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How television's first presenter, Ed Sullivan, changed the very fabric of the USA by having Black musicians appear on his high rating show, opening doors nationwide for these artists during a time of segregation and injustice. There are great performances from James Brown, The Supremes, Jackie Wilson, plus a very young, Stevie Wonder, and even a much younger Michael Jackson with his older siblings. Every great music artist from the fifties and sixties made an impact on one of the greatest variety show. A well structured and uplifting documentary on an influential humanitarian who saw all humans as equal, and never took a step back...

Nacho Vigalondo creates a hyper-surreal series of pure enjoyment, a style certainly needed to tell of Spain's trashy icon, Tamara, a short sensation at the very start of the 21st century. Even more creative - and very brave - is to do it via the supposedly life of those who contributed to Tamara's rise to fame for all the wrong reasons, mainly through the idiot box. A twisted and refreshing retelling of a person's dream used and abused by others (from management to her mother) with their own hypercritical agendas, and makes you wonder if Tamara was the only sane person with true intentions of being a music pop artist...

This is how you make an over-the-top zombie movie, just by adding martial-arts, along with a dystopian world heading to an apocalyptic ending, and a fish-like infection that gives it a nice twist. All this taking place in a Bangkok hospital where the virus breaks out, and if you attempt to leave then the military shoot you down in order to keep the virus from spreading into the city. Plenty of gore to make one squirm, with hard-to-swallow tight situations for our heroes that will have you yelling at the screen. If you are going to go big on another repetitive zombie genre story, then this is the way to do it...