Streaming recommendations (including Netflix)

Oh, cool, missed him. Couldn’t see on IMDB, but anyway, how good is Hugh Grant?? 😀

We watched The Unforgivable Last night.
I’m not a Sandra Bullock fan but We both really njoyed it .

I quite enjoyed Dont Look Up….but it was background TV,

See also…Red Notice.

Aye, I agree Death to 2021 just doesn’t work. Philomena Cunk needs Barry Shitpeas and Charlie Brooker needs to be on screen ranting…

The voiceover is to dry, it really does need an angry anchor to make it kick.  It’s not like the yanks can’t cope with it, bring in Jon Stewart or John Oliver.

One to watch with the kids is Robin Robin. It’s really good! Watched it for a second time a few days later and it was just as good, really dense and well put together. Richard E Grant’s Magpie steals the show.

Been waiting for it for a while as friends did the music. Very worth the wait!

I thought Don’t Look Up was quite good.

Could have been very good with some tighter editing.

I thought Don’t Look Up was quite good.

Could have been very good with some tighter editing.

Yup,you had to watch it with your Team America-World Police head on.

I thought Don’t Look Up was quite good.

I thought it was heavy handed and also its very difficult to parody Trump and post truth media when they are already self parodies.

As above the Witcher is an an easy watch, but it did seem a particularly slow season that suddenly wrapped all the action up in one episode.

Arcane is the best series I’ve watched all year though. Not normally a fan of animated shows but the art style, acting and plot are all incredible.

Death to 2021 was alright. Not anywhere near as good as screen wipe days though. Good to see Tracey Ullman after her stint on curb your enthusiasm

I think Charlie Brooker is Netflix’s golden goose at the minute

I don’t think Barry shitpeas got past the first round table with the US production staff

I thought Don’t Look Up was quite good.

I thought it was heavy handed and also its very difficult to parody Trump and post truth media when they are already self parodies.

I agree with you, but it was still decent IMO. Not Armando Ianucci quality, but a solid three stars: enjoyable, overlong with some great performances and some funny lines.

Jonah Hill was particularly good as Donald Trump Jr, or whatever they called him in it.

Don’t look up,
It’s a 👍from me and
A 👎from MrsBeanZ.

Yep, Don’t Look Up gets a 👍🏻 from me. Thought it was great, as someone earlier said it’s a bit heavy handed but I still thought it worked well.

We finished watching Clickbait last night, very watchable.

Silent Sea is excellent. Its a Korean Sci Fi mini series better watched in Korean with Subtitles as the dubbing is very wooden, but its a very good watch.

Stay close is watchable, watched 3 episodes last night, which is wayyyy more than I ever watch of anything in one sitting!

I watched the big short the other day, really good.

+1 Jojo Rabbit. Very well written.

[it’s on Prime though, not Netflix]

Jojo Rabbit is a great film, agreed.

If you like zombie series, black summer is really good, more atmospheric and slow than your typical one, but more gritty and well done I thought.

if Don’t look up comes across as unsubtle you missed half of it.

it’s probably one of the most important films made for a while.

It scared the pants off me and should scare everyone – haven’t seen anything that scary since Threads

if Don’t look up comes across as unsubtle you missed half of it.

it’s probably one of the most important films made for a while.

It scared the pants off me and should scare everyone

It struck me as a smarter more up to date take on Idiocracy, which is still very relevant, which is terrifying, really.

My mate asked – is that the one with the comet/asteroid? I said, well yes, but that’s more the background scenery rather than what the film is about.

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If you like zombie series, black summer is really good, more atmospheric and slow than your typical one, but more gritty and well done I thought.

I agree, I watch any half decent zombie series/ movies, love’em! Although it was a slow burn at times it was genuinely bloody creepy in places and I don’t really do creepy anymore as I’m so attenuated to it.Lol

That hotel in the snowy waste lands. Sphincter clench time for me more than once!

Great series if you have any interest in the genre at all.👍

@mattyfez There are some great reviews which so spectacularly miss the main satirical points you almost think they must have been put out there by the script writers…then you realise they weren’t….then you get more scared.

Yep, Don’t Look Up, a contemporary Dr Strangelove.

Just got round to watching Rocketman. Wow!

Probably mentioned before now, but This Way Up is on Netflix now and is very funny and real.

It’s a post-Fleabag kinda sitcom.

I don’t normally go for BBC mini series, but I’m really enjoying The Tourist on iPlayer. Reminds me of Red Rock West with Aussie humour, the opening was very much like Duel (1971) in a good way.

Give the Crowned Clown a go, it’s another South Korean series, very well done if you can forgive some of the soundtrack fubars..

Jo jo rabbit is free on Disney fyi.

The OH and I watched The lost daughter (or something like that..oliva Colman.

Complete TRIPE…. Literally, going through the slide show my nan’s holiday snaps when we were 8 was more fun and interesting.

It should be called “slightly odd woman has beach nholiday and we film bits of it…”!

DrP

Silent Sea is excellent. Its a Korean Sci Fi mini series better watched in Korean with Subtitles as the dubbing is very wooden, but its a very good watch.

It’s entertaining seeing the actors who usually play hard-bitten cops from downtown Seoul cast as astronauts.

But….what’s going on with the gravity? They’re on the moon, so gravity should be about 1/5th regular, and yet everything happens as though they’re back here on earth. Or is there going to be some big reveal? At this point I’m mainly watching it for the hilarity factor.

DrP’s nan has affair with professor shock! Steals a doll and upsets a child 😲

I thought The Lost Daughter was ok. Very actory and slow paced. But Olivia Coleman puts in a good performance. How they can have Jessie Buckley playing her younger self though when one has earlobes and the other doesn’t, I mean you can’t just grow earlobes! Attention to detail Ms. Gyllenhaal!

Jo jo rabbit is free on Disney fyi.

Free? 😄

If Don’t look up comes across as unsubtle you missed half of it.

it’s probably one of the most important films made for a while.

It scared the pants off me and should scare everyone – haven’t seen anything that scary since Threads

100% this. What is depicted is akin to our handling of Ebola and Bird Flu and the initial reactions to Covid19. Take comet and swap it for the climate crisis and it’s a documentary rather than a parody.

I watched it on NYE, and woke up on New Year’s Day in a bit of a panic!

It’s definitely the least subtle satirical film i’ve seen for a while, it’s not the kind of Iannucci scripted film, it’s more the naked guns style but without the slapstick element!

Finished Arcane yesterday, absolutely loved every minute of it.

Glad it’s not just me who was traumatised by Don’t Look Up.

The OH and I watched The lost daughter (or something like that..oliva Colman.

Complete TRIPE…. Literally, going through the slide show my nan’s holiday snaps when we were 8 was more fun and interesting.

It should be called “slightly odd woman has beach nholiday and we film bits of it…”!

Good to know, I saw that on there after hearing Kermode and MAyo get a bit beard-stroky about it. Sounds like it’s tailored to the critics in classic “but I’m *acting*!!” style

The OH and I watched The lost daughter (or something like that..oliva Colman. Complete TRIPE

It’s based on the Elena Ferrante novella of the same name,( which is much better) and it got somewhat lost in the translation. I thought Maggie Gyllenhaal’s direction was pretty poor which didn’t help.