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What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

I've started watching the first season of Game of Thrones, 2 episodes in and not really impressed yet - may ditch it.

Watching Life on Mars again - still great (won't be watching Ashes).

Not really a lot good out just now. :(
 
Goya's Ghosts that was on Film Four a bit back. Not bad, nothing amazing but one or two good scenes. Yer psycho bloke from No Country For Old Men was good in it, Natalie Portman not so much. Some interesting stuff about the Spanish Inquisition that I didn't know. Obviously I'm now forcing myself not to say 'no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition' but failing.
 
The Spongers. Not sure how well known this play for today episode is, although I'm certain some here will know it. My mate was recommending I watch it.

Written by Jim Allen, set in Jubilee year it follows a woman and her four children. Life on a Manchester estate with the bailiffs on her back, council cuts meaning her daughter with downes syndrome is moved to inappropriate accommodation and life on benefits facing a system that refuses to help her out of her difficult situation.

It's brilliant, and utterly devastating. What happened to TV like this?
 
Too Big To Fail (2011) - another film about the 2008 financial crash centering on Henry Paulson's (William Hurt) role trying to get a buyer for Lehman Bothers when they realized it was in the shit and then trying to pass the subsequent bailout bill through congress. Not as stylish or tense as Margin Call this is more like a dramatization of the "Inside Job" documentary. It's a bit hard to care for Henry Paulson as the main character when you know his history with Goldman Sachs but it did give me the strange feeling of cheering for Alistair Darling (if only on the end of a phone line) telling the yanks to get stuffed if they thought the UK (Barclays) where going to buy their "cancerous" dept crisis.
If you enjoyed Inside Job or Margin Call then this is well worth tracking down.
 
The Spongers. Not sure how well known this play for today episode is, although I'm certain some here will know it. My mate was recommending I watch it.

Written by Jim Allen, set in Jubilee year it follows a woman and her four children. Life on a Manchester estate with the bailiffs on her back, council cuts meaning her daughter with downes syndrome is moved to inappropriate accommodation and life on benefits facing a system that refuses to help her out of her difficult situation.

It's brilliant, and utterly devastating. What happened to TV like this?


What happened to writers like Jim Allen as well. Perdition badly damaged his chances of getting on BBC again. Met him a few times as his daughter was around the SWP in the 1980s.
 
44 Inch Chest yer fackin caaarrrrnt. Was enjoying it until I fell asleep. Have to watch the rest tonight. How many gay gangsters has Lovejoy played now?
 
What happened to writers like Jim Allen as well. Perdition badly damaged his chances of getting on BBC again. Met him a few times as his daughter was around the SWP in the 1980s.

Grace, I still see her occasionally, never realised she was in Spongers when I put it on. Been looking to download Days of Hope but can't seem to find it.
 
The 39 Steps - Hitchcock version. One of Hitchcock's films that I've never got round to watching before. It's good but I still rate The Lady Vanishes as the best of his English films.

One Upon A Time In Anatolia - Stunningly beautiful, especially the bits filmed at night. I think the part of the film set during the night worked best for me from all angles. The ending lost me a bit and I think the film would have worked better without the last 20-30 minutes. Still definitely worth watching.
 
Drive. I liked it. Really beautifully shot & well acted. Think ill get the book.

I really liked it, including the short moments of graphic violence (the motel and elevator scenes), although Gosling's long silences, wry smiles and lingering stares didn't work that well sometimes.
 
Monsters. Entertaining, tho the fact that the disc stuck n skipped in the middle made it a bit confusing (the bit where the passports are nicked).

Eps 6-10 Breaking Bad Season 4. Fucking hell, this is going to end well. And by well, I mean spectacularly, rather than in a positive manner for any of the characters.
 
Last 3 episodes of Breaking Bad season 4.

Holy muthafucka, sonofabitch, and every other rude superlative you can think of. What a goddamned series!!!
 
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The Chaser. Korean film about ex-cop turned pimp who goes looking for one of his girls who's disappeared. Another I found through IMDB comments after I'd watched I Saw the Devil. It's a better film that takes it's time building up to lots of violence. I'd recommend it if you like that kind of stuff.
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Downloaded this after reading that and watched it yesterday. Really enjoyed it so thanks :)
 
Knuckle, documentary on irish travellers fighting each other over 10 years.

Basically loads of blokes giving each other stick via dvd messages then meeting up and punching each other in the face

If you want to see plenty of real bare knuckle fighting this is for you

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606259/
 
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