On 7/3/2025 at 12:29 PM, stupidfarang said:

Watched Black Doves, excellent series

 

Black Doves is a British spy action thriller television series created by Joe Barton. The series, starring Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, and Sarah Lancashire

 

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81682935 

I stopped watching it after the second episode because I'm not keen on watching gays being rodgered or having a dinner party for one thing, secondly Ben Wishaw exhibits many of the characteristics that I remember from his character "Norman Scott" in the series, "A Typical English Scandal" and it doesn't seem that he can shake them off.

 

Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but if I refer to Tom Hanks and the different characters he portrays in his movies, without any one of them reflecting on the other, then you may see what I mean.

 

As if to confound the issue, Keira Knightley with her increasingly annoying smile (or attempt at one) just gets on my nerves, so having downloaded the series, I will now delete it.

 

I was misled by a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97% and an IMDb rating of 7.9 into watching Sinners last night.

Two hours and 17 minutes later, still no payoff. Watching paint dry would’ve been time better spent.

 

Sinners (2025) - IMDb

4 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

 

I was misled by a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97% and an IMDb rating of 7.9 into watching Sinners last night.

Two hours and 17 minutes later, still no payoff. Watching paint dry would’ve been time better spent.

 

Sinners (2025) - IMDb

Yeah I've also heard great things about that movie.

So you didn't like it. I'm still going to give it a go.

2 hours ago, xylophone said:

I stopped watching it after the second episode because I'm not keen on watching gays being rodgered or having a dinner party for one thing, secondly Ben Wishaw exhibits many of the characteristics that I remember from his character "Norman Scott" in the series, "A Typical English Scandal" and it doesn't seem that he can shake them off.

 

Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but if I refer to Tom Hanks and the different characters he portrays in his movies, without any one of them reflecting on the other, then you may see what I mean.

 

As if to confound the issue, Keira Knightley with her increasingly annoying smile (or attempt at one) just gets on my nerves, so having downloaded the series, I will now delete it.

Yes, I agree 👍 

 I just finished secrets we keep 

 

It began as a regular Nordic series, ended up in a pretty dark place. Well worth a wet Sunday aftenoons binge viewing.

 

 

Dragonfly - August 16

 

Good reviews 👍 

 

 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt32383425/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

16 hours ago, recom273 said:

 I just finished secrets we keep 

 

It began as a regular Nordic series, ended up in a pretty dark place. Well worth a wet Sunday aftenoons binge viewing.

 

 

Thanks for the heads up @recom273. I'll have a look at Secrets We Keep.

I've just finished  season 1 of A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story and enjoyed it. It was recommended by @oxo1947 a while back. It's on TheRARBG  & TPB.

Thought this was excellent.

When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life.

 

 

Whole season of Bosch spinoff Ballard dropping now on scene rls. Should be on usenet too. Don't whine about can't find torrents.

 

 

Ballard.

 

The whole series has dropped om EZTV.

Sandman is back with season 2. 

 

Season one was okay

New Netflix series just released.

 

 

I decided to download and watch a movie from a few years ago called "Ronin", the one which starred Robert De Niro and Jean Reno, amongst others, and although I remembered parts of it, it was still an enjoyable movie.

 

What surprised me when I was looking up its history (online) was that although it made a profit after all the costs, it was only a small one compared to other movies of that ilk! Also some critics didn't like it so it didn't seem to get the following it should have done?

On 7/7/2025 at 7:07 AM, faraday said:

Dragonfly - August 16

 

Good reviews 👍 

 

 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt32383425/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Can't seem to find that @faraday....any clues??

26 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Can't seem to find that @faraday....any clues??

16th August !

1 minute ago, LosLobo said:

16th August !

Thanks......that explains it!!

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Can't seem to find that @faraday....any clues??

Not out until next Wednesday 

Forgot to post my reply to you..😁

On 1/24/2025 at 5:55 AM, mstevens said:

 

I thought series 1 was weak and the two main characters were very wooden.

Both criticisms are valid but compared to the rest of the junk available, it's at least watchable.

On 7/6/2025 at 11:34 AM, xylophone said:

I stopped watching it after the second episode because I'm not keen on watching gays being rodgered or having a dinner party for one thing, secondly Ben Wishaw exhibits many of the characteristics that I remember from his character "Norman Scott" in the series, "A Typical English Scandal" and it doesn't seem that he can shake them off.

 

Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but if I refer to Tom Hanks and the different characters he portrays in his movies, without any one of them reflecting on the other, then you may see what I mean.

 

As if to confound the issue, Keira Knightley with her increasingly annoying smile (or attempt at one) just gets on my nerves, so having downloaded the series, I will now delete it.

Good choice, I watched the whole thing and regretted it. Just a millenial mess. 

On 7/6/2025 at 12:06 PM, Jingthing said:

Yeah I've also heard great things about that movie.

So you didn't like it. I'm still going to give it a go.

I thought it was wildly overpraised but still okay. It started off strong but then turned into a ridiculous zombie movie.

 

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1571014681/?playlistId=tt6300910&ref_=tt_ov_pr_ov_vi

1 hour ago, faraday said:

Not out until next Wednesday 

Hmmm....someone posted it was out on 16th August???

My absolutely favorites of the past years: 

Yellowstone 
Hells on Wheels
Big Bang Theory ... not everybody gets it, watch from 1st Episode to get it. 
Firefly - Serenity
Two and a Half men until the Kutscher Diot came for Charly
Married with children, for sure 
STAR TREK - Strange New Worlds 
The Orville - Star Trek a bit different

 

atm i am watching LOUDERMILK .... nice series about an Ex Alcoholic speaking things out and just giving two fxxx about what ppl  think about it 😎

 

Not very much into the newer series, most of them are mainstream cr4p, making ppl belive its totally normal changing your gender and in every series having at least one gay couple of men 
 

On 6/27/2025 at 8:43 AM, quake said:

Just love Sci-Fi.

Star trek , strange new worlds.

https://moviesjoytv.to/watch-tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-79759.8298481

yeah, its in my list of the Top 10 for sure. Finally great StarTrek again. The Orville is not bad too, but Strange New Worlds are a different number, i am loving La'an Noonien Singh and Anson Mount fits in perfectly with J.T.Kirk, Picard and yes, I liked Archer too. Not so much this constantly whining wannabe half Vulcan Michael  from Discovery...never managed to watch it really... 

5 hours ago, moskito said:

yeah, its in my list of the Top 10 for sure. Finally great StarTrek again. The Orville is not bad too, but Strange New Worlds are a different number, i am loving La'an Noonien Singh and Anson Mount fits in perfectly with J.T.Kirk, Picard and yes, I liked Archer too. Not so much this constantly whining wannabe half Vulcan Michael  from Discovery...never managed to watch it really... 

 

Waiting for the next season of the Orville, should be out soon.

Yes , Discovery, never got on with that show.

Big shame there will be no more star trek Picard. 

 

10 hours ago, xylophone said:

Hmmm....someone posted it was out on 16th August???

Yes the OP!

4 hours ago, quake said:

 

Waiting for the next season of the Orville, should be out soon.

Yes , Discovery, never got on with that show.

Big shame there will be no more star trek Picard. 

 

There is a 3rd season of Strange New Worlds coming soon too, looking forward to it, had no idea about a new Orville season. Kind of like Seth McFarlane 🙂  StarTrek Picard i only watched the first 2 seasons, 3rd one is out already but have not managed to watch yet. It had some intresting points, reminds me a bit of the first Bladerunner, like how do we know if we are Replicants or just some spacedust

btw guys, give LOUDERMILK a shot, its a bit different from all  the other shows i know. 
Started to watch it after i found this scene in YouTube, this guy is really something 
LOUDERMILK coffeeshop scene, vocal fry

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvIS2YxW6Xc