Netflix recommendations

[MrCurry]

I'm not a geek but I loved this.

“Making the Billion Dollar Code” is also worth a watch. I thought it would be just about the filming of the show, but it’s more about the back story to the case and includes some detail they omitted from the main show. Only half an hour or so.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I just watched Russian Doll in a oner. There was not enough of it, I'll have to give it a month and watch it again! What a great pairing those 2 were

 

[Epona]

I just watched Russian Doll in a oner. There was not enough of it, I'll have to give it a month and watch it again! What a great pairing those 2 were

Loved that series! Season 2 should be coming soon by rights, it was delayed due to COVID but filming has now finished and it should be on its way.

Of course I dread that it will be nowhere near as good as Season 1 - which is a brilliant and refreshing version of an oft overused premise.

 

[Stig]

Loved that series! Season 2 should be coming soon by rights, it was delayed due to COVID but filming has now finished and it should be on its way.

Of course I dread that it will be nowhere near as good as Season 1 - which is a brilliant and refreshing version of an oft overused premise.

I had no idea there was going to be a season 2! Or I had forgotten. looking forward to that.

 

[Epona]

I had no idea there was going to be a season 2! Or I had forgotten. looking forward to that.

It was originally proposed as a 3 season run iirc, it seems like aaaages since season 1 due to season 2 being delayed! It is in post-production though and I imagine will be available to watch within the next couple of months

 

[smmudge]

Currently ep 8 of Squid Game. Have to binge watch while the wife is on nights because she won't watch subtitles or dubbing. I'm enjoying the extra facets exploring a lot more around, what if this actually happened in our world? Rather than hunger games and Battle Royal which just accepts that it does in those worlds.

Recognised the old man as the monk from Spring Summer Fall Winter etc. which prompted me to look up what Kim Ki Duk has been up to recently (not watched any S Korean cinema for about 10 years!). Had a load of rape accusations against him. Gutted, 3 Iron was one of my favourite films, will be tainted now then he died of covid in Dec 2020. Don't know what to think of that really.

But anyway Squid Game is good... not sure it's worth the hype over other things but it has that iconography that is very memeable I suppose.

 

[souljacker]

The Billion Dollar Code is so good! Binge watched today. Based on the true story of German/Hungarian inventors of TerraVision, which was allegedly stolen and became Google Earth. Fascinating to look back at the early days of the computing revolution/evolution.

I clearly remember the first time I saw Google Earth, it was kinda magical.

Just finished this and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great story, well made and great performances from the two main characters and the rather lovely Lavinia Wilson. I actually remember reading about TerraVision (I was a bit of a Silicon Graphics fanboy in the late 80s early 90s) and it was definitely ripped off by Google IMO (I'm not a lawyer obv).

Ace soundtrack too. I'm now working my way through the really excellent work of UNS.

 

[Epona]

I keep trying to watch Ratched but it fails to keep my interest for long - I love the technicolour vibe and the music is great and I usually love Sarah Paulson - it's just every time I try to watch it I find myself drifting off after a while and not really paying attention to it and then half an episode has passed me by and I don't know what is going on!

Is it worth me starting from the beginning and trying to concentrate on it?

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Fantastic Fungi: Excellent documentary…a little mawkish but a must watch.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Fantastic Fungi: Excellent documentary…a little mawkish but a must watch.

Dunno what bits you feel were mawkish? I love seeing people talk about psychedelic therapy like they've made a proper breakthrough.

 

[T & P]

I keep trying to watch Ratched but it fails to keep my interest for long - I love the technicolour vibe and the music is great and I usually love Sarah Paulson - it's just every time I try to watch it I find myself drifting off after a while and not really paying attention to it and then half an episode has passed me by and I don't know what is going on!

Is it worth me starting from the beginning and trying to concentrate on it?

It's okay and watchable, but not amazing or great. Things do happen but the pace is never there.

 

[spanglechick]

I keep trying to watch Ratched but it fails to keep my interest for long - I love the technicolour vibe and the music is great and I usually love Sarah Paulson - it's just every time I try to watch it I find myself drifting off after a while and not really paying attention to it and then half an episode has passed me by and I don't know what is going on!

Is it worth me starting from the beginning and trying to concentrate on it?

It’s all very mid-quality AHS. It’s a love poem to Vertigo, aesthetically, but it doesn’t work as a prequel to cuckoo’s nest at all.

 

[Epona]

It’s all very mid-quality AHS. It’s a love poem to Vertigo, aesthetically, but it doesn’t work as a prequel to cuckoo’s nest at all.

Yes, the word "Hitchcockian" floated through my brain within the first few minutes and I thought therefore I might like it, but try as I might, although I enjoy looking at it and listening to it as an aesthetically pleasing thing that is to my taste, I just can't seem to concentrate on the actual plot

 

[kittyP]

It’s all very mid-quality AHS. It’s a love poem to Vertigo, aesthetically, but it doesn’t work as a prequel to cuckoo’s nest at all.

Yes exactly.
I loved it as its stylistically interesting and beautiful but it feels a million miles away from Cuckoo's Nest

 

[T & P]

Season 2 of Lock and Key has dropped.

 

[Epona]

Season 2 of Lock and Key has dropped.

Should I give season 1 another go? I am not sure how far I got, what's it like? (anything to compare it to? - I have noticed that we often seem to enjoy a lot of the same shows, hence me asking!)

 

[T & P]

Should I give season 1 another go? I am not sure how far I got, what's it like? (anything to compare it to? - I have noticed that we often seem to enjoy a lot of the same shows, hence me asking!)

It’s a fantasy series with a vibe and look not a million miles away from Stanger Things. Not as good, but if you like that type of fantasy genre, still pretty watchable. Interesting concept at any rate.

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Dunno what bits you feel were mawkish? I love seeing people talk about psychedelic therapy like they've made a proper breakthrough.

The powerful content spoke for itself, it didn’t need sentimentality turned up to 11. Paul Stamet is great and has done some amazing work but there’s no need to over egg the pudding.

 

[nagapie]

Watched a British film called Surge last night about a man descending into a psychotic episode. Excellent.

 

[Part 2]

Watched a British film called Surge last night about a man descending into a psychotic episode. Excellent.

Wow that was intense. Brilliant performance by Ben Whishaw.

 

[T & P]

S2 of Locke & Key as good as previous, half way through at least.

 

[Aladdin]

S2 of Locke & Key as good as previous, half way through at least.

Finished season 2 ... very enjoyable

 

[1927]

Has anyone watched Big Boys gone bananas yet? about Dole's attempts to sue a swedish documentary maker for a film he made about their treatment of workers in Nicaragua. Really enjoyed it, think it would go down well with the Urban audience.

 

[Epona]

It’s a fantasy series with a vibe and look not a million miles away from Stanger Things. Not as good, but if you like that type of fantasy genre, still pretty watchable. Interesting concept at any rate.

Thanks, I watched 7 episodes of season 1 pretty much in 1 go, nice enjoyable suitable for teen/family fantasy fare with an engaging story - will watch the rest over the next couple of days!

 

[rubbershoes]

The Guilty.

The real guilty are anyone involved in making this pile of shit

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The Guilty.

The real guilty are anyone involved in making this pile of shit

The Danish version is great.

 

[rubbershoes]

The Danish version is great.

I'll look out for that

 

[ChrisD]

We needed something light ...enjoyed "stuck together" a covid comedy set on some Paris flats. Have been watching lots of French language stuff to make up for lack of holiday opportunities. If you can forgive the stereotype characters it's quite amusing and atmospheric portrait of continental flats with a concierge.

 

[spanglechick]

I just watched a double bill of Midsommar followed by Hereditary- both for the first time. And…

Is [writer and director] Ari Aster ok?


Like. With women. And sisters. And women. And naked older people. And women?

 

[T & P]

I just watched a double bill of Midsommar followed by Hereditary- both for the first time. And…

Is [writer and director] Ari Aster ok?


Like. With women. And sisters. And women. And naked older people. And women?

I didn’t think of any undue weirdness in Hereditary. A really good, proper supernatural horror film.

I seem to be in the minority around here but whereas I wouldn’t say Midsommer was a bad film, it was certainly, er, unconventional. And imo far closer to a satire than a horror film, if not an actual practical joke on audiences, like some people say Mars Attacks was.

Having said all of that, I didn’t think of any of the stuff in either film as having a bias whether conscious or unconscious towards women.