What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2025)

[jaywalker2]

Novocaine - great movie. Jack Quaid plays a guy incapable of feeling pain, which comes in handy when he sets out to rescue the woman he thinks he loves after she's been taken hostage in a bank heist. Action! Comedy! Romance! Amber Midthunder is gorgeous.

[Jingthing]

The Breakthrough. 

Limited Swedish murder investigation series.

[mikebell]

'The House of David' (him with his mate Goliath.)  I like a costume drama and this seems to have been well researched regarding the historical period.  Could do without the wailing songs in Hebrew!

[KannikaP]

  On 3/26/2025 at 10:55 AM, Seppius said:

The thing for me with Adolescent, the story was boring to me, a bit like watching Eastenders But

 

The acting from a kid that has never acted before, and to do it in one shot for each episode, was amazing.

 

There are some clips around about how they filmed it, even at the school scenes they used their own pupils

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Did the fact that it was all shot using just one non-stop camera make it any better, or worse. 

The ending obviously, left it wide open for S2...3.... etc.

[KannikaP]

  On 3/24/2025 at 8:17 AM, NativeBob said:

Waiting in anticipation next episode of White Lotus and more shots of Lisa "Mook" Manokaban. It was eye-opening experience to see how unhealthy skinny she is. Very endogenous. 

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Which series are you talking about, Hawaii, Italy or Thailand.

Shame we didn't get a tasteful glimpse of Sydney Sweeney's bits in S1!   555

[fredwiggy]

Split Decisions, Cabo Blanco, Expendables 2, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Masters of the Air, The Fly 2 (original), The Alamo (original), Signs., The Vikings, The Long Ships.

[NativeBob]

  On 3/31/2025 at 1:49 AM, KannikaP said:

Which series are you talking about, Hawaii, Italy or Thailand.

Shame we didn't get a tasteful glimpse of Sydney Sweeney's bits in S1!   555

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Today is Season 3 (Thailand based) Episode 7th is available to download and thanks God there're Fast Forward button and Skip.

[ozz1]

Just watched first episode of mobland  it looks really good if you enjoy  English mobster movies

[giddyup]

  On 3/31/2025 at 5:47 AM, ozz1 said:

Just watched first episode of mobland  it looks really good if you enjoy  English mobster movies

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Seems Guy Richie is stuck in this gangster genre.

[Mutt Daeng]

  On 3/31/2025 at 12:12 AM, Jingthing said:

The Breakthrough. 

Limited Swedish murder investigation series.

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I watched The Breakthrough recently and enjoyed it.

[Seppius]

  On 3/31/2025 at 1:48 AM, KannikaP said:

Did the fact that it was all shot using just one non-stop camera make it any better, or worse. 

The ending obviously, left it wide open for S2...3.... etc.

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Had it not been for the way it was filmed, I would have not watched the whole thing, but it fascinated me.

 

Without a spoiler ,It's pretty clear the result, end of story. Not a who done it, but a why done it

[KannikaP]

  On 3/31/2025 at 12:47 PM, Seppius said:

Had it not been for the way it was filmed, I would have not watched the whole thing, but it fascinated me.

 

Without a spoiler ,It's pretty clear the result, end of story. Not a who done it, but a why done it

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It is not end of story, wait for S2 & 3 which will tell us why.

[brewsterbudgen]

  On 4/1/2025 at 1:11 AM, KannikaP said:

It is not end of story, wait for S2 & 3 which will tell us why.

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I'd be very surprised if the 'story' continues.  Personally, I hope they leave it.  The story was not the point of the series.

[faraday]

Black Bag 2025  is on the bay.

[KannikaP]

  On 4/1/2025 at 4:15 AM, brewsterbudgen said:

I'd be very surprised if the 'story' continues.  Personally, I hope they leave it.  The story was not the point of the series.

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They did not explain why he killed the girl, or did I miss something?

Shall have a go at the final episode again.

[Andrew Dwyer]

Well, can clear Adolescence from my watch list now that the plot has been revealed !!

[Jingthing]

  On 4/1/2025 at 5:25 AM, Andrew Dwyer said:

Well, can clear Adolescence from my watch list now that the plot has been revealed !!

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That's silly. It's more or less obvious who did it from the first episode. That's no reason not to watch it.

[Andrew Dwyer]

  On 4/1/2025 at 5:31 AM, Jingthing said:

That's silly. It's more or less obvious who did it from the first episode. That's no reason not to watch it.

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But did we find out why ??

[gargamon]

  On 3/31/2025 at 5:50 AM, giddyup said:

Seems Guy Richie is stuck in this gangster genre.

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Apparently Mobland started as a prequel for Ray Donovan and then morphed into this. Seems a bit like Gangs of London.

[giddyup]

  On 4/1/2025 at 5:53 AM, gargamon said:

Apparently Mobland started as a prequel for Ray Donovan and then morphed into this. Seems a bit like Gangs of London.

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Bit late for a prequel, Ray Donovan started in 2013.

[brewsterbudgen]

  On 4/1/2025 at 5:50 AM, Andrew Dwyer said:

But did we find out why ??

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He had been wound up by online 'incel' videos (Andrew Tate is name-checked) and when rebuffed and mocked by the victim, he stabbed her.  

[Will27]

  On 4/1/2025 at 6:48 AM, giddyup said:

Bit late for a prequel, Ray Donovan started in 2013.

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A prequel means it would've been based on the characters before Ray Donavan started.

 

Just like The Many Saints of Newark was a prequel to the Sopranos.

 

You can make a prequel at any time.

[giddyup]

  On 4/1/2025 at 7:22 AM, Will27 said:

A prequel means it would've been based on the characters before Ray Donavan started.

 

Just like The Many Saints of Newark was a prequel to the Sopranos.

 

You can make a prequel at any time.

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I can't see any similarities between MobLand and RD, unless the Tom Hardy character, being a fixer same as RD, is the link.

[Will27]

  On 4/1/2025 at 8:00 AM, giddyup said:

I can't see any similarities between MobLand and RD, unless the Tom Hardy character, being a fixer same as RD, is the link.

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It's not a prequal though.

It was going to be and then it was completely changed.

[BritManToo]

  On 4/1/2025 at 4:25 AM, faraday said:

Black Bag 2025  is on the bay.

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Watched it, dreadfully dull.

[faraday]

  On 4/1/2025 at 9:01 AM, BritManToo said:

Watched it, dreadfully dull.

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..pretentious & poorly acted.

Stopped at 33 minutes.

[gargamon]

  On 4/1/2025 at 8:03 AM, Will27 said:

It's not a prequal though.

It was going to be and then it was completely changed.

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I suspect it was too hard to link the plots together so they wrote that part out.

[Mutt Daeng]

I've just finished season 1 of This City is Ours and it was very good IMHO. It was first brought to my attention by @faraday earlier in this topic. It's on 1337x, TheRARBG & TPB.

 

[jacnl2000]

In White Lotus S3 the monkeys overshadow the human drama, adding a layer of life and energy that was more engaging than the characters' interactions.

[jaywalker2]

  On 4/1/2025 at 6:57 PM, jacnl2000 said:

In White Lotus S3 the monkeys overshadow the human drama, adding a layer of life and energy that was more engaging than the characters' interactions.

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I don't know why all the hate for White Lotus. Everybody says it's boring -- what is boring exactly? You've got the sleazy Russians,the corrupt investment manager and his tone deaf wife and incestuous sons. You've got Walton Goggins finally able to confront the man who killed his father -- and turns away from violence even as the monk at the meditation center is warning that violence turns back on itself. You've got the gentle and kind Gaitok, whom Lisa, who's probably in league with the Russians, is trying to turn into a killer.  You've got Gary, who is planning nothing good I'm sure, and his slut girlfriend and finally you've got Belinda who wants to make the moral decision to have nothing to do with a murderer like Gary while everybody around her is telling her to shut up and take the money. Because that's all we care about in today's society -- money.

 

What's boring about any of that. The show isn't perfect by any means but it's much much better than junk like Black Doves, 1923 (is this show going to be the death of Taylor Sheriden?), the new version of Presumed Innocence, which was laughable, or Jack Reacher and it's lazy writing and lame acting. At least it has depth, a valid social critique, and a complex plot.