I typically avoid series, probably due to lingering commitment issues; only just watched 30 Rock and The Office last year (I saw The IT Crowd, Sherlock and Peep Show before that. as well as An Idiot Abroad, but not the original The Office (I just think Ricky Gervais is mean, if sometimes delightfully so) (observe obvious anglophilia)). I LOVE documentaries! So I feel very sad to report that Too Far Is Not Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story is no longer available to stream (at least here in the USA). Though you CAN see Trick or Treaters which is a delightful animated film based on one of his stories (could only find a german trailer). Another I recently saw is Flamenco, Flamenco. It is an immensely beautiful and moving expository by showing and doing. I canāt recommend it enough if you are in the mood to be transported. The Wrecking Crew is also very enlightening if you are interested in music industry intel as well gender dynamics in male dominated fields.
If you need or want to spend and hour and a half crying tears of joy over the sheer goodness of humanity, I can not more recommend Batkid Begins. I know the trailer has the craptastic sappy music, but seriously, this is SO FABULOUS.
Continuum and chuck.
So youāre sayin Ip Man isnāt about fighting for Intellectual Property, with swords?
Bummer. But I will still totally check it out.
If I were to be completely honest, for the longest time, we didnāt watch it because I couldnāt shake the IP=intellectual property notion, and couldnāt register it as a name. 
I tried to watch the remake, but couldnāt get all the way through the first episode. Itās too clean and pretty.
Try the original. God, that one had me spellbound when it first came out. Itās the only old series that I have sat down and watched all the way through again as a very busy adult with too many other responsibilities to waste time watching anything a second time instead of something new. It REALLY evokes Cornwall in a way that the new one simply doesnāt.
Thank you! I have friends who live near there, so itāll be a good watch on several levels for me.
Daaamn, Ip Man made me into a Donnie Yen fanatic. Seeing him in the latest Crouching Tiger sequel just made me squee for hours on end.
I squeed when I saw on IMDB that heās going to be in Rogue One.
Probably not on Netflix, but if you areā¦ less scrupulous, Chris morrisās Blue Jam is brilliantly dark surreal humour. Roy Mallardās People Like Us is good as well. Same stable of comedians & writers pretty much. Big Train as well. And Spaced.
Yay for People Like Us, an unfairly overlooked mockumentary trailblazer imho.
āIs it south-facing?ā the prospective buyer asks the estate agent. āIn the mornings, yes,ā he replies.
From memory, may be shaky!
Also bravo for the shout-out to Big Train, another oft-forgotten classic.
Super topical and a lovely movie with a great female lead, a story line about a lawyer who follows his dharma to a purposeful and lucrative career, and the story behind a 20th century masterpiece. Rate +10 for HELEN MIRREN being AMAZING as usual.
I quite enjoyed the lemony snicket series that was brought out recently.
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