Blood Red Sky on Netflix, do yourself a favour and avoid it. Watched the first hr but should’ve turned off after 30mins, the one saving grace is the soundtrack by Dascha Dauenhauer which is dark and menacing, Yay for the soundtrack, Nay for the movie.
Zerozerozero is excellent on nowtv.
Taking a bit of a cue from Traffic but with a modern Sicario/Sopranos touch to it.
Multiple threads, and converging storylines.
Mogwai soundtrack too.
Shocking and violent as you may expect.
Watched one of those hilarious farce things, like After Hours or Date Night – you know where everything goes wrong for someone and it just gets worse and worse throughout the film. Hilarious. This one didn’t star Steve Carell though, but a northern English fella with tattoos. The acting was terrible, they kept stumbling over their words and forgetting things, which made it even funnier. By the end, I was in hysterics. “Sorry We Missed You” it’s called.
Tried to watch this tonight, turned it off after 30minutes it truly is terrible on all levels.
Ashin of the north, good but too long, if you like Korean horror Sweet Home, brilliant.
Tried to watch this tonight, turned it off after 30minutes it truly is terrible on all levels.
I can understand that. It does get funnier as it goes along though. 😀
Sky Atlantic 9pm “The White Lotus”. From what I’ve read this is worth a watch
Have to be honest, Netflix has become a bit poor over the last year or so
Cant argue with that. Seems they have moved their content to quantity over quality
Completely agree with this and considering cancelling it. Netflix appears to have become the Channel 5 of streaming services. Just so much shite to trawl through in the hope of finding something vaguely entertaining or good.
We've been enjoying
Animal Kingdom, 3 seasons in and now can't find season 4 ? Anyone know where we can find it ?
3 seasons in and now can’t find season 4 ?
It's on Prime US. I guess it'll turn up in the UK eventually. I don't know if you can spoof Prime with a VPN, I've not tried but you might find it needs a US billing address.
Sky Atlantic 9pm “The White Lotus”. From what I’ve read this is worth a watch
Yes, it's kind of Succession visits Fawlty Towers, but Basil Fawlty falls off the wagon and loses his shit. Episodes 3 and 4 were especially good, slowed down a lot for the final two. Apparently renewed for a new season at a different White Lotus hotel.
Watched Untold: Malice at the Palace the other night.
Superb basketball doc in the same vein and era as The Last Dance, but with a bit more social relevance.
Very recommended.
Also, even if Shane's mom did book the Pineapple Suite, he's still a prize ****.
Cruel Summer on Prime is very good and quite cleverly done...
Good soundtrack too.
New series of Sex Education is out next month
Gotham garage season 3 is terrible. Some of the builds in the previous series were well done. These are atrocious.
I watched Beckett last night. So you don't have to.
Simple linear plot, weak character(s), waiting for something to happen... And it doesn't. Seems like the Netflix way to me unless I'm just missing the good stuff.
Yes agree. Thought it might have better but wasn't.
Really appreciate the heads up on the White Lotus! Pretty much one my favourite new things I’ve seen in forever!! I couldn’t take my eyes off it, almost hypnotic!
yeah, it's brilliant! If they do more self-contained seasons, in the style of AHS or Fargo, that could be really cool.Really appreciate the heads up on the White Lotus! Pretty much one my favourite new things I’ve seen in forever!! I couldn’t take my eyes off it, almost hypnotic!
If they do more self-contained seasons, in the style of AHS or Fargo, that could be really cool.
Yes, apparently S2 has been greenlit set in a different White Lotus hotel.
Reservation Dogs on Hulu in the US is brilliant too. It'll be Disney+ internationally.
Watched the first episodes of Nine Perfect Strangers (Prime).
Big hitter cast and (so far) some nice set pieces, will stick with it.
Reviews say it's a poorer version of White Lotus but I don't do SKY .
The last season of Money Heist starts next Friday. The dubbing at times is annoying but I'm changing my favourite character every episode.
I found White Lotus hard going. Didn't enjoy it on balance. Only character I 'liked' was Armond. Oh, and Stiffler's mom was quite funny.
But soundtrack was painful, and the 'look' was not easy on my eye. Sure that was all part of the plan, to put you on edge, but really not my bag. Don't think I'll bother with Series 2. YMMV.
Grinding through 'Defeated' on Netflix now. To me, a bit of a missed opportunity as it is such a fascinating time in history. But subtle it ain't. The hero US cop comes across as utterly patronising, and sadly no push back from the Germans he works with. Added to this is a Russian villain straight out of Bond casting. But visually impressive and has me thinking about what a mess post-war Berlin really was, so it's doing something right.
White Lotus not really doing it for us either.
Hit and Run is OK though
Only character I ‘liked’ was Armond.
The characters were intended to mostly be dislikable, that's the point. The staff were disposable and the guests were ****s.
The characters were intended to mostly be dislikable, that’s the point.
Really? I hadn't figured that out [sarcasm].
But Succession did nasty rich people infinitely better. As did Arrested Development for that matter. You may not have 'liked' them, but you could build a relationship and be interested in what happened next. Had no really interest in any of the other characters in WL - if anything it felt like the guests were disposable by the end of the second episode.
The Netflix algorithm pointed me in the direction of Glow after i'd finished Community.
I'm glad it did, it was excellent. Think Cobra Kai with wrestling instead of karate and good acting instead of Ralph Macchio and William Zabka.
Watched Midsommar a couple of nights ago. Christ on a bendy bus, its utterly mental. Not in a bad way some of it is just a bit challenging, at one point I wondered if someone had slipped something into my beer while I was watching it!
I wanted to love Glow, but it just never happened, despite giving it at least 2 more episodes than I should have!.
Watched They Live the other night. 1980's B movie by John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape from New York etc)
It wasn't the best movie ever but I couldn't hate it and it had an interesting premise considering how long ago it was made. Definitely one to watch late night after a couple of beers though
I think you’ll find They Live is actually ****ing genius from start to finish 😀
Just started Nine Perfect Strangers on Amazon and it's a bit disappointing tbh. Expected more.
In Treatment is on Sky - not as good as the Gabriel Byrne version IMO, but how could it be?
Also started The Defeated on Netflix, about a NYPD detective in post-war Berlin. Pretty good so far!
We smashed all four seasons of The Good Place last week - loved it. 🙂
They Live is brilliant, even if just for the iconic imagery.
The Chair is not too bad, starting to grow on me. Bit odd and quirky.
Really enjoying Humans on Netflix so far.
Basically about humanoid androids that are used as carers/home makers but some are sentient.
Not your typical sci-fi of 'us vs the machines', it more focuses on the moral issues when the lines between human and machine are blurred, more of a psycological drama, think more blade runner/ ex machina / automata, if you've seen those, and also watch those if you like that kinda thing..
Saw the film, 'Calibre' set in highlands at the weekend. Pretty good - worth your time
Im just watching 'the defeated' after recommendations and its really good, but im just worried that as its a Netflix product it'll do an alan partridge, and not get a second series
love the bombed out Berlin look, very shabby chic
As per Vigil topic, I hope people making recommendations can confirm that there a suitable number of realistic defamation scenes.
The Defeated has been enjoyable.
It wasn’t the best movie ever
True, it's the second best - after Repo Man.
@thols2 Thanks for sharing that clip; 'Reservation Dogs' looks excellent and could well be worth finally subscribing to Disney+ - cheers!
Repo Man is stella.
Moviedrome was better though
"Heist". Netflix. Dramatised/ reconstructed real life heists.
Can't remember if it's been recommended on here, but we've watched 2 out of the 3 pairs of episodes and it's pretty entertaining. (Each story is split over 2 episodes).
Second story is pretty mad.
Heist (Netflix) is a wildly entertaining collection of true-crime stories that falls firmly into “you couldn’t make it up” territory. In forensic detail, this debut season recalls three audacious robberies, using recreations, interviews with key players on both sides of the law and archive news footage. Each tale is split over two episodes, with one building up to the crime and the second detailing the sometimes painfully slow downfall of those involved. It is occasionally trashy – the first, in particular, goes to town on the reconstructions – sometimes funny, tense and exciting. In terms of taking sides, it can be playfully, cheekily on-the-fence. Crime never pays, it argues. Or does it?
"That was intense!"
"Life of a repo man's always intense"
