What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2025)

[Mutt Daeng]

23 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Whilst on the subject of movies and TV shows, a friend gave me a pair of Bluetooth headphones to try, mainly because my JBL sound bar is probably too good for my apartment and I worry about the noise being heard in other apartments.

 

So amongst all of the movie buffs here, has anyone got the inside running on a good pair of Bluetooth headphones which are not too expensive?

 

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I use Hoco W35 Air BT headset. Good enough for me. About 40 hours playing time. Takes about 2 hours to fully charge

https://s.lazada.co.th/s.x2ik2

[xylophone]

5 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I use Hoco W35 Air BT headset. Good enough for me.

https://s.lazada.co.th/s.x2ik2

Many thanks  Mutt, especially as I'd never heard of these and was contemplating a pair of Sony CH 720 Bluetooth headphones, so I will investigate these. 👍

[bubblegum]

I have Marshals designed for guitar. i just put a little Bluetooth dongle on them and it works great

[Rimmer]

They Shall Not Grow Old

It's on tPB

 

 

'Must-watch' war film with almost perfect rating shows real horrors

This tragic war films uses real-life never before seen footage of the first world war to re-tell the stories in colour for the first time

 

They Shall Not Grow Old is a documentary film by the renowned Peter Jackson, the man behind the highly acclaimed Lord of The Rings trilogy. Jackson decided to dedicate this piece of work to his late grandfather, who himself fought during the war, and it was this that motivated him to focus on creating an immersive experience of life at war.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2057073/must-watch-war-film

 

[SpaceKadet]

On 5/20/2025 at 12:59 PM, Henk Langeweg said:

Just finished watching Andor (S01,02), Bit slow and the main character doesn't know when he go into a Bathroom to do a number 1 or a number 2. Not even 1 smile in those 24 eps.

I managed to watch it because I am really fond of the SF future scerery. 

Definitely agree on Andor S02. Especially E01-E06. Slow, confusing, quick jumps between the scenes, and little or no connection to the rest of the story. Just wasted one episode on a stupid wedding with Bollywood choreographed dancing routine. Another on some forest wannabe rebels infighting, that never appear again. And, of course, they just stole some story from the Rebel Moon, cheap!!!! I blame it all on the director, Ariel Kleiman (he's a man actually). Must be a good friend of KK.

 

While S01 was pretty good, IMO, S02 final episode was a bit of a cliffhanger. And we know there won't be S03.

[faraday]

I have Sony Wh -1000xm5 headphones.

Cost around 10k.

They're very good, decent bass but not overpowering.

Noise cancelling is just right, too.

 

They've got a bit battered from falling asleep in them a bit too often, so I need to replace them soon.

 

Don't really want to fork out as  much next time.

 

7k is my budget.

 

 

Then, there's the B&W headphones....

 

 

Quite expensive, but awesome sound quality & very comfortable.

 

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

The Game on Channel 5 was very good.

[KannikaP]

On 5/17/2025 at 8:28 AM, Will27 said:

Season 4 next week.

 

 

They've made more dosh on these documentaries than produce from the farm!

[xylophone]

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

They Shall Not Grow Old

It's on tPB

 

 

'Must-watch' war film with almost perfect rating shows real horrors

This tragic war films uses real-life never before seen footage of the first world war to re-tell the stories in colour for the first time

 

They Shall Not Grow Old is a documentary film by the renowned Peter Jackson, the man behind the highly acclaimed Lord of The Rings trilogy. Jackson decided to dedicate this piece of work to his late grandfather, who himself fought during the war, and it was this that motivated him to focus on creating an immersive experience of life at war.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2057073/must-watch-war-film

 

I did see that a while back and thought it was brilliant, but now you've mentioned it again, I will download it and watch it, as with my concussion and memory loss I will  probably think I've never seen it before! 

[Jingthing]

There were some very strong clues that this film was going to be shambolic but I gave it a go anyway.

Trastevere 1971 Italian comedy (but not funny)

One time director -- never another.

No reviews at all found.

Was heavily cut in editing.

 

Trastevere (film) - Wikipedia

 www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trastevere_(film)

 

Oddly, it held my interest enough to watch it.

It's named on what was back then a newly trendy bohemian very old district in Rome.

Still there of course but no doubt gentrified by now.

Although not a documentary it felt a bit like time travel.

It showed various 1970's characters like drug addicts, hippies, alienated Americans, delusional locals, fake artists, deliciously filthy language, a mildly predatory middle aged queen,  a boatload of old religiously fanatic though sinning  Italian grandmas, a vain actor with a lost dog named Mao. I guess there was a little bit of a Fellini factor as many of the obvious non professional actors were kind of freakish and fun to gawk at. Story line and plot very weak. But overall a satisfying enough escapist experience. A bad movie but a better than that experience. So you really never know until you have a look. 

[sharot724]

1 hour ago, faraday said:

I have Sony Wh -1000xm5 headphones.

Cost around 10k.

They're very good, decent bass but not overpowering.

Noise cancelling is just right, too.

 

They've got a bit battered from falling asleep in them a bit too often, so I need to replace them soon.

 

Don't really want to fork out as  much next time.

 

7k is my budget.

 

 

Then, there's the B&W headphones....

 

 

Quite expensive, but awesome sound quality & very comfortable.

 

 

 

 

I have a draw filled with dead ones and a couple I don't bother to use as my Air Pod Pro 2 has no competition.  B8990 currently.

Air Pods 4 w/ noise cancllation B6490, w/o B4990 curently

[KannikaP]

BETTER MAN, the Robbie Williams story. Brilliant.