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Korean drama is quite binge worthy, loved Extracurricular and going through My Mister at the moment

T & P said:
For those who like horror films and haven’t seen it yet, Hereditary has just been made available. Without doubt one of the best horror films of the last few years.
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Nah I hated it, first half is good but goes wildly off the rails after That scene. Midsommar is much better
 
ash said:
I need recommendations of other - good but bollocks type stuff. I’m ploughing through Homeland but thats too hard work at times . Just watched cuckoo which was great to start with but deteriorated by season 4. Any suggestions ?!?!
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Love, Death and Robots is a very good sci-fi anthology of adult animation shorts. Most of them in the 5 to 15 minutes-long bracket, so dead easy to dip in and out of.

Inevitably some of them are better than others, and one of them could be described as a tad sexist but the majority are at least very watchable and a few are very good indeed. And as each was done by a different artist/ writer, you get a good mix of genres and drawing styles

love death and robots - Google Search

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I watched two comedies the other night. One of them was a great example of how to write and direct a comedy and the other wasn’t.

Get Hard - I’d almost bet my life that the concept of this film was reverse engineered in some Hollywood Writers’ Room who just wanted Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart in a film together so decided to go down the laziest, cliché-ridden road imaginable.

This film is full of racial stereotypes, nothing too vulgar or offensive, just lazy. And a lot of the lines don’t hit, there’s nothing worse than seeing two good actors give it their all with terrible material and it’s just not funny. I cringe for actors in these sort of situations. There was one or two laugh out loud moments but ugh never again.

Thunder Road - I believe this film is a feature length based off a short film that done really well at some film festival about a guy who does a speech at his mother’s funeral. This film starts of with that speech but develops into a film about a likeable cop whose heart is in the right place but also manages to say or do the wrong thing and his life slowly crumbles before his eyes.

Now this isn’t a laugh out loud comedy, more a dark comedy/drama but I thought it was excellent. The guy who wrote, directed And starred in it, Jim Cummings, I’ve never heard of him before but he is damn good. The shots that focus on emotion, smart script and overall good acting all-round made this very worthwhile.
 
nagapie said:
How far did you have to go? I watched series 1 waiting for that moment to drop but I still think it's shit.
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It might not be for you if you think it’s at shite level atm, but it does get better with every season, as opposed to worse which is what tends to happen with multi-season series. In fact S1 is the weakest one IMO, but if you think back thawed the case with several other comedy series that became revered.

For me it works great because it doesn’t try to be a laugh-out-loud vehicle even though it’s in essence a sitcom. The character development never stops through the six seasons so it is not just meaningless hot air comedy writing. It’s feel-good without being cheesy, amusing and entertaining without trying (or needing) to be really funny, and once you get invested in the characters moving and emotional at places. A good complement (or antidote) to intense drama series.
 
Who killed Malcolm X, have a look, I know i said it before but srsly.
episode 5 reveal- His personal bodyguard up to and including the day he died was an infiltrator basically a spy paid by NYPD, who is here talking to the camera as an old man. Proper educational.
 
New season of The Politician just released today. Didn’t even know they were making a second, even though the ending of S1 left matters neatly open for a potential second season.

I know the very presence of Gwyneth Paltrow would have been a dealbreaker for many, but she’s a supporting character and did not spoil this anymore that she spoiled the Iron Man or Avengers films. All I can say is that without being anywhere near amazing the first season grew from just about watchable to surprisingly gripping as it progressed.

In spite of myself I ended up enjoying the first season more than I thought I would. Rather like the evolution of Desperate Housewives, what it started as seemly little more than a sarcastic social commentary on white privileged society in America developed into much more, including murder and other dastardly deeds.
 
Just watched Uppity, can recommend especially if you are into motorsport, but that is kind of irrelevant.
 
Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee doing what Spike Lee does - flashbacks. history, education. His timing is good with the (presumably shot last minute) BLM references but his message is as relevant as ever

I just wish it was half an hour shorter.

And of course, it's nice to see Lester Freamon and Clay Davis back together
 
Magnetic. Largely a bunch of well-off, good looking, drugged-up white people doing expensive hobbies using go-pros.

Parts of this are already available on youtube on vr.

Visually stunning, can take your breath away, regularly.
 
More than half way through Snowpiercer TV series and still enjoying it. Whilst it’s not mind blowing it has plenty enough going on to make it worthwhile IMO. More subplots and shades of grey among all factions at play then in the film, so it’s more than a straight serialisation of the film.
 
DexterTCN said:
Magnetic. Largely a bunch of well-off, good looking, drugged-up white people doing expensive hobbies using go-pros.

Parts of this are already available on youtube on vr.

Visually stunning, can take your breath away, regularly.
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I tried it. Entitled pricks enjoying the fruits of their parents' labour. I couldn't handle it.
 
DexterTCN said:
Magnetic. Largely a bunch of well-off, good looking, drugged-up white people doing expensive hobbies using go-pros.

Parts of this are already available on youtube on vr.

Visually stunning, can take your breath away, regularly.
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Dunno where you get your view of the people in that doc. I would say at least half of them aren't white, none of them are drugged up and most of them rely on sponsorship or just fund themselves. You're right about one thing though - most of them use go pros (but who doesn't in those worlds?)

The Hawaiian surfer surviving a 2 or 3 wave hold down at Nazare; sure that he was going to die and then the rush he clearly felt afterwards was nuts.

I have never seen anything like those guys speed flying in NZ :eek:

It's beautifully filmed and well worth a watch imo.
 
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I clicked on the first thing that appeared in netflix for some background noise, it turned out to be Space Force, which I didn't really have an opinion on but did make me laugh, it doesn't need much thought, is occasionally very funny and easy to have on in the background.
 
www.theverge.com

Netflix is making it easier for people to remove titles from their ‘continue watching’ row

Just because you start a movie on Netflix doesn’t mean it should haunt you forever
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Finally! Really annoying to have things you stopped watching because you don't like them in the continue wathching section. I've often skipped to the end of a film I've not been enjoying just to keep it out of there, but it'll be nice to be able to clear out tv series and films I've forgotten to "finish".
 
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