So Long, Marianne----   Leonard Cohen   8 episodes ITV a Bio

I really do like Cohen's work--but this wont be for everyone...& I am wondering why they needed 8 episodes to show it.

Ever-time I listen to it--My Kiwi Ex used to call it music to slash your wrist by. -- Typically, immersed in his poetry, when he decided to retire  he found that all his money had been stolen by his manager his Girlfriend & a few very close & caring friends---so we got to hear a few more years music form him before he died.

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Plum--Oz TV mini series 6 episodes---no rating yet

Blurp--Rugby League football hero, Peter "The Plum" Lum, is living the dream until he's diagnosed with a brain disorder. His ex-wife implores him to talk to his girlfriend and son, but he can't find the words, until a couple of dead poets appear.

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Sight Unseen---12 episodes all out---- 6.2 rating--it's just showing ITV-14  don't know or where

Blurp--Former homicide detective Tess Avery, diagnosed as blind, teams up with Sunny Patel, a remote seeing-eye guide and agoraphobe, to bring down killers who elude the police in this high-stakes detective thriller.

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Cleddau -- (The one that got away)    6 episodes--all out--- Welsh and English hard subbed  -IMDB rate it as 8

Blurlp---Following the murder of a nurse in the Welsh town of Pembroke Dock, old cases are being re-examined under the suspicion of a copycat killer.

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Mr Loverman---BBC 6 episodes all out  rated  6.5

Blurp--A moving and funny drama about an exuberant, closeted family man who wants to end his marriage and live with his best friend, with whom he has been having an affair for almost 60 years.

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13 hours ago, giddyup said:

opensubtitles.com About the only decent one left. If you have Nova installed on your smart TV you can add subs from there.

Kodi addon a4ksubtitles gets subs from opensubtitles, addic7ed, podnadpisi(sp?), Etc. And it  works remarkably well.

VLC has a subtitle add-on, works with opensubtitles. Works ok.

On 10/17/2024 at 11:24 AM, Mutt Daeng said:

Slow Horses complete season 4 is on 1337x, TheRARBG, kickass and the bay.

Sorry if this has already been posted. If it has, I missed it.

This series just keeps getting better and better. The only flaw in season 4 was not enough Lamb

On 10/15/2024 at 7:35 AM, giddyup said:

Looking forward to this one.

It's not very good IMHO. I think I'll go back and watch Aliens 2, directed by James Cameron. That's when he knew how to direct movies before all this Avatar junk.

21 minutes ago, jaywalker2 said:

It's not very good IMHO. I think I'll go back and watch Aliens 2, directed by James Cameron. That's when he knew how to direct movies before all this Avatar junk.

I thought it was awful and fast forwarded most of it.

Talking about subtitles I stumbled across this earlier today, it has subtitles of course but would seem that it can  translate as well, don't know anymore than that, but it came up with a complete set of English subs for an old 2009 series called Code 37 where all the others had failed.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, giddyup said:

I thought it was awful and fast forwarded most of it.

 

Agreed. Amateur millennials steal a ship that in reality they couldn't possibly fly, then they do Aliens-by-the-numbers. Bad. Spent maybe 20 min with it.  

LGBTQ content that I've been recently watching.

 

 

I posted this in the Gay Forum but for whatever reasons people weren't participating there. As I think there are some good (and bad) picks in that topic there, I'm linking to it here in case you're interested in such shows.

Going forward, I will post such shows here as I have done in the past anyway.

Obviously, all kinds of people watch all kinds of content.

A good show with LGBTQ content is a good show -- period.

 

 

 

Zombieland 2009

One of the best zombie comedies ever.

Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson.

 

 

Storyville: Dogs of War.

 

Thought this was excellent.

The untold true story of how Dave Tomkin, originally a safe-cracker from London, rose from small-time criminal to international mercenary and arms dealer, enabling death and destruction around the world.

Originally a safe-cracker from London, Dave Tomkins craved adventure. Dogs of War is the untold true story of how he rose from small-time criminal to international mercenary and arms dealer, enabling death and destruction around the world. Now, at the end of his notorious career and life, he reflects on his past, the people he worked with and the lives lost along the way.

Sweetpea - dark and bloody, but enjoyed the first two episodes.

 

Elsbeth - pretty basic but easy watch and the lead character "Elsbeth" is clever and quirky.

14 hours ago, Jingthing said:

LGBTQ content that I've been recently watching.

 

 

I posted this in the Gay Forum but for whatever reasons people weren't participating there. As I think there are some good (and bad) picks in that topic there, I'm linking to it here in case you're interested in such shows.

Going forward, I will post such shows here as I have done in the past anyway.

Obviously, all kinds of people watch all kinds of content.

A good show with LGBTQ content is a good show -- period.

 

 

Not everybody's (including mine) cup of tea but if the LGBTQ side of it doesn't take over the whole of the storyline then I for one am happy to watch along... 

 

It's when the LGBTQ side of things takes over the story that I tend switch off... Sorry, but I have absolutely no interest in other's sexuality, much prefer a decent whodunit 🙂

  

 

18 minutes ago, Mike Teavee said:

 

Not everybody's (including mine) cup of tea but if the LGBTQ side of it doesn't take over the whole of the storyline then I for one am happy to watch along... 

 

It's when the LGBTQ side of things take over the story that I tend switch off... Sorry, but I have absolutely no interest in other's sexuality, much prefer a decent whodunit 🙂

  

 

I find your comment cringe but I will say some LGBTQ content is prety much all about that such as the Australian series Single Out and other shows such as the highly recommended comedy series English Teacher have much wider appeal.

 

That said I personally enjoy watching content not directed at me to learn stuff.

 

 

 

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Many thanks to the poster who mentioned/recommended the series "Black Bird" as I'm three quarters of the way through the series and found it to be enjoyable – – not brilliant but worth a watch.

 

Apparently based on a true story.

The Substance

 

A morality tale bitterly satirizing Hollywood's, and by extension, society's, obsession with youthful appearances, notably those of women (feminist slant, check); and warning, via body horror, against falling victim to it.

 

Quite simplistic, doesn't bother with suspension of disbelief, just rolls with an absurd premise from the beginning and gets down to it. Demi Moore and her hot young counterpart Margaret Qualley, and their novel situation, may hold your attention for about an hour and half. By that time, there's nowhere to go but to more of the same, and you know how it's going to end: with ultimate body horror and degradation. So, unless you're really into that and appreciate remarkable special effects, that'll do. Time to switch off and try to forget about it, as I did.

 

Could have been deeper with a great writer behind it, I suppose. The Fly had far more substance. Death Becomes Her, with Bruce Willis (probably doesn't remember it now), did the same theme in a comic fashion and is worth watching more than once. Limitless and The Nutty Professor don't insult you from the start.

 

 

New Aussie series has just dropped.

When the massive Lawson cattle station lacks an heir, Australia's rival factions see a chance to seize control.

The land grabs threaten to destroy the declining dynasty.

 

 

20 hours ago, xylophone said:

Many thanks to the poster who mentioned/recommended the series "Black Bird

 

The guy that plays the child killer should get an Emme or whatever they get for TV acting---he really did carry that series --yes well worth the watch.

After tragically losing his wife to suicide, child psychiatrist Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.

 

 

On 10/24/2024 at 6:53 PM, Will27 said:

New Aussie series has just dropped.

When the massive Lawson cattle station lacks an heir, Australia's rival factions see a chance to seize control.

The land grabs threaten to destroy the declining dynasty.

 

 

Thanks @Will27. I'll have a look at that/

One Life.

This movie took a lot of time to warm up so I was finding it a bit dull but then it got moving in a very big emotionally moving way, so I can recommend. Based on the true story of a humble "ordinary" man who did heroic Schindler level acts during WW2. Starring Anthony Hopkins in a brilliant performance.

 

 

I really enjoyed Don't Move (2024), not a great movie but a good entertaining 'edge of your seat thriller'. Now on Netflix.

Season 2 of Lioness has just started.

 

 

14 hours ago, Will27 said:

Season 2 of Lioness has just started.

 

 

Thanks for the heads up @Will27

 

Rivals

 

Stopped watching this Jilly Cooper-based sex romp after Episode 2.  (Our Jilly is also a  producer of the series.)  It's set in the 1980's, when sex was just being discovered  (at least in Jilly's world).

 

Lots of knickers being torn off while shagging in an airline toilet (Concorde natch).  Even some desperate but amusing trouser-groping for our gay brethren (which for once does not seem gratuitous, added on for the sake of that demographic.  That's because sex is everywhere.) 

 

Class system satirised during multiple orgasmic weekends in the Big Country House...

Even so, the whole thing is acted out with a nod and a wink, as if the actors know it's a lot of cobblers, but we're going to have some fun anyway.  Most human ailments can be cured, Jilly implies, by a jolly good rogering.

 

 

The Old Man season 2 complete is now on TGx.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5645432/

Seal Team season 7 complete now on TGx, 1337x & bitsearch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6473344/