From my favorite movies..

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

This is a superb show. The best series I have followed in years. The actors are fantastic and do justice to the period. The cinematography is beautiful. I love the themes that are explored that help us to realise that prejudice existed both in the 1950s and now. Add to that the fact that 2 of the leading men are rather dishy and I'm definitely a fan!

I am glued to the television every day I so look forward to watching this programme then I find out it is just going to end why oh why end such a fab series, its far better than neighbours and home and away and they have been going years why is when a brilliant programme is launched they go ahead and spoil it by cutting it short very disappointed by this

A cheesy down under soap. Entertaining though and never slow. Plenty of bad people straight out of central casting to set one's teeth gnashing. A heroine who is not only Jewish (convert) and a holocaust survivor but able to glare down and riposte with all of the bad guys.Throw in a pouting gay guy, and a marriage between an upper class Aussie and an Italian immigrant farmer and the kettle is always boiling. Oh did I forget the changeling? This latest season even has an Inspector Lastrade thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

I stumbled across "A Place to Call Home" on Acorn TV. It shows life in the 1950's where any diversity in the population is suspect. Never mind that Australia, like America, had a large population of immigrants who came to the country earlier (regardless of how those first immigrants arrived) and now eschew and refuse to accept anyone who isn't exactly like themselves. I just finished Episode 5 in Series 1 and the series has already addressed a myriad of differences. You just know that everyone has secrets that motivate their behavior and those secrets are revealed in subtle ways that could happen in the repressed 1950's. The only disappointment to me - and it's a big one - is how this series portrays the Jewish observances of the main character, Sarah, so inaccurately. It's the "Day of Atonement" episode that made me wonder if the writers, directors or anyone connected with the show utilized a technical consultant like a rabbi or scholar in Judaism. This episode has Sarah offering her apologies to others for her wrongdoings (most notably, Mrs. Bligh) on the day of Yom Kippur. Such apologies must occur before Yom Kippur begins, not on the day. Sarah rides a bicycle on Yom Kippur which someone observant would not do. The rituals and practices are many on Yom Kippur and I could on and on but you get the idea. The errors are too numerous to list. I intend to keep watching. I do wonder, though, what errors might be apparent in the portrayal of other characters whose presence in the series is so crucial to the period of intolerance that was the 1950's.