Whilst recovering from my bike ride the other day i watched First Contact on Prime, a 24 year old film, it had 4 sets of 2 minute ads!
It was on Paramount+ for a while. On Netflix now according to Google.
Severance on Apple TV and Mobland on Paramount are both superb.
Tom Hardy in Havoc is brain off stupid ultraviolent fun, I quite liked it.
Unusually something good on ITV; Essex Millionaire Murders. Only two episodes but proper crazy story.
watched First Contact on Prime, a 24 year old film, it had 4 sets of 2 minute ads!
Forget Mission Impossible, and go watch Lost Bullet 1 2 and 3 on Netflix. Flying cars, flying bikes. No cgi as far as I known. The stunts are just stunning.
Enjoying season 2 of Poker Face on NowTV. 1st season was good fun and the 2nd is off to a strong start
Forget Mission Impossible, and go watch Lost Bullet 1 2 and 3 on Netflix. Flying cars, flying bikes. No cgi as far as I known. The stunts are just stunning.
Yeah, I read a review of those, they look like a lot of fun.
I watched The Gorge not so long ago, and really enjoyed it, intelligent SF with good characters and good interaction between the leads.
Something else I’ve read about recently that looks like tremendous fun is Murderbot, on Apple TV, a security android that hacks its own control systems and only wants to watch things on TV.
Slow Horses has a new series coming up, as does Black Doves, although that’s a little way ahead, but at least it’s been green lit.
Unusually something good on ITV
Actually I find myself watching itv more and more. Latest is Malpractice, which I suspect is wildly unrealistic, but still entertaining.
I watched The Gorge not so long ago, and really enjoyed it, intelligent SF with good characters and good interaction between the leads.
Struggling to believe we watched the same film! Maybe if I was 15 and hadn't seen all the scifi I've watched over the last thirty five years. It was a ridiculous plot!
Can I recommend the new Bergerac on U&Yesterday.
It’s not going to blow your socks off but as police dramas go it’s pretty decent. Only six episodes too. Shows potential and season 2 is in the works.
Pokerface is excellent, although I think in the second series they might have gone a bit heavy on the Columbo aping.
Still love it though.
Watched Mandy on Prime on Saturday night. A 1980s-set psychedelic horror movie with Nic Cage.
If you like the sound of that, you'll probably love it. Absolutely bonkers.
Tom Hardy in Havoc is brain off stupid ultraviolent fun
I should have known when I saw it sitting at #1 on Netflix that it was a gamble, but son#2 and myself decided to give it a go.
Jeezy peeps, that was proper garbage 😐 .
Maybe if we had had our brains removed ,loaded in to a centrifuge, then put make in place, it may have been acceptable 😉 🤣 🤣
Tom,Tim and Forest,what were you thinking of 😕
Tom,Tim and Forest,what were you thinking of
Gawd yeah, we didn't make it even half way though. Absolutely terrible. (Does Tom Hardy always walk like he's carrying a massive turd in his pants??) Directed by the fella who did "The Raid" too, which is pretty decent as far as action films go!
Yeah, we started watching Havoc for some Saturday night brain-out viewing. We binned it after about 30 minutes, it was dreadful.
Does Tom Hardy always walk like he's carrying a massive turd in his pants?
I've never understood all the fuss over him, he just never struck me as anything special. I tried watching Mobland but binned it after one episode, just too formulaic. Mr Inbetween is much better.
I've never understood all the fuss over him,
And yet.. I thought he was amazing in Taboo.
Maybe it's a dialogue thing with his style of acting, less is more.
👍 🙂
Oh, I like him as an actor, just not in Havoc. But I don't think it was entirely his fault. 🙂
Pokerface is excellent, although I think in the second series they might have gone a bit heavy on the Columbo aping.
I’ve only watched the first one of the second series but I also kept thinking of Columbo.
Watched the 2nd episode if the new Bruce Parry Tribe series. I don't fully agree with the earlier spoilers in this thread about it - I think the viewers are looking at it purely through our western eyes -not that I'm able to completely disassociate from that of course. Interesting to hear the tribe's views about it and also Bruce speak about his involvement with part of it after. Not a fun watch, but was well worth watching.
Yeah, we started watching Havoc for some Saturday night brain-out viewing. We binned it after about 30 minutes, it was dreadful.
The only interesting thing about Havoc is it was entirely shot in Wales. Which is some incredible CGI feat.
Murderbot on Apple has started OK. Not earth shattering, but mildly good.
Murderbot on Apple has started OK. Not earth shattering, but mildly good.
I'm a bit disappointed with Alexander Skarsgard, he comes across as too human. I think if he was more like Summer Glau in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles it would have worked better. She was quite creepy, a robot trying to pretend to be a human.
On Summer Glau, new series of Firefly?
Watched A Working Man on Prime last night. Good Statham action, although a bit po-faced compared to some of his others.
We also love his film titles:
Jason Statham is.... The Transporter!
Jason Statham is... The Mechanic!
Jason Statham is... A Beekeeper!
Jason Statham is.... I dunno, what've we got... some sort of Working Man?
Love a bit of Stath, almost always reliable action films. That said, Beekeeper was unexpectedly great, a genuinely excellent example of the genre I thought! Is he unique now in that there aren't any other A-listers still exclusively doing this kind of straight-up 80s/90s style action film? Obviously Dolpgh Lundgren et al will keep churning out action B-movies until they just can't do it anymore, but that's not really the same!
Have also been enjoying MobLand (Paramount+)... slightly less ridiculous than Gangs of London.
Mobland?!?! I just couldn’t get past pierce brosnan’s appalling accent. What on earth was he thinking? AND HE’S IRISH!
Ive just watched the Fred West documentary 3-parter on Netflix. “Good” is probably not the way I would describe it…. But it was certainly very well made, and told a story which I was vaguely familiar with from my youth, but soon realised I didn’t really know all that much about it.
Mobland?!?! I just couldn’t get past pierce brosnan’s appalling accent. What on earth was he thinking? AND HE’S IRISH!
fortunately he's not the main character otherwise yeah it would be completely unwatchable. 🤣
We enjoyed the (Netflix) Korean series "Weak Hero" - some crazy fights in it. The violence is kinda cartoonish (mostly they recover like Wiley Coyote ), but its good for being a bit different to most other streaming series.
I'm an episode into The Residence on Netflix. I'm planning on watching more. It's a murder mystery in the vein of Knives Out/Only Murders. We'll see if it's any good, but the first episode was alright.
We’ve watched most of the second series of Pokerface and it’s a fantastically good, fun bit of nonsense. All the nods not just to Columbo, but loads of old school TV shows are just brilliantly done.
One of those programmes where it looks like they all had an absolute ball making it
Welcome to Wrexham series 4 has started on Disney+. Very much a rinse and repeat of last year so far and a bit cheesy outside of the football, but the Americans will lap it up. Up the town!
I'm belatedly working through Fall of the House of Usher. It's... not bad. Gruesome, and slowly builds into being quite compelling
On no account watch Anatomy of a Fall on Netflix. Unless you love watching people talk incessantly. For 2 and a half hours. Jeez, there's a lot of dialogue. Also,
I am never watching another French film again.
I am never watching another French film again.
I came to that conclusion in about 1988.
Finally caught up This City is Ours (BBC1) that we recorded weeks ago and has been recommended on here
Good cast. Some procedural nonsense; would you dispose of a body in plastic that you'd handled without gloves?
Not too heavy, but a good story and overall we enjoyed it. Looking forward to S2
On no account watch Anatomy of a Fall on Netflix. Unless you love watching people talk incessantly. For 2 and a half hours. Jeez, there's a lot of dialogue. Also,
Really? I liked it a lot. True there’s dialogue, and no car chases or fight scenes.
On no account watch Anatomy of a Fall on Netflix. Unless you love watching people talk incessantly. For 2 and a half hours.
I must admit I struggled with it too.
Just didn't really care about or engage with any of the characters and felt it wasn't as clever as it thought it was.
Something I would recommend is the original Miami Vice series, now free on prime. More gritty and modern feeling than you might expect. Can really see the influence it's had.
I've just started Murder Mindfully on Netflix.
It's a German series described in the cover note as something like Better Call Saul meets Dexter. Early signs aren't bad. I don't mind subtitles though.
Black Snow on iPlayer is very watchable. Two series with great stories and good characters.
I've finally got to the latest series of Black Mirror. It's as good as ever.
Black Snow on iPlayer is very watchable. Two series with great stories and good characters
Seconded. Watch them in the correct order, if possible 🙂
Just started watching Mobland. Only on E02 but I'm liking the dark humour. A tad less violence than Gangs of London.
Being recently unemployed - I'm spending some time in the gym at the moment - specifically on the treadmill catching up on shows/movies.
Reviews so far:
Fountain of youth: Guy Richie's Indiana Jones/Romancing the Stone adventure. It's rated 12, and thats probably right - it would keep a 12 year old entertained, and thats about it. Looked stunning, and some decent set pieces - it was all just a bit lightweight. It about the same calibre as his "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare" - feels like something to watch on telly on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The "Eiza Gonzales" rule applies though - she's in it, therefore I will watch it.
Warfare: Had high hopes for this - but meh. It was ok. I can see how a load of US veterans were getting PTSD episodes from it - it did give the the feeling that it was an very faithful portrayal of an "engagement", with lots of stress and shouting. Most of my issue with it was that it was shot almost entirely within a small building (with the focus on the team within) - whereas everything was happening outside. There was a scene in black Hawk down where a small contingent of troops were holed-up in a small room, with their injured comrade lying on a table while they furiously tried to perform first aid on him. It was like 90 mins of that. It was a good film for sure, but didn't really do it for me.
Working man: The Stathe. Even by his recent standards.... this was terrible. Borderline unwatchable.
Murderbot: This is ok - not too serious, quite watchable.
Clarkson's Farm (latest series): I know this is going to be quite polarising. But being as objective as possible - this is good telly. This latest season is better than the last one - which is good, as the first 1 (2?) were a bit too "top-gear" - this one is better.
Havoc: Unwatchably shit. Tom Hardy is supposed to be "brooding" but he just comes across as perpetually confused. Not even Timothy Olyphant can save it.
I'm going to watch Micky 17 tomorrow - but it's over 2 hours long - so I might have to do that over 2 days
We started Dept Q on Netflix. Despite the main character being a rather extreme knobber, it seems very watchable so far.
I think it's decent. It's slightly like Slow Horses - the boss is an obnoxious dick and the others are misfits, but they get the job done.
the boss is an obnoxious dick
I don't mind that, but his fixation on bad parking is annoying 😉 🤣 🤣
Another shout out for The Residence. Like a long version of Knives Out... And I mean that in a good way. However if you didn't like Knives Out, you won't like The Residence either 🤣
Just finished Hierro S1, on Channel 4.
Murder on the Canary island of the same name, all very Spanish.
Some fantastic acting, and some amazing scenery, I really enjoyed it.
Quite dark in places, best not to watch with the children.
We’ve just finished Dept Q and thought it was great. I was just thinking how well the main character would fit in around here 😂
Dept Q. Great so far. Excellent first episode. Cleverly put together.
Finished your Friends and Neighbors (apple) - thoroughly enjoyed this cross-genre satire on the failure/success of the eastern wealth set of the USA. Something slightly different to crime procedural etc. John Hamm is great. Some sharp observations.
was recommended on here a few pages back i think, but really enjoying Jules and Gregs Wild Swim on iplayer.
some beautiful locations and beaches in scotland, water looks a bit fresh tho! theyre always laughing together and theres plenty of mental health discussions with the local wild swimming groups they meet.
jules was previously in balamory which id not heard (sounds a bit kids tv-ish), but what actually blew my mind was Greg was Victor in Still Game!!!!!
how does that even happen?? hes in his 50s now so must have been 30ish when it was filmed.
Haha, I was saying to my GF the other day, they better do a reunion show once they're actually in their 60s or 70s - but will they look like they did with all the make up?
She said Greg is a regular at an outdoor swimming spot she goes to in Glasgow.
Watched a few episodes of Dept Q, might finish it might not. The Edinburgh setting doesn't work for me as few of the characters sound like they come from Edinburgh. It might well have been fine if they had set it in the same area as the novels.
It might well have been fine if they had set it in the same area as the novels.
So it would be better to set it in Copenhagen than Edinburgh?
Yeah i thought it was Scandi-noir origin?
The Edinburgh setting doesn't work for me as few of the characters sound like they come from Edinburgh
If you live in any major city, you’ll find a hefty chunk of the population don't originally come from there. Didn’t even register with me and I thought Edinburgh made for a great location.
I couldn’t give a monkeys about where the book was set. I’m sure filming it in Copenhagen would have doubled the budget required. A major consideration in a TV production environment which is presently dying on its arse
We Both thought it was a fantastic first series, having finished it last night and bring on the next (there’s another 8 books, isn’t there?)
It’s certainly a big step up from the Harlen Coben dross that Netflix usually pump out under the guise of ‘drama’
So it would be better to set it in Copenhagen than Edinburgh?
You mean like the Danish movies it's based on?
Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes
You mean like the Danish movies it's based on?
That was sort of my point. To spell it out - what sense does it make to be unhappy that the cast don't have the right accent, and suggest it be transposed to a city where they don't even have the right language?
Blimey! It’s not like they shot it in Milton Keynes, is it? Edinburgh is a stunning backdrop, full of character.
I’m pretty sure Edinburgh council will have been fluttering its eye-lashes at Netflix and dropping heavy inducements to come and film the 9 series of their flagship drama there. As will plenty of other places
A lot of this stuff ends up being filmed in Bolton (all the aforementioned Harlen Coben stuff, for example) as despite most of the town centre being boarded up/vape shops/bookies, there’s also some stunning old architecture. Something Bolton council is very well-versed in pointing out to TV production companies
jules was previously in balamory which id not heard (sounds a bit kids tv-ish)
@sadexpunk wouldn't you like to know?
@sadexpunkwouldn't you like to know?
we-ell not really, but i googled it anyway and turns out i was right.
also googled the other chappie (ford kiernan) cos i thought no way was HE a young pup too, he must have definitely been an old man, and turns out he was 40!!
mind blown twice now 😀
Enjoyed Sirens (Netflix) - had a very White Lotus vibe to it.
We're watching Network Q. I'm enjoying it, but I'm increasingly getting the feeling that it's only just managing to not tip over from 'intricate and quirky' to 'convoluted and daft'. We'll see.
And, oddly, we've started watching Bruce Parry's 'Tribe' on iPlayer. Never saw them the first time. Blimmin'eck, you can't say he's not committed... Excellent viewing.
jules was previously in balamory which id not heard (sounds a bit kids tv-ish)
@sadexpunk wouldn't you like to know?
Great work 👏
Would I get banned for a "blowing a Hooley" joke?
I used to live in the big yellow house, that have been before Josie Jump's time though
Dept Q and Pokerface are the 2 we're watching now, since Our Friends and Neighbours season ended. Good TV, the former is a little like Slow Horses but with nastier but compelling characters.
Slow Horses season 5 to air from 27 Sept:
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/slow-horses-season-5-release-date-confirmed-newsupdate/
I really warmed to Friends and Neighbours. Likewise The Studio
Am enjoying Murderbot .
And that's about it right now. Just cancelled NowTV now the Last of Us has finished . Giving Dept Q a chance but otherwise seem to have run out of telly
I don't mind the Edinburgh setting on dept-q.
Someone has thought through the production design and carried the gothic theme all the way which that mushy 70s look. Bit of Trainspotting design in their with the lighting too.
Well I have watched all of Department Q , still don't think it's really got much in the script that sounds like Edinburgh but I might even watch another series if they make one.
Maybe TJ will be in it? Though his accent is disappointingly un-Edinburgh, despite his obvious cultural appropriation…
Just started watching 'Stick'
Ted Lasso for golf. Been OK so far.
We watched Mountainhead last night on Sky Atlantic and thought it lived up to the rave reviews it’s been getting…. it was excellent!
It’s got that air of Succession about it (which can only be a good thing), with the same brilliant scriptwriting. The main thing about it though, is that the nightmare scenario which it depicts seems all too terrifyingly plausible, given the recent behavior of the Tech Bro’s .
Well worth a watch
FUBAR season 2 lands today!
Netflix. Season 1 was great 🙂
