On 3/28/2022 at 1:16 AM, giddyup said:

I got about 20 minutes into it before giving it away. Not sure what the dance and music sequences had to do with a murder mystery, just looked like filler to me.

It was a way to bring diversity into the group of main characters, how else can could he do so with a film set in Africa, er, nevermind.  I thought the special effects were pretty obvious.  Cannot help thinking Branagh's ex (Emma Thompson) would have been better in Annette Bening's role, but maybe he did too.

 

 

On 4/4/2022 at 2:10 AM, mtls2005 said:

Feel like I should be watching a documentary on the Amazin' Mets and the Moon landing?

Summer of 1969?

A Walk on the Moon is about yet another historic marker of that summer that you didn't mention.

 

If I was putting together a "the way we was" double bill I'd put it with

Running on Empty which takes place about 17 years after.  Personally it's a "that could have been me" movie.

 

 

10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Disney has something to do with the movie which explains the excessive wokeness.

Despite the recent controversy, Disney is THE most conservative studio in the USA (not including Christian production companies).

1 hour ago, bendejo said:

It was a way to bring diversity into the group of main characters, how else can could he do so with a film set in Africa, er, nevermind.  I thought the special effects were pretty obvious.  Cannot help thinking Branagh's ex (Emma Thompson) would have been better in Annette Bening's role, but maybe he did too.

 

 

and why is it necessary to bring "diversity" into the group of main characters? It's a story about a group of 1930s English people on holiday on a boat on the Nile, not a group of Americans of a modern era.

 

In his Orient Express movie Branagh didn't feel obliged to invent roles for minority ethnicity actors.

53 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Despite the recent controversy, Disney is THE most conservative studio in the USA (not including Christian production companies).

Being conservative does not mean that one isn't woke.

On 3/28/2022 at 9:16 PM, giddyup said:

I got about 20 minutes into it before giving it away. Not sure what the dance and music sequences had to do with a murder mystery, just looked like filler to me.

IMO it was to explain why there were a load of characters that were not in the book in the movie, but for sure the movie was too long, and could have been half an hour shorter if they'd cut out the irrelevant bits.

Just watched a BBC documentary, 'House of Maxwell'

 

I really didn't know anything of this family other than Ghislaine Maxwell, where the documentary ends up.

 

But fascinating stuff

 

It's time to watch a Bruce Willis movie. Nothing like Pulp Fiction, but I've seen it too many times. Ended up watching Looper, being SF, and it was quite OK. Emily Blunt's always nice to look at. She didn't get naked or anything, so don't get too excited here.

Just watched a very good movie from 1984 Threads,ide seen it before its about nuvlear war with Russia and centres around Sheffield, i dont meant to be going on ,but in all the crowd scenes in the film and there are dozens i did not see one face that was not white,Wonder how it would have changed if they made the film today? ???? 

Its not a bad movie by the way

20 hours ago, bendejo said:

Summer of 1969?

A Walk on the Moon is about yet another historic marker of that summer that you didn't mention.

Well I only mentioned two films I saw, one after the other, about the same time period. Both involved "struggles". So yeah, there are shed-loads of films I didn't mention.

 

Richard Linklater's new film, "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood" on Netflix looks apropos?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzuz5s_Qk-A

 

 

 

20 hours ago, bendejo said:

It was a way to bring diversity into the group of main characters

Armie Hammer problem sidestepped by delay, delay, delay, wait for kerfuffle to die down?

 

 

 

 

 

On 4/3/2022 at 8:06 PM, Mutt Daeng said:

I've just watched the first 3 episodes of Banshee season 1. It's pretty good so far. Well worth a look IMHO. I've downloaded all 4 seasons which I'm going to watch back to back. It was brought to my attention recently by someone mentioning it in this topic. Thanks to whoever that was.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017109/

Sneaky Pete is another “ assuming someone’s identity “ series which I thought was very good.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5011816/

12 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Well I only mentioned two films I saw

Elvis made a comeback that year, the birth of the white-jumpsuit Elvis. 

The two I mentioned have to do with the cultural changes of those particular times.  The incident that sparked the situation in Running on Empty was based on something I knew the people involved with, but the real-life characters were caught (or did the turn themselves in?)  soon afterward.  As a NYC native the real miracle of that year, which the moon landing pales in contrast to, is the Mets winning the pennant/series.  And I'm not even a sports fan: I blame the Brooklyn Bums for leaving town for my lack of interest.

 

Something else happened that year that generated a sheetstorm in the media, but I don't recall ever hearing it mentioned again after the storm passed: "Paul is Dead."  It's impossible to not laugh at that.

 

 

This one looks interesting.

RAR

 

 

Tokyo Vice

 

New HBO show just started.
First 3 episodes are out there.

Summary:  A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.
 

 

Last series  Peaky Blinders absolutely  dreadful, false, silly, daft mystical  sequences, terrible  intrusive,  music and rotten script. Very disappointing.

'Holding' an easy  going drama set in Ireland about a laid back cop out of his depth. It's unclear if this  is a drama or comedy. Whatever potential  it has is disturbed by achronistic 'woke casting' with a Jamaican senior investigatigator playing an Irish  policeman. Silly box ticking

1 hour ago, Will27 said:

This one looks interesting.

RAR

 

 

Cheers I'll give it a look

On 4/5/2022 at 8:10 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

Being conservative does not mean that one isn't woke.

Indeed. The two  can be synomous in some respects especially as woke issues get adopted by big business  and corporate  interests. Identify  politics is a godsend to big business and corporations as it distracts from class issues and corporate  created injustice.

Tokyo Vice - a new  series with  great location  shots in a story  where police corruption is investigated by a an American  cub reporter Japan. Based on a book  of the same name written by Jake Adelstein.

Eldorado - Episode 1 - YouTube                      Truly one of the finest shows the BBC screened,taken off because of popularity,sorry about Scottish weather broadcast   Enjoy

On 4/5/2022 at 6:31 PM, bendejo said:

It was a way to bring diversity into the group of main characters, how else can could he do so with a film set in Africa, er, nevermind.  I thought the special effects were pretty obvious.  Cannot help thinking Branagh's ex (Emma Thompson) would have been better in Annette Bening's role, but maybe he did too.

 

 

Diversity? Why bring American  political  ideas into everything? Its just a form of cultural  imperialism. American  woke culture  is colonising our arts, music, culture,  media and politics...

There are 2 new drama series out on UK TV  (both seem lightweight) and one added series .

 

New .

Harry Wild

9 episodes, A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.

Deadline

4 episodes with a Hugh 4.6 IMDB rating .  James Alden is a washed-up investigative journalist making trashy documentaries when he lands the interview of the decade with Natalie Varga, who is suspected of murdering her rich Hungarian husband. She tells him that if he finds the killer, she'll give him the exclusive everyone wants.

The Split-Season-3

6 episodes, this has Nicola Walker as lead, (Unforgotten etc) 7.7 IMDB 

The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.

 

A British Horror Story is a documentary  about Jimmy Savile, a high profile British show  business personality who through his charitable activities established himself in the higher  echelons of British  society using his position to rape and abuse hundreds children and adults aged 5 to 75. A creepy, weirdo eccentric, he fooled a nation with the help of the British  police, UK libel law and people's self delusion. His fans   included Prince Charles  and Margaret Thatcher.  Quite an interesting documentary reminding us of the sickness behind the glitz, glamour and sanctimony of show biz people including modern Hollywood where due to modern media abusers are exposed sooner.

2 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

There are 2 new drama series out on UK TV  (both seem lightweight) and one added series .

 

New .

Harry Wild

9 episodes, A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.

Deadline

4 episodes with a Hugh 4.6 IMDB rating .  James Alden is a washed-up investigative journalist making trashy documentaries when he lands the interview of the decade with Natalie Varga, who is suspected of murdering her rich Hungarian husband. She tells him that if he finds the killer, she'll give him the exclusive everyone wants.

The Split-Season-3

6 episodes, this has Nicola Walker as lead, (Unforgotten etc) 7.7 IMDB 

The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.

 

Yeah The Split was very lightweight- girly fluff.

24 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

A British Horror Story is a documentary  about Jimmy Savile, a high profile British show  business personality who through his charitable activities established himself in the higher  echelons of British  society using his position to rape and abuse hundreds children and adults aged 5 to 75. A creepy, weirdo eccentric, he fooled a nation with the help of the British  police, UK libel law and people's self delusion. His fans   included Prince Charles  and Margaret Thatcher.  Quite an interesting documentary reminding us of the sickness behind the glitz, glamour and sanctimony of show biz people including modern Hollywood where due to modern media abusers are exposed sooner.

Savile was a DJ and TV personality. No way anyone could have gotten that close to royalty and the PM without the security services knowing what his interests were. Also, I was told in 1975 by somebody from Leeds that Savile was known to take young girls on a boat he had on the canal there, so I don't go for the nobody knew line. Riveting viewing, a true horror story.

 The Straits is an Australian gangster series set in the Cairns, the Torres Straits and and N Queensland featuring a family producing and distributing party drugs whilst dealing with family infighting, Biker gangs and the notorious PNG Raskol gangs. A gangster series  with a difference- Wythenshawe  it ain't.

2 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

Savile was a DJ and TV personality. No way anyone could have gotten that close to royalty and the PM without the security services knowing what his interests were. Also, I was told in 1975 by somebody from Leeds that Savile was known to take young girls on a boat he had on the canal there, so I don't go for the nobody knew line. Riveting viewing, a true horror story.

As explained in the documentary the British  libel  system  protected him and the police helped  him too.

25 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

 The Straits is an Australian gangster series set in the Cairns, the Torres Straits and and N Queensland featuring a family producing and distributing party drugs whilst dealing with family infighting, Biker gangs and the notorious PNG Raskol gangs. A gangster series  with a difference- Wythenshawe  it ain't.

@The Hammer2021You forgot to mention if it was any good or not.

59 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

@The Hammer2021You forgot to mention if it was any good or not.

I would say it's worth  a watch- has potential

22 hours ago, Will27 said:

This one looks interesting.

RAR

 

 

It's OK. Inconsequential. Cheap. A few surprises.