We enjoyed Sisu, he makes John Rambo look like a Boy Scout! I was intrigued by him having a Bedlington terrier though.
Posted : 17/03/2025 9:26 pm
Just finished Zero Day on Netflix.
Quite enjoyed it. Bob De Niro is good, but can't get past this...
Posted : 17/03/2025 10:16 pm
The OH's out on Thursday, so all being well I'll settle in for a night with Sisu...
The only thing bugging me about Paradise is the (godawful) covers of 80s songs at the end of each episode. I already hate breathy/ faux sentimental covers of originally good songs, but these ones are genuinely terrible. I start clenching up towards the end of each episode wondering what awful thing my ears are going to be subjected to this time...
Posted : 18/03/2025 10:12 am
S5 of What we do in the shadows is available on iplayer, ep7 is brilliant
Posted : 18/03/2025 10:38 am
Christ, just watched the latest episode of The White Lotus. Walton Goggins' and Sam Rockwell's reunion is one for the ages.
Yep. Say no more!
A special mention is also deserved for Parker Posey's southern mom pov on Buddhism.
Posted : 18/03/2025 1:03 pm
A special mention is also deserved for Parker Posey's southern mom pov on Buddhism
Yes, that whole family is fantastic but Parker Posey just nails that crazy Texas mom.
Posted : 18/03/2025 2:55 pm
S5 of What we do in the shadows is available on iplayer, ep7 is brilliant
nice, thanks for heads up
Posted : 18/03/2025 4:34 pm
Your outie smells of elderberries and holds a position of authority.
Posted : 20/03/2025 8:44 am
Sisu. Despite being rubbish, it's utterly brilliant! Well shot & acted, it's just a bit OTT at times. (When I say a bit OTT, it's a bit OTT a LOT!)
Recommend!
Posted : 20/03/2025 10:00 am
It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Dopethief, so now they have. With the guy from Atlanta. Really very very good. 3rd episode comes on Friday, Apple I think. And my outie and I are looking forward to it even more than than we are Severance.
Posted : 20/03/2025 10:36 am
Even though I liked Zero Day I did think it was drawn out. Probably didn’t help I watched it in one sitting.
I rewatched The Fall of the House of Usher and forgot how good it was.
Posted : 20/03/2025 1:17 pm
S5 of What we do in the shadows is available on iplayer, ep7 is brilliant
If you have Disney+, it's also on there but in much higher quality video/audio formats (and available a few weeks earlier).
Posted : 20/03/2025 2:03 pm
If you have Disney+, it's also on there but in much higher quality video/audio formats (and available a few weeks earlier).
Disney have S6 now, iPLayer only just got S5.
Only one episode left to watch, sadly.
Posted : 20/03/2025 4:32 pm
Some excellent acting in Operation Finale on Netflix
Posted : 20/03/2025 10:05 pm
Some excellent acting in Operation Finale on Netflix
The Spy with Sacha Baron Cohen is very good, based on the true story of a Mossad agent in 1967 and the prelude to the six-day war. Not a trace of rude boy, Ali-G
Posted : 20/03/2025 10:29 pm
BoardinBob reacted
I will have a look at that
Posted : 20/03/2025 10:43 pm
Watched Sisu last night. Exactly as you'd expect, very fun, and only 90 minutes. Win.
Posted : 21/03/2025 10:12 am
Sisu is about 3 years old .. what's made it get a boost up the Netflix rankings all of a sudden?
Last One Laughing (Prime) won't appeal to all, but had me laughing last night. Bob Mortimer is particularly brilliant.
Posted : 21/03/2025 11:24 am
Sisu is about 3 years old .. what's made it get a boost up the Netflix rankings all of a sudden?
It's only just made it Netflix, at least here. For most of those 3 years it wasn't any streaming service that I could find
Posted : 21/03/2025 2:23 pm
Inverse recommendation - The Borderlands movie just turned up on Prime and despite (or possibly because of) being a fan of the games, it is by far the worst thing I've seen in at least five years. Absolute slop, I managed about 20 minutes.
Posted : 21/03/2025 3:56 pm
Last One Laughing (Prime) won't appeal to all, but had me laughing last night. Bob Mortimer is particularly brilliant.
it’s a bit clunky, and DMC’s trying hard not to laugh face irritates me for some reason, but binged all available episodes last night.
Just finished the final ep of Severance, think the only answered question was the goats!
Posted : 21/03/2025 6:52 pm
Posted : 21/03/2025 7:55 pm
DMC’s trying hard not to laugh face i
Oh god, she’s a great actor, but not a comedian! That rollercoaster thing just had me frowning 🤨
Posted : 21/03/2025 8:01 pm
Just watched Counterattack (Netflix).
Latin American, dubbed into English. Pretty basic stuff: good (Special Forces) guys vs evil (drug cartel) guys but well filmed and it's kept tightly paced. The final fight scene is a bit ridiculous, the standard good guy vs bad guy throw down their guns and face off man to man with predictable result. Other than that, 90 minutes of worthwhile watching.
Posted : 21/03/2025 10:01 pm
Series, Resident Alien. Dark comedy about an Alien that's crash landed on Earth. Fairly good so far, 3 episodes in.
Posted : 21/03/2025 10:29 pm
I read about Residence (Netflix) in the Guardian. Heard it praised on Adrian Chiles today. Last night and tonight I did 4 episodes (rare for me to be awake still at 9:30) and it's brilliant.
Residence is the White House one. There's another Resident in Netflix which is about a hospital. It wasn't that.
Posted : 22/03/2025 12:01 am
I read about Residence (Netflix) in the Guardian. Heard it praised on Adrian Chiles today. Last night and tonight I did 4 episodes (rare for me to be awake still at 9:30) and it's brilliant.
It's a Shondaland production, I'm out.
Posted : 22/03/2025 1:34 am
Binged all available episodes of Last One Laughing and we're loving it despite initially being skeptical for much of the first episode but then you just kind of get into it. Can't see how they'll break Richard & Lou but we'll see.
Posted : 22/03/2025 10:49 am
Started on Get Millie Black on C4 player last night, pretty good after 3 episodes.
Posted : 22/03/2025 1:28 pm
Whoever recommended 1883 on the back of me liking American Primeval.. well thanks for the laugh! We’re forcing ourselves through about 3 or 4 eps, and its awful! The absolute icing on the cake was the “I’m sooo perty” girl playing Beethoven on an abandoned piano in a field! Incredible stuff 🤣 🤣
Posted : 27/03/2025 8:14 pm
Just watched The Order on Amazon; FBI V erw militia folk. Very good
Posted : 28/03/2025 2:52 pm
nicko74 reacted
It may have been covered before, but Boy Swallows Universe (Netflix) has been a mix of harrowing and whimsical in almost equal measure. It has a dark storyline with some great characters and side story going on. There are some serious mullets too.
Posted : 28/03/2025 6:04 pm
Another BBC i-player shout .
Imagine with 'The Academy of Armando' .
A very good look at Armando Iannucci's life and work.
Oh, and if you missed it,The Death of Stalin is still available.
Superb 🙂
Posted : 28/03/2025 6:17 pm
Watched Last One Laughing. First one was a bit slow as they introduced the game and contestants but once it got going it was very funny. There's an Irish version on there too which really hasn't hit the spot. More slapstick and prop comedy, not the same thing at all.
Posted : 30/03/2025 5:55 pm
roger_mellie reacted
Bruce Parry is back (it's been a decade!) with a new series of Tribe.
Beware, he has aged a bit in the meantime (again, it's been a decade!) 😉
Anyway, the first one was cracking viewing. Should be on iPlayer.
Posted : 31/03/2025 10:25 pm
juanking reacted
Whoever recommended 1883 on the back of me liking American Primeval.. well thanks for the laugh! We’re forcing ourselves through about 3 or 4 eps, and its awful! The absolute icing on the cake was the “I’m sooo perty” girl playing Beethoven on an abandoned piano in a field! Incredible stuff 🤣 🤣
That's the charm of it. Rather than just filth and rawness, there's the whole naïve overly sentimental view of a teenage girl. It's Taylor Sheridan's love letter to the untamed country.
Posted : 01/04/2025 10:15 am
There's a lot more to the cake of crapness than just the icing.
Posted : 01/04/2025 10:23 am
1883 was great, I loved it. The new one isn't as atmospheric but I'm watching it anyway
Also on paramount+ is landman
That is brilliant
Posted : 01/04/2025 11:55 am
Bruce Parry is back (it's been a decade!) with a new series of Tribe
Caught a good chunk of it at the weekend, not one for the squeamish with all that vom - but the older tribe member's sustained spew was unintentionally hilarious.
Last One Laughing (Prime) won't appeal to all, but had me laughing last night. Bob Mortimer is particularly brilliant.
Only watched 1.5 episodes so far, but loving it - Bob's performance had me in absolute stitches. How did they keep a straight face?
My money is on Judi or Richard for the win.
Posted : 01/04/2025 12:33 pm
roger_mellie reacted
Sheridan does perhaps stretch himself a little too thin - and the Costner debacle really screwed up Yellowstone - even though I thought the ending was a decent job. His politics do lean towards the angry conservative American working class but he writes great dialogue; likes a strong female character and has a good eye for explosions of violence.
Of his recent stuff:
Lioness s2 was great. Sherdian pops up a couple of times to flex his acting ego. The opening episode was manic. Although the plot is all over the place by the end. Zoe Saldaña on fire in this.
Mayor of Kingstown - different than Sheridan's other output as is litterally is disintegration of a city. Very grim with little gloss.
Landman was fantastic - a couple of daft plot points/episodes aside. BBT is so good in this. Has a lot of promise.
1923 S1 was a bit too 'Titanic' in its story telling. Enjoying S2 much more even though it's still sprawling to be getting anywhere much. There are some nice throw-forwards to Yellowstone (The train station and the beginning of the Ski resorts.) I think there's almost too many story threads going off with not enough attention back at the Ranch. Timothy Dalton's story arc is a bit of cringe though - not totally sure why it's so explicit. We get the picture. Overall I'm enjoying the bigger canvans though and it's interesting watching technology trickle down to the West.
1883 is fantastic and more rounded than American Primeval, which just amped up every possible version of grim. AP was a brutal journey. 1883's primary reason for its existence is to set the scene for Yellowstone, I think it does it well.
Remember he also wrote Hell or High Water and Sicario - always worth revisiting.
Posted : 01/04/2025 12:39 pm
fasthaggis reacted
It's only just made it Netflix, at least here. For most of those 3 years it wasn't any streaming service that I could find
Sky / NowTV maybe? I watched Sisu on streaming a good year ago but can't remember which. Content moves between the providers a lot, makes them all look busy. Jus****ch.com is great for finding who has what, very little isn't available somewhere.
Posted : 01/04/2025 2:36 pm
Oh lordy, who knew that just watch . com would activate the swear filter...
Posted : 01/04/2025 2:49 pm
chakaping reacted
Oh lordy, who knew that just watch . com would activate the swear filter...
A new variant of the S****horpe problem 😀
Posted : 01/04/2025 2:52 pm
nicko74 reacted
Remember he also wrote Hell or High Water and Sicario - always worth revisiting.
And also Wind River, which is very good.
Posted : 01/04/2025 11:13 pm
And also Wind River, which is very good.
Oh god yeah. Fantastic film. He directed that too.
I thougt "those who wish me dead" was a decent thrliller too.
Posted : 02/04/2025 7:21 am
roger_mellie reacted
he also wrote Hell or High Water
One of my favourite films. Perfectly cast... unlike 1883!
Talking of cast... penultimate ep of White Lotus: Scott Glenn as the old gangster geezer. Wow.
Posted : 02/04/2025 10:46 am
Last One Laughing (Prime) won't appeal to all, but had me laughing last night. Bob Mortimer is particularly brilliant.
Only watched 1.5 episodes so far, but loving it - Bob's performance had me in absolute stitches. How did they keep a straight face?My money is on Judi or Richard for the win.
Just finished that. Early episodes funny but the last one or two were stretching it beyond where I thought it worked well.
Posted : 02/04/2025 11:16 am
The bondsman on Prime. Kevin Bacon as an undead demon bounty hunter. Oh my, it is silly. For fans of supernatural and preacher. Liking it so far.
Posted : 03/04/2025 8:58 pm
3 episodes of The Bondsman done. Light entertainment, easy to watch. But that’s about it.
Posted : 03/04/2025 9:39 pm
new series of Tribe with bruce parry on iplayer. 1st episode in the amazon was great, more of what we expect from brucy, drug taking, vomiting etc.
2nd episode in angola is a bloody unsettling watch, should come with a health warning. dont say i didnt warn you 😀
fair play to him for immersing himself in their traditions tho, he certainly earns his wage.
Posted : 04/04/2025 6:30 am