surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
We know you are a F1 fan.
The excellent Senna documentary is available .
No doubt you have seen this already..
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The excellent Senna documentary is available .
No doubt you have seen this already..
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
Thanks, but yes, have seen it lots and have it on BluRay.
T & P
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I only decided to check this out because I saw your post a couple of days ago- at the end of the day, 'Paper Girls' is not exactly a title that promises great things.
But it turns out it is pretty much an all-female Stranger Things meets Back to the Future. So a lot more interesting premise than its name would suggest, and pretty intriguing so far. Certainly once you get past the first two thirds of the first episode.
So recommended to fans of Stranger Things-style sci-fi series
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Other than a brief eighties setting and teen (or in this case, preteen) casting, it isn't really Stranger Things, more Dark crossed with Blake's Seven. But not (mostly) the good bits of Blake's Seven.I only decided to check this out because I saw your post a couple of days ago- at the end of the day, 'Paper Girls' is not exactly a title that promises great things.
But it turns out it is pretty much an all-female Stranger Things meets Back to the Future. So a lot more interesting premise than its name would suggest, and pretty intriguing so far. Certainly once you get past the first two thirds of the first episode.
So recommended to fans of Stranger Things-style sci-fi series
I only stuck with the first three episodes cos I was stoned and cba to go to bed. Both the weird goodies and baddies looked just like they were straight from B7. The original version, not some high production remake. ie, shit. Eventually it has got sufficiently silly and enjoyable (I still have the last episode to watch). Although there is an element in episode 6 for which I cannot forgive them. It risks undermining the entire series (unless there is a clever bit later on where the plot hinges on XX rectifying their mistake). I must forward delicate readers, for it is shocking
They skip Barry Lyndon. Barry muckle flugging Lyndon. They could sit through 2001, a movie which fails all three aspects of the Bechdel Test, but not Barry Lyndon? They're fucking philistines.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
T & P
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Thirteen Lives. New Ron Howard film about the Thai boys who got trapped in a flooded cave.
It is actually bloody good! Much better than I’d anticipated it to be. The only weak link is the underdeveloped characters and wooden dialogue of the two British divers who went there to help, with a bizarre performance by a miscast Colin Farrell, but don’t let that out you off. This film isn’t really about them, and Howard is wise enough to make this film mainly about the boys, their families and the local community, as well as the technical challenges the rescue team faced.
A gripping and enjoyable film, and a firm recommendation from me.
It is actually bloody good! Much better than I’d anticipated it to be. The only weak link is the underdeveloped characters and wooden dialogue of the two British divers who went there to help, with a bizarre performance by a miscast Colin Farrell, but don’t let that out you off. This film isn’t really about them, and Howard is wise enough to make this film mainly about the boys, their families and the local community, as well as the technical challenges the rescue team faced.
A gripping and enjoyable film, and a firm recommendation from me.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I've been watching The Blacklist recently, which is absolute nonsense, but really good fun.
James Spader pretty much plays his Alan Shore character from Boston Legal (who's one of my favourite TV characters) but a very dark and sinister version, prone to a bit of torture and murder. The premise is totally bonkers but it's well made and romps along nicely after the first few episodes. Also, bad guys die horribly in most episodes which makes it rather satisfying.
James Spader pretty much plays his Alan Shore character from Boston Legal (who's one of my favourite TV characters) but a very dark and sinister version, prone to a bit of torture and murder. The premise is totally bonkers but it's well made and romps along nicely after the first few episodes. Also, bad guys die horribly in most episodes which makes it rather satisfying.
I also watched Harlem which is like a black Sex in the City similarly centred around a band of four professional women including a lead who is a writer who delivers an inane narration at the start of every episode.
But it is actually much better than Sex in the City as it explores lots of the complexities of being a black woman including sexual orientation and one really good episode where one of the main characters gets poor medical treatment because of her race and the dismissiveness of the medical community towards women's medical issues in general.
But it is actually much better than Sex in the City as it explores lots of the complexities of being a black woman including sexual orientation and one really good episode where one of the main characters gets poor medical treatment because of her race and the dismissiveness of the medical community towards women's medical issues in general.
There is also some stuff on gentrification which was timely considering the issues of gentrification in Brixton and the recent Harlem festival here.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Did you see Summer Of Soul? You’d love it
No, don't think I've heard of it but will take a look
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
It’s good, but I thought everything was underdeveloped. Every character, the rainwater/local govt/Myanmar subplots… it touches on lots but never at any depth. Despite all of that it’s compelling and moving and doesn’t feel overlong (though it’s almost 2hr 30.)
Mortesson was excellent, I thought. And Howard resists any temptation to melodrama. It’s all very understated. Should probably have been a three-parter.
Loved the end.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Deliberate choice not to make it a 'white saviour' film.
Going underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue
Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explains
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Yes, I like The Blacklist too. James Spader is brilliant in it, as the central complex character who's neither completely bad or good, but more nuanced. It's another good example of the type of show that has a strong story per episode, but then other story arcs crossing multiple episodes, or the whole season, and then the overall multi-season story arc. Good ensemble cast too.
T & P
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Good on him. It would have been an embarrassing travesty if anyone had tried to make that kind of film here.Deliberate choice not to make it a 'white saviour' film.
Going underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue
Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explainswww.theguardian.com
It is absolutely incredible that they pulled it off. If the film hadn’t been based on a true story, one would go ‘Oh, fuck off!’ at it. I was also surprised at how much politics was at play at a local level from day 1.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Loved Paper Girls, thanks for the recommendation.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I hate it when they do that shit.
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