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rubbershoes said:
Watched the first half of Wasp Network about Cuban emigres in Miami.
It wasn't doing enough to make me watch the rest.
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I have a small, relatively uninteresting theory that streaming services have changed forever the way we consume entertainment. I start around 5 films before I get to the point where I think "yeah, this one seems ok." On a positive note, I have honed my taste to a razor sharp edge.
nottsgirl said:
I'm really enjoying Unforgotten. It's pretty good although the resolution of both the first and second series are slightly incredible.
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I really like this one. Although, have you noticed that the plot of each one is an almost exact copy of the previous one?
When Cassie (I can never remember anyone's name so that tells you how much focus I've given this one) has a breakdown at the end of Season 3 that really really hit me hard. It has also helped me enormously in so much as I have got a lot further with insights into my breakdown at work. When she is interviewing The Sociopath and she's just leaking out of her eyes, that was me for so long at work and everywhere else. I didn't understand what was happening and just pushed on. In the end, that lead to me being sectioned due to suicidal thoughts. This episode made me feel so desolate for that person I was. For the lack of understanding I had and so angry with work for their lack of care. I'm good now though. :)
felixthecat said:
Do not bother attempting to watch Capone. It is not worth anyone's time or energy

This is a public service announcement
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OH. MY. God.

I watched this after reading about how much of a complete arse Tom Hardy is to people who work on his films. Watching it gave me a little warm glow. It is so fucking terrible, isn't it?
spanglechick said:
Also. I keep meaning to say: I predicted that Gillian Anderson would get awards for her Thatcher in The Crown, and she got a Golden Globe last week.
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I loved her in that. So so good. I really wish you could bet on awards. I mean, I know you kind of can in a novelty way but I wish there was a bookies just for media. I would be all over that with my 50p Trebles.
 
krtek a houby said:
Community if you like Alison Brie, Atlanta if you like Donald Glover, or Crazy Ex Girlfriend for just sheer brilliance

Or all three. Hard to pick a winner. That said, I've not seen beyond season 2 of Community. So maybe the other choices.

Or Orange is the New Black or Russian Doll because the ace Natasha Lyonne is in both of them.
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Done community ages ago and russian doll. Started new black and gave up, so maybe that's one to try again in the same way I did with glow. Not heard of the Glover ones before.
 
nagapie said:
After watching series 3 of Shtisl, which is an amazing drama series and which I adore but is really a rather affectionate and rosy tinged look at the Hasidic community, I watched One of Us, a documentary about people who leave the Hasidic community. It was harrowing. I cannot believe that in 2007 New York State judges were still delivering groups of children back to their abusive fathers in the community when mothers had dared to leave. Shocking.
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Judges are still doing it quite routinely over here. It’s taken many years of hard work by Jewish Women’s Aid to finally get Get refusal included as a form of abuse in the new DV Bill over here, but mandatory training for family court judges on DV won’t be included, so we can expect the same fuck ups for years to come.

I think Shtisel can be seen as rosy tinted, but part of what made it so popular was that it humanised a group who are so shrouded in mystery and perceived so stereotypically and negatively. I’ve seen some interviews with New York Hasidics, very upset about Unorthodox and One of Us, not because they were denying the stories as real, but because they feel it’s the only ever portrayal of their community and not everyone lives a life of depressed and abused drudgery (although without doubt most of the women are massively repressed). I think they’re all nuts, but I’m glad Shtisel has tried to give another perspective.
 
purenarcotic said:
Judges are still doing it quite routinely over here. It’s taken many years of hard work by Jewish Women’s Aid to finally get Get refusal included as a form of abuse in the new DV Bill over here, but mandatory training for family court judges on DV won’t be included, so we can expect the same fuck ups for years to come.

I think Shtisel can be seen as rosy tinted, but part of what made it so popular was that it humanised a group who are so shrouded in mystery and perceived so stereotypically and negatively. I’ve seen some interviews with New York Hasidics, very upset about Unorthodox and One of Us, not because they were denying the stories as real, but because they feel it’s the only ever portrayal of their community and not everyone lives a life of depressed and abused drudgery (although without doubt most of the women are massively repressed). I think they’re all nuts, but I’m glad Shtisel has tried to give another perspective.
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Absolutely agree. Shtisl shows another side, with all the caveats. And it's so beautifully human, which sometimes it seems hard to square up with a group like Hasidic Jews, so also necessary.
Although One of Us is undoubtedly one sided, it is very clear that this lifestyle and it's fierce protection of its beliefs is a direct result of severe trauma, and that's important to remember too.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Done community ages ago and russian doll. Started new black and gave up, so maybe that's one to try again in the same way I did with glow. Not heard of the Glover ones before.
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Orange Is The New Black is worth persevering with, esp after the focus shifts away from Piper.

Atlanta is peerless, imho
 
Love and Monsters. A surprisingly good and enjoyable fantasy film perfect for the weekend.

(The following synopsis is not a spoiler as it is told at the very beginning of the film). An cataclysmic event changes the DNA of all animal species and mutate them into killing machines, and humans have to go underground to survive. The story revolves around a young man deciding to go on a journey on the surface for reasons that will be explained.

Don’t go thinking it’s a kiddie film because of the 12 certificate. Grown ups looking for an entertaining Sunday afternoon film will like it as much as teenagers. Recommended to those who like that kind of escapist films of a weekend.
 
nottsgirl said:
The Martian is pretty good, although very very predictable.
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The book is great, in particular if you are into plausible near-future science. Cue the Urban boffins coming now and saying I am wrong, but I got the feeling the author did his research and the science and technology described is theoretically plausible and how the real-life first manned visits to Mars will be planned.
 
T & P said:
Love and Monsters. A surprisingly good and enjoyable fantasy film perfect for the weekend.

(The following synopsis is not a spoiler as it is told at the very beginning of the film). An cataclysmic event changes the DNA of all animal species and mutate them into killing machines, and humans have to go underground to survive. The story revolves around a young man deciding to go on a journey on the surface for reasons that will be explained.

Don’t go thinking it’s a kiddie film because of the 12 certificate. Grown ups looking for an entertaining Sunday afternoon film will like it as much as teenagers. Recommended to those who like that kind of escapist films of a weekend.
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I really enjoyed it. It's well worth a go.
 
In Time. The film was released in 2011, but I'd never heard of it. It's a sci-fi film, dystopian futuristic, not spacey. The premise is that when people reach the age of 25, they stop ageing, but also they have a digital clock on their arm that starts counting down a year, they have a year left to live. So far, so Logan's Run. But people can earn more time or transfer time to one another, so poor people can run out of time and drop dead on the spot when their time expires, whereas rich people can effectively become immortal.

Justin Timberlake stars as a guy from the poor zone and Amanda Seyfriend as the wealthy daughter of an obscenely rich guy in the rich zone.

It's a passable sci-fi action film, but what I thought was interesting was the time = money thing, the fact that there's no money, time is currency, people selling their labour were selling their time, and poor people didn't have enough time and their lifespans were foreshortened, while rich people had more time than they could use or spend, so it worked overall as a critique of capitalism, in the sense of time is money, like time literally is money in this movie and there are haves and have nots.
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
In Time. The film was released in 2011, but I'd never heard of it. It's a sci-fi film, dystopian futuristic, not spacey. The premise is that when people reach the age of 25, they stop ageing, but also they have a digital clock on their arm that starts counting down a year, they have a year left to live. So far, so Logan's Run. But people can earn more time or transfer time to one another, so poor people can run out of time and drop dead on the spot when their time expires, whereas rich people can effectively become immortal.

Justin Timberlake stars as a guy from the poor zone and Amanda Seyfriend as the wealthy daughter of an obscenely rich guy in the rich zone.

It's a passable sci-fi action film, but what I thought was interesting was the time = money thing, the fact that there's no money, time is currency, people selling their labour were selling their time, and poor people didn't have enough time and their lifespans were foreshortened, while rich people had more time than they could use or spend, so it worked overall as a critique of capitalism, in the sense of time is money, like time literally is money in this movie and there are haves and have nots.
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Are you in the USA or something?
 
T & P said:
Love and Monsters. A surprisingly good and enjoyable fantasy film perfect for the weekend.

(The following synopsis is not a spoiler as it is told at the very beginning of the film). An cataclysmic event changes the DNA of all animal species and mutate them into killing machines, and humans have to go underground to survive. The story revolves around a young man deciding to go on a journey on the surface for reasons that will be explained.

Don’t go thinking it’s a kiddie film because of the 12 certificate. Grown ups looking for an entertaining Sunday afternoon film will like it as much as teenagers. Recommended to those who like that kind of escapist films of a weekend.
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Watching now, not massively impressed so far, but the daughter is down with it.
So far we have had Vintage The The and Lee Hazelwood, on the soundtrack which is quite nice.
 
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