What movies or TV shows are you watching now?

[BookMan]

Glad to read this.

NBC Renews The Blacklist, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., SVU, and Grimm

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-blacklist/community/post/nbc-renews-the-blacklist-chicago-fire-chicago-pd-law-and-order-svu-grimm-142316248302/

Khun Will27, Khun BM will also be pleased that The Following kicks off Season 3 next month

As for the rest of this weeks TV, there's so much to watch! Thankfully Saturday's and Sunday's are quiet on the TV front so I can catch up!

Looking forward to getting to know "Allegiance" which kicked off last night...

I hope they have learnt how to use a phone and call for assistance

[i claudius]

For you Brits ,there is a new series of "Ross Kemp" visiting the most dangerous places in the world ,ok for a bit of light tv watching.

[uptheos]

Birdman (2014)

Excellent performance by Michael Keaton. A washed up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.

Review here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/birdman_2014/

[uptheos]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy, becomes Gustave's friend and protege. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When one of Gustave's lovers dies mysteriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.

Review here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_grand_budapest_hotel/

Edited February 7, 2015 by uptheos

[Frank James]

The Equalizer, Redux...

Denzel Washington ALWAYS delivers a solid performance, even in a preposterous recycled TV show "action" film destined to become a cash cow "Franchise Vehicle" for DW. This is just good old mindless, violent, guilty pleasurous FUN! See Denzel single handedly deal rough justice to corrupt cops and Russian gangsters! See Denzel working at a humble Home Depot job by day, righting wrongs all night. if you could never envision anyone filling the role done to perfection by Edward Woodward (R.I.P.), think again. There's a New Equalizer in town, and Denzel is The Man.

Denzel must've figured, "Hey, if Bobby Downey Junior can make outrageous coin with that dumbass Iron Man series, I can turn this Equalizer thing into gold for my Golden Years!"

Antoine Fuqua's direction turns this thrill ride into a much better than average parade of mayhem.

EIGHT, with a corkscrew through the neck!

Edited February 7, 2015 by Frank James

[Patsycat]

I think we are starting to get an insight in the Blacklist. I knew it was the teddy bear....

All the rest - i know what i like to watch. I shall review later. Denzel, you say - i shall do my bit. He is my bit of fluff.... Man on Fire is one of my all time favourites.

Edited February 8, 2015 by Patsycat

[Frank James]

Gone Girl...

Ben Affleck is one of those actors who seems to arouse strong feeling in movie fans. People either seem to hate him, apparently over his high profile private life, or "love" him. I think he's a pretty decent actor, who has turned in good performances in most of the films I've seen him in. He carries a big load in Gone Girl, and sells the role quite well. He's a regular Midwestern guy who went to the Big Apple and did OK for a while, and ended up marrying above his class, to a lady he perhaps should have checked out a little closer.

The best selling novel by Gillian Flynn has been turned into a very interesting film, with the screenplay also written by the author. That is highly unusual for a Hollywood movie. The action is very taut, and unpredictable, but for me the momentum slowed down quite a bit toward the end, and the believability of the story stated to fall apart.

Rosamund Pike really owns this picture. Here's yet another UK actor cast as a completely believable (except that she's a pathological liar) American fairly hi-so lady. She's the best female psycho on film since Glenn Close threw acid all over Michael Douglas' Volvo, and drowned the rabbit, in Fatal Attraction. ("I WON"T be Ignored!!")

The one glaring weak link, in my opinion, is the casting of Neil Patrick Harris as the ex-boyfriend, rich guy rescuer. He's a fine actor, but I just couldn't suspend disbelief, and forget that he is a famously well-adjusted gay guy, in "real life." This doesn't mean he should always play a gay man, but the chemistry between he and Rosamund just isn't visible on screen in this one.

At 2 hours, twenty-eight minutes, the film feels about a half hour too long. All of the points have been well covered before two hours is up. I know that many will disagree. A worthy effort, well directed by David Fincher. But next time, tighten up the editing.

SEVEN point Seven-Five.

[Ulysses G.]

I liked Gone Girl too, but HATED the ending - although it was fun getting there! I really did not have problem with Neil Patrick Harris playing a straight guy though.

[digbat]

Wild Card was quite entertaining, with Jason (The Transporter) Statham.

Bit violent in places, but what do you expect from a former SAS person.

I take it you are joking AOA..... he was about as much S.A.S as those guys holding up the bar in Pattaya.......

A male model most of the time (for French connection clothing)when he wasn't working on his Dad's market stall, he did dive though & made the national team. (I think that was where he was spotted & offered the job as a model.)

[BookMan]

Wild Card was quite entertaining, with Jason (The Transporter) Statham.

Bit violent in places, but what do you expect from a former SAS person.

I take it you are joking AOA..... he was about as much S.A.S as those guys holding up the bar in Pattaya.......

A male model most of the time (for French connection clothing)when he wasn't working on his Dad's market stall, he did dive though & made the national team. (I think that was where he was spotted & offered the job as a model.)

It's rumoured AOA might be ex special forces himself.

[craigt3365]

I know this movie is a bit old, and a bit controversial for some, but the Stoning of Soraya is quite good...though disturbing. Really shows how some allow religion to be used for ill intents.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277737/

[uptheos]

Battle Royale (2000)

A Japanese film that some of you might have seen. It is set In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation’s youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left. It's a movie that sort of preempted The Hunger Games by 9 years and worth a watch.

Review here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale_3d

[kayo]

Battle Royale is an excellent film

My recommendation for today:

wiki entry:

The Wee Man is a 2013 Scottish gangster film directed by Ray Burdis which depicts the true life story of Scottish criminal Paul Ferris. It stars Martin Compston and John Hannah.

The film was deemed so controversial that Strathclyde police refused to help the filmmakers make the film in Glasgow, Ferris's native city. The production team had to film in London instead due to the lack of support from the legal authorities in Glasgow.

But don't watch it if you are not in the mood.

[uptheos]

'71 (2014)

Jack O'Connell stars as Gary Hook, a young squaddie fresh out of training school, whose unit is dispatched to help with peacekeeping in the Northern Irish capital amid the rising tensions of that fatefully violent year.

Review here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/71_2015/

[rijit]

Sent from my GT-I9000 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Selma, the story of martin luther kings hazardous journey to get equal voting rights for all americans 8/10

[uptheos]

Still Alice (2014)

I read the book some time ago and really liked it, though I found it a little disturbing. Here was a cognitive psychology professor of all things and was starting to lose her cognitive abilities. I am always a bit disappointed with books that are made into movies, but I was invited to watch this movie and I really do think it was quite well made and Julianne Moore played the role of Alice Howland very well. Yes, I know she won the Bafta for it last night and I do like her very much, but I would have given the award to Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl, though not a lot between them.

Review Alice here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/still_alice

[DM07]

Series:

The Walking Dead

Gotham

Helix

The Strain

Good movies lately:

Night Crawler (Creepy as hell!)

Guardians of the Galaxy ( I had a blast!)

and...yes..."Spongebob- The Movie" (such a good laugh!)...even better, if you have kids!

[Will27]

Oh no gang

KA Torrents has been taken down.

http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

Edited February 9, 2015 by Will27

[rijit]

Oh no gang

KA Torrents has been taken down.

http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

try this, http://watchseries.biz/

for tv streaming its excellent, updated daily so if its aired on monday 9 times out of ten its available on this site on Tuesday.

and for film streaming i use this site http://www.vumoo.me/

any better suggestions welcome

Edited February 9, 2015 by rijit

[JB300]

Just finished the final episode of the first series of "The 100" & it has every sign of turning into another "Lost", somebody please tell me it's worth watching S2 (or save me from the misery).

Edited February 9, 2015 by JB300

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Wild Card was quite entertaining, with Jason (The Transporter) Statham.

Bit violent in places, but what do you expect from a former SAS person.

I take it you are joking AOA..... he was about as much S.A.S as those guys holding up the bar in Pattaya.......

A male model most of the time (for French connection clothing)when he wasn't working on his Dad's market stall, he did dive though & made the national team. (I think that was where he was spotted & offered the job as a model.)

It's rumoured AOA might be ex special forces himself.

Marine.

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Series:

The Walking Dead

Gotham

Helix

The Strain

Good movies lately:

Night Crawler (Creepy as hell!)

Guardians of the Galaxy ( I had a blast!)

and...yes..."Spongebob- The Movie" (such a good laugh!)...even better, if you have kids!

New half season of Walking Dead first episode out today.

[Ulysses G.]

It's rumoured AOA might be ex special forces himself.

Marine.

Semper Fi!

Edited February 9, 2015 by Ulysses G.

[Ulysses G.]

Oh no gang

KA Torrents has been taken down.

http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

try this,

for tv streaming its excellent, updated daily so if its aired on monday 9 times out of ten its available on this site on Tuesday.

and for film streaming i use this site

any better suggestions welcome

I was wondering about KA. Also, every PB proxy I've tried has been down or blocked, including the two others suggested above. KA has gone back an old address.

https://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

Edited February 9, 2015 by Ulysses G.

[i claudius]

Oh no gang

KA Torrents has been taken down.

http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

try this, http://watchseries.biz/

for tv streaming its excellent, updated daily so if its aired on monday 9 times out of ten its available on this site on Tuesday.

and for film streaming i use this site http://www.vumoo.me/

any better suggestions welcome

just downloaded better call Saul from there

[Jip99]

The Imitation Game

Very good movie, first class performance by Benedict.

Review here http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_imitation_game/?search=The%20Imitation%20Game

You can watch it here http://rainierland.com/movie/the-imitation-game-2014.html

Saw this last week when in Bangkok.

Brilliant movie and Cumberbatch is so convincing.

Really, really enjoyed it and my Thai missus got it as well. She cried at the end and said how could they treat a man, who had done so much, like that....

[keemapoot]

Oh no gang

KA Torrents has been taken down.

http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

try this, http://watchseries.biz/

for tv streaming its excellent, updated daily so if its aired on monday 9 times out of ten its available on this site on Tuesday.

and for film streaming i use this site http://www.vumoo.me/

any better suggestions welcome

just downloaded better call Saul from there

Yup, I'm downloading the same from the kat.to domain. The old kat.ph and so domains are taken down, but the site is working fine. Wow, this is getting hairy.

[Frank James]

The Judge (2014)

Here we have Robert Downey Jr. stepping away from the Iron Man cartoons, and his very unconvincing take on the Sherlock Holmes legend, (Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict C. have that one COVERED, Bob!) and playing the type of character that nobody does better...the fast talking, somewhat annoying, brilliant lawyer. The Judge is a rather old fashioned father and son reunion type of picture, that I usually enjoy. The ultimate example of this genre is the old Gene Hackman masterwork, I Never Sang for My Father.

Robert Duvall is excellent as his father, the old judge, who is now up on charges for vehicular homicide. He doesn't want his son, the big city lawyer, to defend him, but of course he changes his mind. The whole cast is a fantastic ensemble, and the story, although fairly predictable, is done quite well. There's a great scene inside a bar in which Downey "convinces" a bunch of lowlifes not to start a fight, by quickly rattling off all of the legal consequences such action will bring. Man, can he talk!

EIGHT with a box of Kleenex, for old guys who miss their dads.

[jope]

I may a bit over-enthusiastic here, but I really, really liked the first episode of Better Call Saul. I was worried that my expectations would be to high. But I must say the old "Breaking Bad"-feeling is definitely there (well, at least for me). Please continue that way! Can't wait for episode 2 tonight.

[uptheos]

Mr Turner (2014)

A highly personal account of the twilight years of British land and seascape artist J. M. W. Turner, which finds him at the height of his fame and talent, but increasingly adrift from the world. An excellent movie, well worth watching, it is a wholehearted and dazzlingly performed portrait of an artist as an ageing man.

Review here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mr_turner