Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Netflix recommendations

Big, BIG recommendation to the new South Korean sci-fi thriller Call. Fantastic premise, very clever, thought provoking, and thoroughly gripping and enjoyable throughout.

Big thumbs up from the critics as well if you don’t want to take my word for it. As sci-fi thrillers go, you will not be disappointed. Without a doubt, one of the very best in the genre I’ve seen in years. Fucking fantastic.
 
Berlin Calling... A friend recommended today, watched it... Can't believe I never heard of it. It's very good. Dark... But very good.
www.netflix.com

Watch Berlin Calling | Netflix

DJ Ickarus is at the top of his game, dazzling fans and touring the world -- until he gets locked in the loony bin after taking a few too many drugs.
www.netflix.com www.netflix.com

Also, Babylon... Recognised some samples from songs I heard and also someone I knew many many years ago is in it! We weren't close friends but he was flatmates with a good friend of mine. It really stays with you that film. Babylon | Netflix
 
Another recommend for "the queens gambit" - really great drama. engrossing, top performances, script, soundtrack - all spot on. A prime of example of "show don't tell" - i.e. i dont think at any point that Beth really talks about her emotional/psychological state or how she feels about the people around her - we deduce it from what she says and does, her physicality and facial expression. Unlike soooo much film and TV we are not told what to think or feel about the story - we are shown what we are shown and our emotional response and interpretation of the story is our own.

The crown - i tried most of the first series - but found it really dull and the pace glacial, liz and phil are not remotely interesting characters and their micro parlor power games and with the rest of the family and who princess margaret is shagging are of no interest to me - the historical poltical drama is all happening outside of their wierd bubble.

Might skip forward to thatcher stuff seeing as people are rating that.
 
Reno said:
I started watching the well received Russian pandemic drama/thriller To the Lake, but gave up before the first episode was over. Every character is a cliche, engineered for maximum conflict, antagonising those nearest and dearest at every point (this is why I could never watch EastEnders). Russian directors working in the mainstream all want to be Michael Bay, trying hard to dazzle with attention grabbing camera work. This show's party trick is to attach GoPro cameras to actors heads for POV shots. I threw in the towel when in a clumsy exposition dump, the mother of a teenage boy obviously meant to be read as autistic, laboriously explains to the guests at a dinner party what autism is. Friends of subtlety need not apply.

Then I moved on to Black Spot and I'm two episodes in. This is ok, it's just too reminiscent of other shows. Its a French-Belgian crime drama, with a supernatural twist. It takes place in a rural town, surrounded by a forest, which has a homicide rate six times that of the rest of the country. Every episode centres on a case, but it connects to a larger story of something sinister lurking in the woods, which moves it into folk-horror territory. Its nicely shot and features a female cop with a mystery, as these show always do. This is very reminiscent Jordskott, a Scandi-cop show, also set in a town next to a forest which may be the home to something supernatural and it has the look and feel of the French show The Returned.
Click to expand...

I quite enjoyed the first series of The Rain
 
danny la rouge said:
I’m looking for recommendations. The last two I had were duff.

Cursed. Got 5 mins in. The acting was dreadful, but I don’t blame them. If I had dialogue that bad I’d give up too.

Maniac. Nope. Not for me. Got 12 mins in. Not in the mood.

What do I like? Scandi noir. Space sci fi (not superhero sci fi). Documentaries that aren’t all melodramatic. History preferably. I liked Dark 1 & 2 but couldn’t follow 3. I liked Mindhunter. I thought the Alienist 1 was great but 2 was too long. Don’t think we need another. Thought Messiah was OK. But I think Netflix were right not to make another season. I like Montelbano, Marcella, the Fall. I liked Bordertown. I like Discovery. I hate the Crown.

I just want something to binge when Mrs la rouge is watching baking.
Click to expand...

Sacred Games?

Starts off as a standard race against time cop/villain story but it's much more than that. There's 2 lives, set on course to converge and it's gripping how that comes about. Police, politicians, gangsters and gurus.
 
T & P said:
Big, BIG recommendation to the new South Korean sci-fi thriller Call. Fantastic premise, very clever, thought provoking, and thoroughly gripping and enjoyable throughout.

Big thumbs up from the critics as well if you don’t want to take my word for it. As sci-fi thrillers go, you will not be disappointed. Without a doubt, one of the very best in the genre I’ve seen in years. Fucking fantastic.
Click to expand...

Is it Call, or The Call?
 
T & P said:
It’s both. Or at least I have seen it referred in both formats. But perhaps it is The Call on Netflix.
Click to expand...
Haven’t seen this one yet, but it’s a remake of the 2011 horror film The Caller. I liked the premise of that but it fell apart in the second half, so maybe this one works better.

I think this was called The Call, then it turned out there also is a US horror film with that title coming out at the same time, so they hastily dropped the “The”.
 
Reno said:
Haven’t seen this one yet, but it’s a remake of the 2011 horror film The Caller. I liked the premise of that but it fell apart in the second half, so maybe this one works better.

I think this was called The Call, then it turned out there also is a US horror film with that title coming out at the same time, so they hastily dropped the “The”.
Click to expand...
I thought this one kept the tension up and kept you guessing at the outcome all the way through, so it sounds better than the 2011 original.
 
This is not a recommendation cos I only lasted twenty minutes. Hillbilly Elegy is shite.
Here’s Glenn Close in it:
EAB720AE-0C31-43EF-B343-D04EA72A70F3.jpeg
 
Reno said:
I started watching the well received Russian pandemic drama/thriller To the Lake, but gave up before the first episode was over. Every character is a cliche, engineered for maximum conflict, antagonising those nearest and dearest at every point (this is why I could never watch EastEnders). Russian directors working in the mainstream all want to be Michael Bay, trying hard to dazzle with attention grabbing camera work. This show's party trick is to attach GoPro cameras to actors heads for POV shots. I threw in the towel when in a clumsy exposition dump, the mother of a teenage boy obviously meant to be read as autistic, laboriously explains to the guests at a dinner party what autism is. Friends of subtlety need not apply.

Then I moved on to Black Spot and I'm two episodes in. This is ok, it's just too reminiscent of other shows. Its a French-Belgian crime drama, with a supernatural twist. It takes place in a rural town, surrounded by a forest, which has a homicide rate six times that of the rest of the country. Every episode centres on a case, but it connects to a larger story of something sinister lurking in the woods, which moves it into folk-horror territory. Its nicely shot and features a female cop with a mystery, as these show always do. This is very reminiscent Jordskott, a Scandi-cop show, also set in a town next to a forest which may be the home to something supernatural and it has the look and feel of the French show The Returned.
Click to expand...

Watching Black Spot now.
 
Enola Holmes - light weight but good and enjoyable stuff. Posed the question though about deportment and embroidery for women . When did this go off the national curriculum did it coincide with the vote ?
 
T & P said:
Big, BIG recommendation to the new South Korean sci-fi thriller Call. Fantastic premise, very clever, thought provoking, and thoroughly gripping and enjoyable throughout.

Big thumbs up from the critics as well if you don’t want to take my word for it. As sci-fi thrillers go, you will not be disappointed. Without a doubt, one of the very best in the genre I’ve seen in years. Fucking fantastic.
Click to expand...

I watched this last night. Wow, it's a very fast paced film, there must be a plot twist every 5 minutes...and of course I lost the plot in the last 5 when I thought it was over. Will rewatch that bit today.

Very good though and very much recommended for fans of time travel, future altering stuff that demands complete attention.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Voley
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
10 11 12 13 14
Replies
393
Views
13K
krtek a houby
krtek a houby
frogwoman
Sally Rooney - recommendations?
Replies
11
Views
256
Red Cat
R
savoloysam
Film Recommendations Please
Replies
29
Views
697
savoloysam
savoloysam
N
Free Halloween movie recommendations on YouTube
Replies
28
Views
466
krtek a houby
krtek a houby
Orang Utan
Live Stand Up Comedy Recommendations
Replies
16
Views
497
Orang Utan
Orang Utan
Back
Top Bottom