Netflix recommendations

[Aladdin]

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 ?

I certainly learned handcrafts including embroidery and knitting at school. It wasn't confined to girls only either. And my primary school days were long long after the vote!!


I watched Enola Holmes. Liked it. I hope the rest of the books get televised. She most certainly wasnt a character restrained by the corsetry of the day or the mindset

 

[teqniq]

Just watched the film 'Mosul'. Really well done.

Inglourious Basterds of Mosul

It took five hours to watch the 101-minute Netflix film on Mosul and process the emotions that resulted from the realistic portrayal of brutal warfare in my hometown.

newlinesmag.com

 

[T & P]

I was pleased to see The Queen’s Gambit has just become the most watched Netflix show of all time

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I was pleased to see The Queen’s Gambit has just become the most watched Netflix show of all time

A second season in the offing do we think?

 

[Orang Utan]

I was pleased to see The Queen’s Gambit has just become the most watched Netflix show of all time

They've even brought a boardgame of it out

 

[Reno]

They've even brought a boardgame of it out

I looked for it but I think there only is a Star Wars board game with that title. I suppose they could bring out a themed chess board to cash in on the show.

 

[fishfinger]

I looked for it but I think there only is a Star Wars board game with that title. I suppose they could bring out a themed chess board to cash in on the show.

I think you are over-thinking this.

 

[Reno]

I think you are over-thinking this.

I think you are right. Took a while for the penny to drop.

 

[D'wards]

Also recommend "We are the champions" We Are the Champions | Netflix Official Site for some fun, excitement and continuous wtf? wonderment.

Flo Early is cool as fuck

 

[LDC]

Just watched the film 'Mosul'. Really well done.

Inglourious Basterds of Mosul

It took five hours to watch the 101-minute Netflix film on Mosul and process the emotions that resulted from the realistic portrayal of brutal warfare in my hometown.

newlinesmag.com

Started that teqniq as it looked interesting, will get back to it maybe tonight.

 

[fucthest8]

Just watched the film 'Mosul'. Really well done.

Inglourious Basterds of Mosul

It took five hours to watch the 101-minute Netflix film on Mosul and process the emotions that resulted from the realistic portrayal of brutal warfare in my hometown.

newlinesmag.com

Watched a trailer, had no idea it really was based pretty much in truth. That's got to be a tough watch.

 

[rubbershoes]

A second season in the offing do we think?

I hope not. What we've had is fantastic and self contained. She's beaten the Russians, and her own demons. What else is there to do?

 

[Reno]

I hope not. What we've had is fantastic and self contained. She's beaten the Russians, and her own demons. What else is there to do?

Beat China ?

 

[rubbershoes]

Beat China ?

After she's decided that her passion is for table tennis

 

[T & P]

I think it’d be best to leave it at that. Perhaps it’d be a different story if there was a sequel book they could base the new series on...

 

[8115]

I watched Me and Earl and the Dying Girl which somehow I've never seen before. I thought it was really really excellent, really well done. Reminded me so much of what it's like to be a teenager. Great film.

 

[T & P]

Finished S4 of Big Mouth. The previous one had started to feel a bit stale, but I thought this one was very funny indeed

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Homes and Watson was not as bad as the trailer suggested. That said, I only laughed at one gag. So still bad.
Swedish dicks has got off to a good start. Lightweight stuff but I accidentally watched two in a row, so must be ok.
Always be my maybe - sounds like a regular romantic comedy, but it's actually pretty good, enjoyable. Ali Wong stars.
Discovery might be horse shit, but the 15 minute shorts that are included as 'trailers and other stuff' are mostly decent .

 

[Epona]

I watched Me and Earl and the Dying Girl which somehow I've never seen before. I thought it was really really excellent, really well done. Reminded me so much of what it's like to be a teenager. Great film.

I love that film - I saw it was on Netflix but I have seen it 3 or 4 times on Freeview over the last few years (probably Film 4 but not sure?) - I think worth watching for anyone who is into slightly offbeat coming of age type stuff - definitely one of the better ones. Olivia Cooke is superb in it.

 

[Aladdin]

The Midnight Sky looks like it could be good. Out on the 23rd Dec.

 

[Part 2]

The Accusation. Four 45 minute episodes, documentary about the Dominic Strauus Khan sexual assault case. I hadn't followed the story at the time so didn't know what came of it however it was clear from the start that the accuser was going to be presented as a liar, while the French are shown to love a womaniser. His former PA was loving her moment of fame, a few legal folk interviewed while laughing about the whole thing and there's a suspect video of some security guards at the hotel with a bit of political conspiracy thrown in. He's a dirty old bastard though that's for sure.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The Netflix trailer is misleading as it shows the parts that lead you to believe the whole film is about gross experimentation and lab monsters. But it really is 75% war action thriller, 25% horror. And the latter doesn’t really start properly until the last third of the film.

The opening scene alone is a brilliant war film scene. Think Saving Private Ryan, but with paratroopers in the air instead of infantry on beaches. Worth watching for that alone.

I watched Overlord last night and agree about the opening scene. Absolutely terrifying! I enjoyed the rest of it too. I thought it was well put together, the gore nowhere near as bad as I was expecting and just the right amount of daft. And the actor best known on these shores as Euron Greyjoy who I love from many a Scandi drama.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I was in a funny mood last night so before Overlord, I thought I'd try something I wouldn't normally choose and settled on Ava - action/assassin movie with female protagonist.

Absolute arse. Do not bother.

 

[rubbershoes]

Staged. The only pure lockdown programme I can think of.

Michael Sheen and David Tennant (or should it be David Tennant and Michael Sheen) rehearse a play over zoom.

It's very funny.

Michael Sheen's hair sums up how many of us felt at the time

 

[sojourner]

Staged was on iplayer - I recommended it on that thread. We thought it was fucking absolutely bang on. Howling laughing at the incredulity shown when they were asked to rehearse on Zoom. Pretty much my reaction when asked to do streamed gigs

 

[frogwoman]

If you want a great bit of escapism check The King - Eternal Monarch on Netflix. All about parallel universes and a soppy romance.

 

[rubbershoes]

The trial of the Chicago 7

Entertaining, though Borat's accent was bad

 

[Idris2002]

Hurricane

Polish hurricane pilots in the Battle of Britain.

Maybe not the most original film if it's kind, but very well done, I thought.

 

[Elpenor]

I guess a tad more nuanced than the Polish squadron briefly featured in Guy Hamilton’s 60s classic Battle of Britain (a personal favourite).

 

[Raheem]

The Barrier. Spanish dystopian drama series. Good, not excellent. But it's based around a pandemic, and pretty weird how prescient it is considering it must have been in production during 2019.