10 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

Your joking,they have not cast a woman of colour as Anne Boleyn have they? 

YES - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13406036/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Stopped watching broadcast TV many years ago - looks like I was well ahead of the curve !!! 555

Seen another show about the middle ages - had a black actor as a Duke or Earl too !!! What Hogwash.

What is next - Neanderthals being white - 555

11 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

New series in 3 parts ,Anne Boleyn ,dont know what its like but one supprise ,i never realized that Henry 8 had a black wife ,well you learn something new every day

He had a black trumpet player, there were no black Queens, tudor courtiers or Roman Emperors, but Tv does not let historical facts get in the way of feelings these days. Unwatchable nonsense, oh they also cast her as a part time lesbian as well!

Did anyone mention already that Gomorrah season 5 with English subs is around?

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Mayor of Kingstown..Top

13 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

He had a black trumpet player, there were no black Queens, tudor courtiers or Roman Emperors, but Tv does not let historical facts get in the way of feelings these days. Unwatchable nonsense, oh they also cast her as a part time lesbian as well!

Ideological aspirational reality

On 12/12/2021 at 11:51 PM, 3NUMBAS said:

good comedies seem to finish with shalow hal and dumb and dumber there are no good comedies any more

I dont like shallow hals either

Manayek

 

This one now appearing on TPB with hard coded subs.

It's excellent.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12819234/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The French Dispatch

Watched last night - many well known stars in it.

Quirky - reminded me of the Coen Bro's

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8847712/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

 

'Fauda' fourth season due to show in mid 2022. About time.

Watching Love/Hate....... dont know how I missed that first time around, but if you liked-"Kin"- or "Hidden Assets" or any of the Irish drug related dramas, it is right up there with them IMO. -------very good---5 seasons   TPB still has it all and probably other places as well.

 

Sometimes the police are the least of your problems--- They dont Knee cap you.

 

 

 

Ken and Barbie Killers, The Lost Murder Tapes.  The Canadian police really stuffed up big time on this one. True crime doco available most places.

1 hour ago, sanuk711 said:

Watching Love/Hate....... dont know how I missed that first time around, but if you liked-"Kin"- or "Hidden Assets" or any of the Irish drug related dramas, it is right up there with them IMO. -------very good---5 seasons   TPB still has it all and probably other places as well.

 

Sometimes the police are the least of your problems--- They dont Knee cap you.

 

 

 

Thanks @sanuk711. I'll be watching Love/Hate as soon as I finish Mocro Mafia Season 2.

On 12/12/2021 at 4:22 PM, BritManToo said:

I'm working my way through the "Fringe" tv series again.

All 5 seasons available.

One of my top 10 american Sci-FI series, also last performance by Leonard Nimoy I believe.  Created by J.J. Abrams.  John Noble is great in this series

 

Over the past few evenings I've watched a few movies/series, and series 2 of "Vienna Blood" had a good start, and although it was slow, the sets were great, and the plot was obviously thought of by a near genius!

 

Also downloaded and watched "Just Cause" again, and I picked up something in it which I hadn't realised before and which was quite key in the whole plot, so I'm pleased that I watched it again.

 

And on the subject of "rewatches", I watched, "The Big Short" again and still found it hugely entertaining, and another one due for a "rewatch" is, "Live By Night", which IMO is a hugely underrated movie starring Ben Affleck.

I was never a fan of Chaplin but appreciated his film work and stunt work.

Never knew he was British. 

 

A few weeks ago there was some discussion of the greatest movie ever made. I don’t have one to offer, but one that I’ve heard that said of more than a few times over the years is Johnny Guitar. I tried watching it a few times over the ages (the film is almost as old as me) and never made it through; I don’t like westerns, and when I was a kid I didn’t like seeing Joan Crawford because I thought she looked like my mum in a bad mood.

Well, this time I got it, albeit in my own way. It’s a film noir, but instead dark alleys and cheap furnished rooms it’s the Old West on the verge of change (the railroad is being built). Are the good folk of the town the bad guys? Are all of the bad guys bad? Also some timely fear mongering: change is coming, it’ll destroy us. I wonder what feminist types would have to say about the confrontation of the two female leads. Oh, and it’s in color!

I don’t know about it being the greatest, but it does bear being looked at as just another horse opera. In some ways it reminds me of another old one I saw recently, The Ox-Bow Incident (with young Henry Fonda as a rowdy cowhand and, if you don’t blink, young Anthony Quinn).

Found both to be entertaining.

 

 

 

Submarine: Life Under the Waves.

RAR

 

Thought this 2 part series was quite interesting.

 

 

One good thing - back in the day - tie up in a foreign port, Navy pays for your hotel room !!!

Only back aboard for duty.

Maybe worth a look

 

 

I was enthralled with The French Dispatch. Brilliant.

 

This is quirky, even by Wes Anderson standards, so best avoided unless you enjoy films from this director.

 

An extended take on long stories from a New Yorker-like magazine, run by an ex-pat in a fictionalized Paris (Ennui sur Blase).

 

The cast is simply staggering.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcPk2p0Zaw4

 

 

 

 

On 12/15/2021 at 11:33 AM, sanuk711 said:

Watching Love/Hate....... dont know how I missed that first time around, but if you liked-"Kin"- or "Hidden Assets" or any of the Irish drug related dramas, it is right up there with them IMO. -------very good---5 seasons   TPB still has it all and probably other places as well.

 

Sometimes the police are the least of your problems--- They dont Knee cap you.

 

 

 

 

On 12/15/2021 at 12:41 PM, Mutt Daeng said:

Thanks @sanuk711. I'll be watching Love/Hate as soon as I finish Mocro Mafia Season 2.

I'm up to episode 3 of season 1 of Love/Hate and it's very good so far IMHO. Well worth a look.

4 hours ago, recom273 said:

Maybe worth a look

 

 

Thanks @recom273 added to my download list.

I don't recall if this was mentioned already, but I'm loving Swedish BEARTOWN. I'm not even a hockey fan either.

 

 

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I don't recall if this was mentioned already, but I'm loving Swedish BEARTOWN. I'm not even a hockey fan either.

 

 

Yep

 

I enjoyed this one as well.

Julian Assange: Revolution Now

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14677150/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

The Grand Tour 4 04 

On 12/15/2021 at 4:15 PM, Skallywag said:

One of my top 10 american Sci-FI series, also last performance by Leonard Nimoy I believe.  Created by J.J. Abrams.  John Noble is great in this series

 

Watched the first episode of this, even with the plane full of death people landing by itself at the airport. The second episode was just too much of the same.

Desperate for a sci fi fix I tried Devs , second episode still holding my interest.

 

Devs (TV Mini Series 2020) - IMDb

The Witcher season 2 just hit the usual channels... All 8 episodes at once. Looks to me like binging time again.

 

2 hours ago, LosLobo said:

Watched the first episode of this, even with the plane full of death people landing by itself at the airport. The second episode was just too much of the same.

Desperate for a sci fi fix I tried Devs , second episode still holding my interest.

 

Devs (TV Mini Series 2020) - IMDb

mmm .. yeah .. I started it, got as far as the second episode, been meaning to finish the series off.

 

@Will27 Didi you see the 2nd & 3rd series of Rocco Schiavone are kicking about.

I liked Witcher so I'm definitely up for that new season. For Life is a good one about a former prisoner turned lawyer; it's a true story. The actor reminds me a lot of Denzel Washington.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVexZ56TcS0

 

Hawkeye is out there. It keeps my attention although I'm not usually into all the Marvel madness that seems to go on and on.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYb3B1ETlk

 

For movies Cruella and Red Notice were pretty good.