owners of a huge property, Yellowstone Ranch, in the state of Montana. But not limited to that, the show covers the cruel missionaries trying to civilize the native Indians and a beautiful romantic and dramatic story of hunter Dalton and an English aristocrat that meet and starts in Africa. Many parallel stories connected together. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
1923 is an American Western drama television series that premiered on December 18, 2022, The series is a prequel to the Paramount Network series Yellowstone and serves as a sequel to the series 1883, with Isabel May reprising her role from the latter as narrator Elsa Dutton. In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes.
Premise The series follows a generation of the Dutton family in 1923, during a time of various hardships including Prohibition, drought, and the early crash.
I read many of the Outlander books, but haven't watched the series yet. I'm scared Jamie is not gonna be portrayed the way I imagined him! 1923 is a completely new one to me. Thanks
Palpito is a series on Netflix and it deals with Simón's wife is murdered to remove his heart and transplant it to the wife of a powerful millionaire. In search of revenge, Simón throws himself into the dangerous world of organ trafficking.
House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second television series in the A Song of Ice and Fire franchise. I loved Game of thrones, So upon its release I had to watch it.
One of the latest series I have watched is "Black Mirror"
"Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world. Each story features its own cast of unique characters, including stars like Bryce Dallas Howard ("The Help"), Alice Eve, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Cullen and Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones"). Joe Wright, Dan Trachtenberg, and James Watkins are among the featured directors. Stand-alone dramas that explore techno-paranoia in witty, scary, and sarcastic ways. Be amazed!
INFORMATION TYPE TV series PRODUCTION DIRECTOR(S) Tomasz Bagiński Alik Sakharov Alex Garcia Lopez Charlotte Brändström Stephen Surjik[1] Edward Bazalgette[1] Sarah O'Gorman[1] Geeta Potel[1]
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER(S) Sean Daniel Jason Brown Lauren Schmidt Hissrich PRODUCER(S) Tomasz Bagiński Jarek Sawko WRITER(S) Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (showrunner) Beau DeMayo[2] Jenny Klein[3] Declan de Barra[3] Sneha Koorse[3] Clare Higgins (assistant)[3]
CONSULTANT(S) Andrzej Sapkowski COMPOSER(S) Sonya Belousova Giona Ostinelli[4][5] RELEASE DATE December 20, 2019 (Season One) December 17, 2021 (Season Two) June 29, 2023 (Season 3, Volume 1) BROADCAST NETWORK Netflix EXTERNAL LINKS WEBSITE Netflix The Witcher website MORE Others like you also viewed Witcher Wiki Ciri/Netflix series Ciri Yennefer of Vengerberg/Netflix series Emhyr var Emreis Emhyr var Emreis/Netflix series Geralt of Rivia/Netflix series Vilgefortz Yennefer of Vengerberg
The witcher Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. NETFLIX WEBSITE
The Witcher is a TV series exclusive to Netflix, based on the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski, who serves as a creative consultant on the show. It was announced on May 17, 2017, and its first season was released on December 20, 2019.
For me, I was watching Love Island (US) just this morning.
It's certainly not a piece of cinematic and or storytelling genius. It's a reality tv show with a lot of hot people pretending or genuinely coming to make a relationship with someone while attempting to win $100,000 dollars. It's not a high brow taste, so if you're someone who only watches "art", you probably won't see the appeal of it.
But, if you're someone who just wants to be entertained, experience predictable and often-times forced drama with some real sprinkled in, and wants to watch something that is easy to follow without requiring their full attention and filled with traditionally attractive people.... Love Island is exactly what you need while you do chores, get ready for the day, or just let your brain relax into a low-stakes, low-effort aesthetic scene of pretty people.
This would be the second to last one I watched, and I enjoyed it! There were storytelling elements that baffled me until they came around at the end again, but overall I quite enjoyed it.
Spy/Master Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest adviser to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu during the Cold War, is also a secret agent for the KGB and must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. With only one shot at staying alive, he uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to the United States. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and former flame, and an up-and-coming CIA agent, Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country's spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.
The Man I Married (alternative title I Married a Nazi) is an American 1940 drama film starring Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan and Anna Sten.
A successful, and yet naive American, art critic Carol Cabbott (Joan Bennett), is married to German Eric Hoffman (Francis Lederer) and have a seven-year-old son, Ricky (Johnny Russell). They travel to pre-war Nazi Germany to visit Eric's father, whom he has not seen for 10 years, although everybody tells them that to do so is foolish. A friend, Dr. Hugo Gerhardt (Ludwig Stossel), asks them to deliver money to, and somehow help his brother, the famous philosopher Ernst Gerhardt, who has been arrested and imprisoned in Dachau...
This movie captures, and explains, accurately the mood in Germany during the run-up to World War II. None of this is mentioned in the history books in school.
Farzi's story revolves around an artist who gets pulled into the murky high stakes of a con job and a fiery task force officer on a mission to get rid of menaces facing the country. The series stars Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Amol Palekar, and Kay Kay Menon in pivotal roles.
Taking on a subject such as counterfeiting, which is referred to as "financial terrorism" (in the series), the series is praised for both its topic and performances.
Helmed by the acclaimed director duo, Raj and DK, the crime thriller marks the digital debut of Shahid Kapoor and Vijay Sethupathi. The lead actors have confirmed the second season of the series.
Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 epic black-and-white war film about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and the Free French Forces during World War II. A French-American co-production, it was directed by French filmmaker René Clément, with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claude Brulé, adapted from the 1965 book of the same title by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The film stars an international ensemble cast that includes French (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Leslie Caron Charles Boyer, Yves Montand), American (Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert Stack, Anthony Perkins, George Chakiris) and German (Gert Fröbe, Hannes Messemer, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Harry Meyen, Wolfgang Preiss) stars.
The film was released in France on October 26, 1966, and in the United States on November 10, 1966. It received generally positive reviews, and was the fourth-most-popular film of the year in France for 1966. It was nominated for Best Cinematography (Black and White) and Academy Award for Best Art Direction at the 40th Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
I just fiinshed Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (last season). After watching 24 I become fan of such series :) Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (also known simply as Jack Ryan) is an American political action thriller television series, based on characters from the fictional "Ryanverse" created by Tom Clancy, that premiered on August 31, 2018, on Amazon Prime Video. The series was created by Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland. Cuse serves as an executive producer alongside John Krasinski, Michael Bay, and Mace Neufeld, among others. Krasinski also stars in the series as the title character, making him the fifth actor to portray the character after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine from the film series.
Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. It first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States on PBS, which supported its production as part of its Masterpiece Classic anthology, on 9 January 2011. The show ran for six series and fifty-two episodes, including five Christmas specials.
Having grown up in the UK, Downton Abbey is a docu-drama. The story is set against the backdrop of well-documented, historical social change Given the implicit nuances of Britain's class structure, the script is stilted at times as Fellowes attempts to explain "why" to viewers... amusing. Truly a "comedy of manners."