I think unless there’s some sort of right dispute (eg The Expanse which was on Netflix but now isn’t) then they just stay there.
Not Netflix, but The Capture on BBC is bloody good stuff right now.
it doesn’t look so bad now in the time of reality tv…
Er, so I should watch some reality TV so that Baywatch looks good? Don't think I'll bother, but thanks for the tip 😆
Do big movies have a shelf life on Netflix? I keep trying to watch Bladerunner and not finding time.
I think there's a definite shelf life for some of them. I've noticed things disappearing and reappearing.
So, to answer your question, all those moments WILL be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I watched the latest version of Robin Hood, it was awful, but, I couldn't turn it off for some reason.
Still time to change your destiny, PJ.
The last great film of the decade?
Hope so.
Will really try and get to the limited cinema release for this. This cast and story is big screen though.
3.5 hrs long!
Glitch is back on with new series 3, plus last 2. Bonkers as ever, really enjoying it
Did anyone mention Top Boy?
Very good UK grime drama, someone told me it's "like a British version of The Wire" but I'd say it's much more like Gomorrah.
In tone and content.
Binged the whole series of Living With Yourself at the weekend. It really quite good.
Just finished season 2 of Mindhunter. Think Season 1 was slightly better but both really interesting
The Politician - by the makers of Glee, Nip/Tuck and Scream queens.
Dark, odd and the ending is a clear ramp up for season 2. It's crazy, but I enjoyed it.
Did anyone mention Top Boy?
Keep meaning to watch it - I notice there's a film as well though, which should I watch first?
WW2 in colour
Brilliant little series that will more than likely teach the average punter some things about the war that they didn't know. Particularly the build up to the greater conflict.
I notice there’s a film as well though
Is there? There were two older series from C4 and a new one on Netflix. All on Netflix now.
I can't find anything about a movie.
Start with Top Boy Summerhouse S1.
I watched The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind at the weekend..... very good.
https://www.netflix.com/search?q=the%20boy&jbv=80200047&jbp=2&jbr=0
Am giving Succession a go, due in part to the love for it here, and also in the wider media from those whose opinions I tend to agree with.
I’m two episodes in and not that impressed. Tell me it’s worth sticking with? 😐
Tell me it’s worth sticking with?
I thought it was brilliant, but it was basically cringe-comedy a lot of the time. A lot of the episodes just involved a bunch of really unpleasant people locked in a room being nasty to each other.
A lot of the episodes just involved a bunch of really unpleasant people locked in a room being nasty to each other.
That’s what I’m getting at. I can take a certain amount of that but all (sorry, most) of the characters seem to turn into walking clichés. I struggle to connect with a bunch of characters who I just want to see die in a freak building collapse (they’re all still in the hospital at the moment). Perhaps I’m missing something. I’ll stick with it for another episode or two.
Basically, as season 1 goes on, you see more and more clearly what an absolute monster the father is. The kids are horrible, but it's because of how horribly their father (and mother) have treated them. Kendall challenges his father for control of the company (because the father is quite obviously ill), but by the end of season 2, Kendall has been reduced to a hollow shell of a person. He walks and talks, but there isn't really a person left inside the emptied out husk.
Arctic is now on Netflix. Reviewed it a while back on here. One of the best films of 2019.
Binged the whole series of Living With Yourself at the weekend. It really quite good.
I binged it in one night as i like Paul Rudd. Enjoyable but daft.
Having watched it over the weekend I can thoroughly recommend giving Replicas a miss
Dolemite Is My Name
Watch out for Wesley Snipes he steals every scene he’s in.
Scandi (Norwegian) 'Nobel' has, two episodes in, been very good. I've liked pretty much everything Aksel Hennie has been in.
Enjoyed both Arctic and Replicas albeit for different reasons.
No mention of 'The King' yet? Henry V, battle of Agencourt. Slow paced but good film reminisent of BBC Dramas of old before they went full retard. Joel Edgerton did a great job writing and trying to keep it real, especially his accent.
Watch out for Wesley Snipes he steals every scene he’s in.
Yeah when he’s not up he’s own arse he can actually act.
Joel Edgerton did a great job writing and trying to keep it real a fantasy.
I'm enjoying The Kominsky Method at the moment.
I would recomend you dont watch topboy. I found it repulsive the way the exploitation on kids and ruining of lives by drugs for money way sort of glossed over as normal and the characters doing it presented as some kind of heros. And I watch anything usually but that just grates so badly.
The king was a great watch recently if you like that sort of thing.
I hear what you say about drugs etc silverneedle (??), and I'm sure if I was a black british actor I'd feel at least conflicted about getting cast in Top Boy (loads of parts for strong and complex characters, woo hoo; mainly drug dealers, doh). For me sure it's a slightly guilty watch. Having brought three kids up round some of the locations - nice to see they still sell emaciated chickens on Ridley Road - I'd say it's not a totally invented world it's set in, it is good drama and a good production. Just be good to see the actors getting parts across the board.
I'm watching Top Boy as well, really enjoying it and it strikes a cord with me. When I first moved over here I worked for a major computer company doing warranty work and that area was my patch. I hated going in those tower blocks. To be fair to the residents I never had a problem but the walk in was always a bit of a worry.
I understand what Silverneedle says but for some people that's their reality. It is a London based Wire though.
I watched The King this week, it was pretty good. Not fully Shakespeare-y but enough to feel high-brow with some good action scenes.
I'd post a link to a trailer, but work has restricted mode enabled on you tube...
the characters doing it presented as some kind of heros.
I'm pretty sure that was not the intention, and certainly not how I read it.
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I’m enjoying The Kominsky Method at the moment.
I'm intrigued as to how. Is it actually funny?
I'd say K Method isn't laugh out loud. It's just a well produced portrayal of ageing which I think shows the humour associated with things e.g. prostates, age gap relationships, death.
Joel Edgerton did a great job writing and trying to keep it real a fantasy
You may be right, the French are not happy:
Arctic is now on Netflix. Reviewed it a while back on here. One of the best films of 2019
I watched this at the weekend and have mixed feelings. Very well made and absorbing but it was just a bit too grim for me. I know it's not perhaps the point of it but I would've like to see more on his life and how he ended up there at the start and more of a conclusion as well.
Finally got around to binge watching Top Boy over the weekend, good recommendation (although I wish I'd noticed Chakaping's note to watch the older Summerhouse series first - doh)
Totally disagree with:
I would recomend you dont watch topboy. I found it repulsive the way the exploitation on kids and ruining of lives by drugs for money way sort of glossed over as normal and the characters doing it presented as some kind of heros
I don't think it glamorised it in anyway nor made heroes of the main characters. They were all shown to be in a generally very shit situation and any 'victory' was fleeting at best. Whilst drugs and violence are the norm in the show that's just because that's the situation it's set in, it's not glossing over things
The last great film of the decade?
Hope so.
Will really try and get to the limited cinema release for this. This cast and story is big screen though.
3.5 hrs long!
I can't wait to see 'The Irishman' early reviews have been good, torn between whether the deaging tech is great or distracting and whether it's an epic or a bit too long.
I've decided not to watch it at the cinema, at 3.5 hours it's just too long for me, add in the usual 30-45 mins of ads and trailers and I can't see me sitting still for that long, however good it is. I'll watch it at home and take an Interval in the middle.
Just finished season 2 of Mindhunter. Think Season 1 was slightly better but both really interesting
I re-discovered Mindhunter a few weeks ago, I watched S1E1 when it was first released and for whatever reason it didn't work for me, I think it was probably my Wife moaning and chatting through it because she didn't want to watch it probably. Anyway I went back to it and loved both series. I even like the 'soap opera' elements of it.
watched 'Living with yourself' fan of both Rudd & Aisling Bea and the premise sounded good but it never really went anywhere. tripe.
. I’ll watch it at home and take an Interval in the middle
Sounds wise but I sat through Silence without much issue and that was quite long.
Got to find an arty cinema that's showing it. Maybe Sheffield.
Not Netflix but Prime. Binged on Jack Ryan Season 1 and now enjoying 2 just as much. Trying to savour this one more slowly because 8 episodes fly by. Good popcorn stuff with spies and Noomi Rapace.
Will try that cheers MR.
Need more decent quality brain-out entertainment after finishing Man In The High Castle on there.
Just finished Jack Ryan Season 2: Meh. I mean, it was never going to be Le Carre, but it was fairly dire, and not as good as the first one. Goliath (all 3 seasons) is excellent though.
I'm working through Patriot on Prime. The OH managed about 1.5 episodes before checking out, but I'm keeping it going. It's... not bad, with a few wry chuckles.
I was also watching PEaky Blinders but couldn't really stick at it - I didn't care enough about the characters tbh
Prime.... South Park Season 23 - Randy Marsh as a pot farmer.
Netflix....Bojack Horseman - new season out.
I’m working through Patriot on Prime. The OH managed about 1.5 episodes before checking out, but I’m keeping it going. It’s… not bad, with a few wry chuckles.
I really liked s1 of it, I'd forgotten most of what happened by the time s2 was released though and didn't really get back into it so bailed after a couple of episodes - might give it another go though
I know it’s not perhaps the point of it but I would’ve like to see more on his life and how he ended up there at the start and more of a conclusion as well.
I really liked they didn't do the typical 'crash' beginning.
Living with yourself started promising, but has fizzled out 5 episodes in. Apart from Aisling Bea, who is bloody lovely. 🙂
Rick and Morty is coming back (season 4), but Channel 4 have the options on it, so will be ages before Netflix have it.
I want to go to froopy land!
I thought The King was terrible, in a cliche driven sub-Shakespearean way. The characters were literally drawn from the parts bin. Here; the reluctant King, there the grasping Bishop, here the Mad French Pretender to the throne, does he care soley about fashion and speak with an outrageous accent...Why yes, yes he does. Is there a two faced advisor,? Tick. And a loyal and doomed grizzled old campaigner who speaks only in homilies? Gotcha.
It was as accurate as an episode of Blackadder, but without the decent script. At least you can play Spot the mobile phone mast...
I've been enjoying Stumptown, nothing groundbreaking or thought provoking, but decent cast doing an entertaining take on police procedural.
Just finished Jack Ryan Season 2: Meh. I mean, it was never going to be Le Carre
When I said ‘popcorn’ I meant easy on the smoothbrain.
I also have a weird ability to enjoy Prison Break as well as The Seventh Seal, depending on mood of course 😎
Haven’t seen Goliath, thought about it but for some reason BBT gets up the collective household nose. I did like him in A Simple Plan though. Maybe will give it a try.
Back to Netflix - enjoyed ‘Ozark’. And ‘Making A Murderer’
Aisling Bea, who is bloody lovely.
Smelly feet
I can’t wait to see ‘The Irishman’ early reviews have been good, torn between whether the deaging tech is great or distracting and whether it’s an epic or a bit too long.
I’ve decided not to watch it at the cinema, at 3.5 hours it’s just too long for me, add in the usual 30-45 mins of ads and trailers and I can’t see me sitting still for that long, however good it is. I’ll watch it at home and take an Interval in the middle.
Yup,I had thought the same when I saw it was a 3.5 hour runtime . That's a heavy investment if you end up sitting close to any students cinema cretins, but I now have a cunning plan in place of how to time my challenge. Also looking forward to the Netflix viewing (s) .
Haven’t seen Goliath,
It could have been good, but it just ended up being silly.
Looking forward to The Irishman.
Mindhunter S2 has been some of the best content I've seen in years.
Again, not Netflix but Prime, but The Longest Day in Chang'an is an absolutely unexpected delight. Terrorism, espionage, politics, murder, war, gangsters, slavery depicted over one day; 24 it is not, thankfully.
Anyone else watching it?
I'd seen Mindhunter recommended several times but didn't really feel the appeal, watched the first episode and I could take it or leave it at that point but stuck with it and it really grabbed me, one of the best thing I've seen in a while.
Just made the trip to see the Irishman in a cinema before it hits Netflix.
Actually quite disappointed. The talent involved doesn't really make it on to the screen.
Decent performances as you would expect but the script is just lacking a dynamic. Scenes and emotions just don't connect. Has a TV movie vibe about it with little flair or craft. I also found it somewhat confusing too.
I had dialed my expectations down because of the fact this film is a meditation on age as much as anything. And actually that's the most successful bit - I really enjoyed the last hour where things start to wind down rather than the 'gangster' scenes which felt clumsy and lacking direction.
I didn't have a problem with the de-aging. I think too much has been said about so you have a tendency to focus on it but actually I thought it was quite an achievement - if not perfect.
Music, camerawork and editing are all pegged back.
De-Niro and Pesci come out on top, with Pacino not really adding much in my opinion but I think this is the fault of the script that doesn't give them great scenes to play off each other.
Certainly not the last great film of the decade I thought it would be!
I will definitely watch this again on Netflix on the 27th. Kudos to Netflix and Scorsese for pushing various boundaries of cinema though.
For almost 3.5 hrs it didn't seem that long to be fair.
Trollhunter popped up on my list, cheesy take on Blair witch which doesn't take itself too seriously. Now planning a holiday to the artic circle.
Just want to say The Crown is one of the best things ever made for TV. Everything about it brilliant. Nearly finished the new series.
*Prime* The latest episode of Mr Robot was pure class, following on from the recent near silent episode. Story telling at its best.
Just want to say The Crown is one of the best things ever made for TV. Everything about it brilliant. Nearly finished the new series.
The acting is great and it's beautifully produced, but increasingly it feels like an overblown melodrama to me. And the exposition dialogue scenes (e.g. the conversations between Wilson and the Queen) just don't ring true.
really need to catch up with Mr Robot, not seen past S1.
Really need to start on The Crown.
not flix or prime, but really enjoyed The Cockfields on Gold.
only 3 episodes, but solid subtle comedy, not as alternative as you might expect from Philomena Cunk and Joe Wilkinson, just good wholesome tele.
The acting is great and it’s beautifully produced, but increasingly it feels like an overblown melodrama to me. And the exposition dialogue scenes (e.g. the conversations between Wilson and the Queen) just don’t ring true.
Maybe not but there is plenty of poetic licence I think.
Episode 2 about Aberfan was particularly well done.
The acting is great and it’s beautifully produced, but increasingly it feels like an overblown melodrama to me. And the exposition dialogue scenes (e.g. the conversations between Wilson and the Queen) just don’t ring true.
Watched Ep1 of the new series at the weekend. I'm torn, I can't tell whether the characters have changed to represent their changing attitudes / world in the years between series, or the new actors are doing it differently, or the writers have just changed them.
In previous series and in other more modern depictions of the Queen she's usually forward thinking and accepting of change, maybe it's just Ep1 but she's become a bit Gammony, I suppose we all do to a certain extent when we get older, can't tell if it's good or bad really ha ha.
Episode 2 about Aberfan was particularly well done.
Going to watch that tonight I think, some of it was filmed at the end of my road (Whitchurch Hospital) so if it crap I can play the old "I know where that is" game like we used to with Doctor Who.
The Irishman is up.
Interested in people's views in the home after my luke-warm cinema experience.
Very much enjoyed Dolomite Is My Name.
Funny and uplifting, but not very family friendly. Eddie Murphy can be very charismatic when he wants to.
We've just finished Season 1 of Jessica Jones, mainly watched it for David Tennant. Not bad, but not amazing. Not sure if we'll start Season 2 - any good?
We watched the three English episodes of Criminal and a couple of the French ones, but lost interest. OK ish.
^unless you’re a fan of Carrie-Anne Moss, I wouldn’t bother. It also develops the Trish/Patsy character, but I found her almost as unsympathetic as the lead. I’ve given up on S3 as it just gets worse IMO.
Just want to say The Crown is one of the best things ever made for TV. Everything about it brilliant. Nearly finished the new series.
Enjoyed series 3 but I never really warmed to Helena Bonham Carter’s Princess Margaret. Vanessa Kirby did such a great job in the preceding two series, that she is a hard act to follow.
The Aberfan epsisode. for me, was the stand-out episode of series 3.
The Aberfan epsisode. for me, was the stand-out episode of series 3.
Agreed. That episode did a lot dramatically, and with a lot of silence.
The cinematography was amazing. The pre-credit scene was bathed in shards of sun against the rain. Gave a real sense of dread.
The Irishman was ok I thought not great. I couldn’t stop wondering what was up with De Niro’s eyes some sort of colored contacts or something?
Season 4 of The Expanse is coming in December apparently.
Also disappointed by Jack Ryan S2; the writing was very much by the numbers. Likeable characters though.
Just finished watching Helix. Erm yes. S1 was quite good, a bit bonkers in places but overall quite enjoyable. S2 started ok then just went utterly out of control. Can see why S3 wasn’t commissioned!
. I couldn’t stop wondering what was up with De Niro’s eyes some sort of colored contacts or something
You're seeing some of the artefacts of CGI de-aging that's not quite right.
Watched the Irishman yesterday, 3.5 hours of my life I’m not getting back.