3 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I watched Oppenheimer last night and enjoyed it. I got it from TGx.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15398776/

I also watched it last night and enjoyed it, although at times I found it a little convoluted? Maybe it's just me and my age, however what I will say is that I thought that Robert Downey Jr was excellent and I didn't recognise him until at least halfway through the movie when it suddenly dawned on me who it was!

 

I did watch the documentary on it a while back, however it didn't spoil the movie for me one bit.

2 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Thanks for the recommendation @Rimmer. Can only see individual episodes on TPB, but Criminal Code Season 1 complete appears to be on Torlock. 

On Netflix also...

Suburræterna

 

While chaos rules over Rome, established alliances are at risk as tensions rise with emerging criminal clans. The world of "Suburra" takes a new turn.

 

 

4 hours ago, xylophone said:

I also watched it last night and enjoyed it, although at times I found it a little convoluted? Maybe it's just me and my age, however what I will say is that I thought that Robert Downey Jr was excellent and I didn't recognise him until at least halfway through the movie when it suddenly dawned on me who it was!

 

I did watch the documentary on it a while back, however it didn't spoil the movie for me one bit.

Yes, I agree it was a little convoluted at times. It took me a while to recognise RDJ and it was a good performance by him. I also watched the documentary and enjoyed that as well. 

21 minutes ago, Will27 said:

Suburræterna

 

While chaos rules over Rome, established alliances are at risk as tensions rise with emerging criminal clans. The world of "Suburra" takes a new turn.

 

 

Thanks @Will27. Looks good. Downloading complete season 1 now from 1337x. Also on TGx & Kickass.

Those of you who enjoyed 'Band of Brothers' and 'The Pacific' will probably like this new one from the same stable 'Masters of the Air' but you'll have to wait until January. 

 

 

 

Hey Fellas, been a while!

 

 

 

Just downloaded A Horrible Way To Die (Yify), it's from 2010 and gets good reviews, but yet to watch it.

Fargo is back! 
 

I downloaded and started watching Criminal Code, all was looking promising, then I got to the end of what I thought was the first episode and it ended at some sentimental scene, I was wondering where could the show go from here? Then I realized I had just watched the final episode. Doh.

 

Another show getting good reviews is Stan’s Scrublands

 

Pacto De Sangre,a Mexican crime / drama / mystery may be worth a watch, not too sure yet.

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

Fargo is back! 
 

I downloaded and started watching Criminal Code, all was looking promising, then I got to the end of what I thought was the first episode and it ended at some sentimental scene, I was wondering where could the show go from here? Then I realized I had just watched the final episode. Doh.

 

Another show getting good reviews is Stan’s Scrublands

 

Pacto De Sangre,a Mexican crime / drama / mystery may be worth a watch, not too sure yet.

I enjoyed Scrublands.

Perhaps to demonstrate the 'usefulness' of the topic here, perhaps we should start a thread:

What did you have to resort to fill the gap during the week hiatus?

 

I binged watched 47 episodes of 

 

Island of Bryan (TV Series 2019– ) - IMDb

 

It was quite enjoyable, though maybe not everyone's cup of tea.

A bit of a guilty pleasure that I'm definitely guilty of:

 

https://youtu.be/2vO4AKM_KGg

I sought out a few older movies to watch and one which I have seen before and wanted to watch again was, "Dark City" which starred Kiefer Sutherland, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt and Jennifer Connelly, and I've always thought this was a bit of an underrated masterpiece, because whoever thought of the premise for this was nothing short of a genius IMO.

I did notice Richard O'Brien in it, and he played his part very well, almost on a par with his part in the Rocky horror picture show!

 

I also watched one on BBC iPlayer, called, "The Sense of an Ending" with the excellent Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling, and although slow-moving, it was a good watch, with an ending that I didn't foresee.

Saw "Napoleon" today, and while I enjoyed it, it was disappointing. The battle scenes were pretty good, but I thought Joaquin Phoenix was pretty weak and the some of the dialog and a number of scenes were pretty silly. 

 

 

The second season of The Lazarus Project has dropped. Since I had the first season (unwatched) on my NAS, I decided to watch a bit of it before downloading season 2. Wow, intelligent science fiction for a change, without all the CGI crap. Rated 6.5 on IMDb, but don't believe that, most there want CGI and marvel nonsense.

 

Highly recommended. Oh, and the main antagonist is the guy from Strike, Tom Burke. 

Really enjoyed this one----- IMDB gives it ...8.4/10   The write ups give it a 10/10 It was  BAFTA Award winner 2012

4 part Ch4  Drama series---- not a Doco--- its a 2011 release  I got it from Chaos---but I see Pirates is still running it after 13 years. Also you can get some episodes through  YouTube

 

 

The Promise

 

The Blerb--'The Promise' shows how Israel was born in violence & how the violence is maintained in the present day. Around this Kosminsky has drawn a gripping storyline of the granddaughter of a soldier in the British Protectorate searching out the mystery of her grandfathers story. Thus Erin, the granddaughter travels modern Israel while her grandfathers story shows late '40s Palestine & the birth of Israel.

I do not give 10/10 lightly but 'The Promise' has earnt it as absolute top quality viewing

 

 

 

Boat Story - one episode in & I'm hooked.

5 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Boat Story - one episode in & I'm hooked.

I found 6 episodes was way too long, or maybe it's my attention span.

22 hours ago, mikebell said:

Boat Story - one episode in & I'm hooked.

Thanks @mikebell. Downloading season 1 from 1337x.

On 11/23/2023 at 1:04 PM, recom273 said:

Fargo is back! 
 

I downloaded and started watching Criminal Code, all was looking promising, then I got to the end of what I thought was the first episode and it ended at some sentimental scene, I was wondering where could the show go from here? Then I realized I had just watched the final episode. Doh.

 

Another show getting good reviews is Stan’s Scrublands

 

Pacto De Sangre,a Mexican crime / drama / mystery may be worth a watch, not too sure yet.

Thanks @recom273 downloading Scrublands from TGx.

I can't seem to locate Pacto de Sangre on the usual sites. Where did you get it?

On 11/23/2023 at 8:25 PM, gargamon said:

The second season of The Lazarus Project has dropped. Since I had the first season (unwatched) on my NAS, I decided to watch a bit of it before downloading season 2. Wow, intelligent science fiction for a change, without all the CGI crap. Rated 6.5 on IMDb, but don't believe that, most there want CGI and marvel nonsense.

 

Highly recommended. Oh, and the main antagonist is the guy from Strike, Tom Burke. 

Thanks @gargamon downloading seasons 1 & 2 from TGx.

Traces is quite good a mixture of police work and forensics, I was only able to find series two.

Such Brave Girls This is truly hilarious, laugh out loud Brit sitcom. Only six 30 minute episodes, hope there will be more in the future.

The Visit 2015. Watched it again and didn't realise it was a M Night Shylaman movie, same director who did The Sixth Sense. Quirky with the usual twist ending.

2 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Traces is quite good a mixture of police work and forensics, I was only able to find series two.

Traces season 1 complete is on TPB. I watched it a while ago and thought it was good. Thanks for the heads up that season 2 is available. Downloading now from TPB. 

44 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

3 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Traces is quite good a mixture of police work and forensics, I was only able to find series two.

Traces season 1 complete is on TPB. I watched it a while ago and thought it was good. Thanks for the heads up that season 2 is available. Downloading now from TPB. 

Update: Season 1 is slow to download from TPB, so I selected S1-S2 combined from Kickass and after the download started, I de-selected season 2. The download was fast. I should have mentioned that they are all 720p (Good enough for me)

22 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Update: Season 1 is slow to download from TPB, so I selected S1-S2 combined from Kickass and after the download started, I de-selected season 2. The download was fast. I should have mentioned that they are all 720p (Good enough for me)

 

Thanks for that, I must have struck lucky just now,  as soon as I read your post I plugged into TPB and got in down in just four minutes

If you enjoyed Squid Games (I did), then Squid Game:The Challenge is even better.

 

I’m watching it on Netflix (well worth the 169b pm for subtitles when the GF wants to watch her Thai Soaps) but am sure it’s available everywhere.

 

The Devils Game is a similar concept, again I really enjoyed it but only because I love logic puzzles.

 

 

PS for anybody who enjoys (Sudoku Related) Logic puzzles or Cryptic Crosswords, “Cracking The Cryptic” channel on YouTube is awesome - Need to try to keep the grey matter sharp in retirement 👍🏻

 

 

@Will27 

 

Channel 4 / Walter presents - Ice Cold Murders: Rocco Schiavone S05

 

Broadcast in Italy in April now with subtitles, just 4 episodes in the series. I love the backdrop to this show, awesome. 

13 hours ago, recom273 said:

@Will27 

 

Channel 4 / Walter presents - Ice Cold Murders: Rocco Schiavone S05

 

Broadcast in Italy in April now with subtitles, just 4 episodes in the series. I love the backdrop to this show, awesome. 

Thanks for this @recom273 I've been waiting for S05 to appear. BTW it's 8 episodes in S05 not 4.