What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2025)

[giddyup]

Ocean with David Attenborough. Couldn't watch all of this, too depressing. Starts out showing so much beauty under the seas, only then to be confronted by more of mans greed and destruction of the planet.

[xylophone]

I decided to watch old favourite of mine last night, namely, "The Jackal", the one starring Bruce Willis, Sidney Poitier, Richard Gere and JK Simmons, amongst others, and although it seemed to have had some "poor reviews" by some folk, I still think it's a very good movie and I've enjoyed watching it a few times!

[LosLobo]

I watched The Amateur (2025) - IMDb  last night and it was a good though not a great movie.

I still found it enjoyable and worthwhile.

[Jingthing]

Not new but you probably missed it so time to enjoy it now. Victorian comedic fun. I do realize that the terminally literal humorless anti-"woke" obsessives won't like that there's a black lady in this (get over yourselves!). 

 

 

[BritManToo]

11 hours ago, giddyup said:

Pretty average IMO, a very confusing, less than gripping plot.

It was actually awful.

[oxo1947]

Once again---Just Their opinion---  Some quite dated

 

The 14 best true crime documentaries to watch now, chosen by crime experts

American Murder: Laci Peterson ---Streaming on Netflix 

Dateline, The Terrible Night on King Road --Streaming on Peacock

A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read --Streaming on MAX

Making Manson --Streaming Peacock 

Girl in the Picture --Streaming on Netflix

Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez --Streaming on Netflix

Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie --Streaming on Max and Hulu

The Mortician --Streaming on Max 

A Deadly American Marriage --Streaming on Netflix

Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story --Streaming on Netflix

Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders --Streaming on Netflix

Jailbreak: Love on the Run ---Streaming on Netflix

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel ---Streaming on Netflix

The Keepers --Streaming on Netflix

 

[xylophone]

I eventually managed to find a very good three-part series called, "A Very English Scandal" (not to be confused with a similar one entitled, "A Very British Scandal") and it starred Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe and Ben Wishaw as Norman Scott and was about the Jeremy Thorpe homosexual scandal and the lies that went with it.

 

I enjoyed watching it again and picked up a few things I'd missed the first time round, but what I couldn't get past was the superb acting of Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, in fact it was well acted throughout.

It would appear that there were quite a few "shirt lifters" throughout the governing parties, not to mention the judiciary!

[Mutt Daeng]

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

I eventually managed to find a very good three-part series called, "A Very English Scandal" (not to be confused with a similar one entitled, "A Very British Scandal") and it starred Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe and Ben Wishaw as Norman Scott and was about the Jeremy Thorpe homosexual scandal and the lies that went with it.

 

I enjoyed watching it again and picked up a few things I'd missed the first time round, but what I couldn't get past was the superb acting of Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, in fact it was well acted throughout.

It would appear that there were quite a few "shirt lifters" throughout the governing parties, not to mention the judiciary!

Seen and enjoyed both of the above. IMHO Ben Wishaw is a very good actor.

[connda]

On 6/13/2025 at 9:12 AM, BritManToo said:

The Shrouds, David Cronenbergs latest spooky horror now out.

Not sure it'll be any good.

Long Live The New Flesh!  

[Rimmer]

Watching Bodyguard again, quite good even second time around.

[xylophone]

I thought I'd take a look at a movie I hadn't seen for years, namely David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" especially as I couldn't remember anything about it!

 

It starred Jeremy Irons in the role of the twins (an excellent performance by him) and also Genevieve Bujold as the main female in the strange/weird/disconcerting movie, as is generally the norm with anything by David Cronenberg!

[connda]

2 hours ago, xylophone said:

I thought I'd take a look at a movie I hadn't seen for years, namely David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" especially as I couldn't remember anything about it!

 

It starred Jeremy Irons in the role of the twins (an excellent performance by him) and also Genevieve Bujold as the main female in the strange/weird/disconcerting movie, as is generally the norm with anything by David Cronenberg!

Watched Cronenberg's The Shrouds and was like, "Ok?" by the end.  Sorta the same feeling I had at the end of Videodrome.

[Thailand]

 Rerun of Foyle's War , still very enjoyable, Honeysuckle Weeks "Sam" steals the show.

[Mutt Daeng]

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

 Rerun of Foyle's War , still very enjoyable, Honeysuckle Weeks "Sam" steals the show.

Foyle's War was a very good series IMHO,

[Will27]

Daniel and Alison meet in 1989 Sheffield and fall in love as teenagers before life takes them in different directions.

They reconnect years later through shared musical memories, wondering if they're meant to be together.

 

 

[Moonlover]

2 years ago there was a great 6 part docu/drama on the BBC about the Brinks-Mat robbery, Britain's biggest ever gold heist back in 1983. I thought that it was just a single series, but no, it's back for a second series and now the police are trying to track the rest of gold and the money that is being made off it.

 

It is brilliant! If you haven't viewed the 1st series, it would be well worth watching first so that you get the full story. 

[xylophone]

58 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

2 years ago there was a great 6 part docu/drama on the BBC about the Brinks-Mat robbery, Britain's biggest ever gold heist back in 1983. I thought that it was just a single series, but no, it's back for a second series and now the police are trying to track the rest of gold and the money that is being made off it.

 

It is brilliant! If you haven't viewed the 1st series, it would be well worth watching first so that you get the full story. 

I watched both series 1 & 2 and thought they were great, esp as I thought that series 2 surely couldn't match the first one......but it did!!