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After years of searching for adaptations of the famous social-critical novel by D. H. Lawrence, I'm coming to the point where I need to check out the soft erotic version produced by Showtime. There are also a few episodes of this available on porn sites at most ;). Well, it's a drop in quality, no doubt about it. But is it even possible to have a reference idea from two random episodes? In the season one episode Does He Have a Brother? a bunch of mismatched people (rich and bored, of course) try to figure out who's sucking up to whom, and in the meantime, we get a look inside their bedrooms. In an episode from the second season of Satisfaction, Lady (Shauna O'Brien) confesses to her friends and, like the fairy godmother, advises on the topics of marital and extramarital sex. One could almost say that this naive version is much closer to the narrative of Fanny Hill or Josephine Mutzenbacher. Which is actually a missed opportunity.

While in the first series we were introduced to the phenomenon called stand-up comedy, in the second series we enjoy more personal stories of individual comedians. For some, it may be better to have a more personal encounter with serial drama, but for others, more boring. So if the Goldie Club bunch grabbed you by the heart, go for it. Because each of them has a story to tell.

I haven't seen more garbage in the field of Czech romcoms in a long time. It would be nice to take off the rose-tinted glasses from time to time and realize that the mere casting of Bartoška in the lead role cannot cover up all the glaring flaws. As always, only tasteless female viewers who don't know the difference between a feature film and a TV series will enjoy it.

There should be one more film to bring Tolkien's biography to its conclusion. These are just the younger years and a reminder of the fact that even "The Lord of the Rings" is just a response to the horrors of the Great War. Like anything written by the Lost Generation, including A. A. Milne. And of course, before the war, everyone, without distinction, went on dates by taking their sweethearts to Wagner operas ;)

Jay Roach should get a kiss for the simple combination of Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, and Nicole Kidman. An absolutely great film. A topical and important issue. And as a sweet treat, we have Robbie in the arms of Kate McKinnon. Hell has frozen over.

What should you expect from the great Texas saga charting the story of a generation based on the novel by Pulitzer winner Edna Ferber? First off, a big widescreen color film, a screen on which Lizzy Taylor remains for three and a half hours, and James Dean spices it all up. In the 1950s, Hollywood didn't really care much about sets and costumes and how they evolved over time, so it's very difficult to keep track of the time jumps, you can only orient yourself by the cars or the age of the kids, and that’s not enough. Indeed, it's all a foreshadowing of Dallas, as the proclaimed mentality of Texas cattle chasers and oil tycoons is prescribed here in exactly the spirit the series would later build upon. Personally, I would recommend an older film, Boom Town with Clark Gable (1940), if you are interested in a similar theme. This experience with Giant falls into the category of pure reference.

A very good little big TV movie that could stand on its own. After all, the course of the protagonist's mysterious illness is more than realistic, although the finale is rather ridiculous. But as a solo Brodská film, it's ideal.

A very decent crime drama. The environment of the Vietnamese community is an excellent refreshment for the Czech context. Ha Thanh Špetlíková is very pleasant, David Novotný is a classic redneck and together they are the perfect pair for a trip from Varnsdorf to Sapa.

A situational comedy? A black comedy? An idea for an undergraduate short story? Radek Bajgar seems to like dealing with unreal situations in a typically Czech environment. His series work also refers to crazy normalization comedies and if in his feature project the focus is once again on the iconic face of Iva Janžurová, then that’s it. As a subject for a small TV movie, perhaps Shotgun Justice could have shone, but this is an unnecessary elevation of a banality to a feature film.

A weak effort. It is much praised, but it is absolutely about nothing. The previous versions always copied the same situations, only the musical taste changed gradually. We can expect a film similar to this again in a few years.