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Fleishman is in Trouble has just dropped in its entirety. Very good so far. Seems to have been very well received across the board as well. Recommended.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble review – Jesse Eisenberg’s endlessly witty divorce drama is almost too good | Television & radio | The Guardian
This tale of a middle-class Manhattan woman who vanishes, leaving her ex with the kids, is utterly addictive. It’s such a treat that when it’s over, you’ll feel bereft
krtek a houby
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Wakanda Forever very moving in parts, and a lot better than expected. We enjoyed it more than the first film.
T & P
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Same here. I found the first a bore, frankly.
krtek a houby
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Wouldn't go as far as that. Just found it a bit straight laced, dry.
Loved the sets and design in both movies, esp the second.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
To my surprise I not only got through all of Willow but enjoyed it. It's comedy fantasy and there were usually a couple of laugh out loud moments in each episode. Some entertaining characters and good lines, and enough twists and turns to make the deliberately cheesy 'chosen one' narrative palatable. I think the tv series surpasses the film, which didn't do much for me.
ruffneck23
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
DIE MOTHERFUCKERS DIE MOTHERFUCKERS
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I'm always amazed how many people tell me I'd like Idiocracy if I liked Office Space.
No. It's a horrible film and the two are nothing alike!
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Best thing on Disney+. In fact, one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Series 2, Teddy Perkins is a piece of pure genius.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Crossposting from the DVD thread because I realised it's on Disney+
The French Dispatch
Ah, this is the Wes Anderson I know. Grand Budapest and Isle of Dogs were a blip of excellence in an otherwise irritating career. Long story short, if you like Wes (and many do) then you'll like this. If you're not normally a fan but are willing to give him a chance after GBH and Dogs, this is a return to his usual total style over substance ways. At least in this case it is offered up as a sort of anthology, so there's an excuse for utterly no plot to hang together. I wanted to like it - like always with Wes - just for how pretty it is, but it annoyed me too much. Oooh, look at how kooky we've written everyone. sigh
The French Dispatch
Ah, this is the Wes Anderson I know. Grand Budapest and Isle of Dogs were a blip of excellence in an otherwise irritating career. Long story short, if you like Wes (and many do) then you'll like this. If you're not normally a fan but are willing to give him a chance after GBH and Dogs, this is a return to his usual total style over substance ways. At least in this case it is offered up as a sort of anthology, so there's an excuse for utterly no plot to hang together. I wanted to like it - like always with Wes - just for how pretty it is, but it annoyed me too much. Oooh, look at how kooky we've written everyone. sigh
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
A reminder that Disney will be jettisoning quite a few shows today, including Willow, Pistol and The Right Stuff.
www.indiewire.com
All 76 Titles Getting Removed from Disney+ and Hulu on Friday
“Willow,” “Y: The Last Man,” and “The Mysterious Benedict Society” are among the casualties of Disney’s HBO Max-esque move.
www.indiewire.com
T & P
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American-born Chinese. A not quite grownups’ but also not quite full on children’s fantasy action comedy series based on a graphic novel. Not easy to summarise but it involves quarrying Chinese mythology Gods descending to present day USA to battle for ultimate control of Heaven, and race relations and ordinary struggles of the Chinese Immigrant community.
You know what? It’s actually very good, certainly if you are prepared to watch young adult content. You’ll need to get past the very first scene based in Chinese Heaven because it feels like series it’s going to be a silly children’s show, but wait until the action transfers to Earth. It’s got four main characters from Everything Everywhere All at Once, and ultimately it’s a highly original hybrid subject oddity that somehow works.
You know what? It’s actually very good, certainly if you are prepared to watch young adult content. You’ll need to get past the very first scene based in Chinese Heaven because it feels like series it’s going to be a silly children’s show, but wait until the action transfers to Earth. It’s got four main characters from Everything Everywhere All at Once, and ultimately it’s a highly original hybrid subject oddity that somehow works.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I was looking forward to this and started it last night only to be hugely disappointed by the perpetual swearing and constant use of "nigger" that rendered it unwatchable for me.
Binning it after 1 episode.
ruffneck23
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Shame you dont like it, although being a series about crack dealers in the US in he 80s, I'm not sure what you expected.
It's based on a true story with the lead actor being the son of one of the Felony brothers, so I guess they are ok with the language.
Anyway as it's not for you, the Ted Lasso series finale dropped this morning and it's lovely
T & P
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Really enjoyed the Ted Lasso finale too, more of it in the Apple thread.Shame you dont like it, although being a series about crack dealers in the US in he 80s, I'm not sure what you expected.
It's based on a true story with the lead actor being the son of one of the Felony brothers, so I guess they are ok with the language.
Anyway as it's not for you, the Ted Lasso series finale dropped this morning and it's lovely
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Orang Utan
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Ted Lasso and Platonic are both on Apple, not Disney
T & P
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Sorry, you’re completely right. I was replying to the previous post which mentioned Ted Lasso and forgot where I was. Will edit/ delete.
T & P
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Good god, they have made a sequel series of The Full Monty. Featuring many of the main characters from the film.
I will take one for the team and check out the first episode so you don’t have to. Then again I can’t imagine many people dying to watch it. I haven’t watched the film for probably twenty years, but one cursory thought back to it is sufficient to remember how cringeworthy it was in the first place, and how badly it has aged really badly as well.
I will take one for the team and check out the first episode so you don’t have to. Then again I can’t imagine many people dying to watch it. I haven’t watched the film for probably twenty years, but one cursory thought back to it is sufficient to remember how cringeworthy it was in the first place, and how badly it has aged really badly as well.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Alice Nutter co-wrote it, so it can’t be all bad.
Lucy Mangan didn’t like it cos it has too much politics in it. Well, duuuuur
Lucy Mangan didn’t like it cos it has too much politics in it. Well, duuuuur
T & P
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Don’t mind it being political at all- on the contrary in fact.
When the film first came out it was the kind of bland comedy fodder (though to be fair it had the odd fairly funny scene) that is safe to watch with your aunt of a Sunday afternoon. The ‘humour’ about the character who comes out as gay though is awful.
Will report after I’ve watched the first episode.
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