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13. Confetti (2006) Confettiis a very British comedy starring classic names like Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson), Jimmy Carr, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Robert Webb, and Olivia Colman. The entire script ofConfettiwas improvised, relying on the wit of its established cast members. It was also filmed in an observational mockumentary style, which only adds to the laughs. But where does the competition come in? Well,Confettidocuments a fictional magazine competition for “Most Original Wedding....

13. Mare of Easttown (2021) This miniseries is the epitome of the phrase “short and sweet.” The story follows Marianne “Mare” Sheehan (played by the perennially great Kate Winslet), who’s tasked with solving the murder of a local mother. However, at the same time, she has to try her hardest to stop her own personal life from falling apart. Though it only ran for one season,Mare of Easttownis a joy to watch and one of the greatest examples of a modern miniseries....

13. Qwixx Do you like classicYahtzee? Then you’ll loveQwixx! It’s a roll-and-write game where everyone plays their turns simultaneously. Players have score cards with the numbers 2 to 12 in each of four colors: red, yellow, green, blue. Each round, a set of six shared dice are thrown: two white dice plus one die of each color. The dice determine which boxes can be marked off on score cards, but here’s the twist: once a number is marked off for a color, you can’t mark offsmallernumbers of that color in future rounds....

13. Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) Ted Bundy is most famous for his charm and good looks that made him an unsuspecting murderer. But he’s not the only killer who hid in plain sight beneath a veil of charisma. Try Robert Berchtold. At first, everyone thought Robert Berchtold was a kindly neighbor who always had an ear to listen and a joke to crack. However, when his relationship with 12-year-old neighbor Jan Broberg grew increasingly intense, things started to go south....

Luis Buñuel and the Origins of Surrealism Surrealism was an evolution of the Dada movement, which flourished in early 20th century Paris. Dadaism was an avant-garde reaction to World War One that was very much anti-war and anti-bourgeois. Dadaism’s radical left-wing politics and rejection of logic gave birth to what we now recognize to be surrealism. The Spanish-Mexican filmmakerLuis Buñuelwas one of the first to pioneer surrealism in movies. He’s essentially the Dalí of cinema, having directed one of the most shocking films ever made:Un Chien Andalou, the first surrealist movie....