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OleRodrigo · 17-06-2019 12:19PM

Black Earth Rising - fantastic drama about the Rwandan Genocide, the establishment of the ICC and the following mineral conflicts in the Congo. Great performances by Mikaela Cole and John Goodman although a bit heavy on exposition at times.

kunst nugget · 17-06-2019 01:16PM

See You Yesterday. I really enjoyed it up until the very abrupt end. It's a pity because it was an interesting take on the time travel movie which a script that really had my interest and then... nothing.

Agent Coulson · 17-06-2019 01:25PM

This is one for the diary

Criminal Nicholas Pinnock, David Tennant & Hayley Atwell Star In Netflix Police Interrogation Drama

Nicholas Pinnock, star of ABC’s forthcoming legal drama For Life, Doctor Who’s David Tennant and Agent Carter’s Hayley Atwell are to star in Netflix’s police interrogation drama Criminal.

The format bending series consists of 12 episodes of 45 minutes with three episodes each set across four countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK. The drama takes place exclusively within the confines of a police interview suite. It is a stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama that will focus on the intense mental conflict between the police officer and the suspect in question.

Pinnock, Cheat’s Katherine Kelly Lee Ingleby, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall and Shubham Saraf star in the UK episodes with Tennant and Atwell guest starring alongside Youssef Kerkour, and Clare-Hope A****ey.

https://deadline.com/2019/06/netflix-criminal-nicholas-pinnock-hayley-atwell-david-tennant-1202633443/?fbclid=IwAR3VHJDABuAswKJmcW9jLRj0bIBdAxavrn_uI-GpCfxuzjBmTyIowEIdRS4

Daz_ · 17-06-2019 01:44PM

When they see us

A true story . A must watch in my opinion .

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 17-06-2019 02:10PM

OleRodrigo wrote: »

Black Earth Rising - fantastic drama about the Rwandan Genocide, the establishment of the ICC and the following mineral conflicts in the Congo. Great performances by Mikaela Cole and John Goodman although a bit heavy on exposition at times.

Glad to see this on Netflix. I was really looking forward to seeing it on BBC a while back but it seemed to come and go without any promotion and I missed it entirely!

Gloomtastic! · 17-06-2019 02:38PM

Daz_ wrote: »

When they see us

A true story . A must watch in my opinion .

Still trying to figure out why they gave it that title........

Gadgetman496 · 17-06-2019 02:46PM

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Still trying to figure out why they gave it that title........

Maybe it was a reference to the viewers?

"When they see us" they will know.

peteeeed · 17-06-2019 04:19PM

I thought it was ' when they see us ' this is what they think
Like when the kids said they were ' willin out ' (hanging out ) but the cops heard and ran with wilding out and it was a headline in the tabloids with terms like a wolf pack to describe them was used and what trump thought of them

budgemook · 17-06-2019 04:20PM

Watched Snowpiercer there yesterday. Pretty good movie, it's quite different and you really get the sense of being on a train - reading about how they made afterwards explains how they achieved that.

Good action without being too OTT, good story and good performances from the cast. Solid 7/10.

OleRodrigo · 17-06-2019 04:54PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Glad to see this on Netflix. I was really looking forward to seeing it on BBC a while back but it seemed to come and go without any promotion and I missed it entirely!

Yeah same, and it was delayed on its Irish Netflix release too, for some reason. It seems there was a lot of enthusiasm to make it, to tell the story of what happened.

For further reading on the subject, I'd highly recommend ' We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families ' Link and ' Machete Season ' Link

Although they only deal with the civil war and genocide rather than the subsequent Congo wars. Incredible story and very hard going at times. Western media seemed pay little attention to it.

cdgalwegian · 17-06-2019 05:06PM

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

"A Royal Affair". About the rise and fall of the 18th century Danish royal favourite Johann Friedrich Struensee. A bit like a cross between "The Madness of King George" and "The Duchess", except it's Danish.

Although costume dramas wouldn't be my thing, I had to watch this because Mikelsen and Vikander were both in it together. Both were excellent, though the chemistry between them could have done with an enzyme.
For costume-dramaphiles, this is a familiar history of the machinations of monarchy- and the seeds of their demise- expertly brought to life.

Charlie19 · 17-06-2019 08:01PM

Daz_ wrote: »

When they see us

A true story . A must watch in my opinion .

The Oprah interview with cast along with the five lads is well worth a watch.

Daz_ · 17-06-2019 09:47PM

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Still trying to figure out why they gave it that title........

Could have called anything , it’s heartbreaking stuff though

shamrock55 · 17-06-2019 09:50PM

Started when they see us 1st episode but had to stop because it genuinely made my blood boil the way the cops treated those kids, looked good otherwise but I don't think I could watch anymore

Mam of 4 · 17-06-2019 11:40PM

Charlie19 wrote: »

The Oprah interview with cast along with the five lads is well worth a watch.

Just after watching it .
Your heart would go out to these men , listening to their words , and their obvious distress at times is gut wrenching .

km79 · 17-06-2019 11:47PM

shamrock55 wrote: »

Started when they see us 1st episode but had to stop because it genuinely made my blood boil the way the cops treated those kids, looked good otherwise but I don't think I could watch anymore

It’s a good job you stopped so
Episode 4

Tony EH · 18-06-2019 12:01AM

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Still trying to figure out why they gave it that title........

Because they felt that the "Central Park Five" was too incriminating as it was a name given to the boys by the media who had all capitalised on their "guilt".

darced · 18-06-2019 02:16AM

Did some of those lads not beat the heads of a few other joggers in the park that night? They went in there with weapons looking to cause trouble as far as I remember. They didn't rape anyone but were pretty thuggish it seems. Good show though, worth a watch although I did get confused as to who was who when it switched to their older selves.

Purgative · 18-06-2019 05:54AM

Enjoyed the Siege at Jadotville

LaChatteGitane · 18-06-2019 06:47AM

darced wrote: »

Did some of those lads not beat the heads of a few other joggers in the park that night? They went in there with weapons looking to cause trouble as far as I remember. They didn't rape anyone but were pretty thuggish it seems. Good show though, worth a watch although I did get confused as to who was who when it switched to their older selves.

Not as far as I could make out from the series.

peteeeed · 18-06-2019 07:02AM

Glow season 3 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQaCxIJX0J0

peteeeed · 18-06-2019 07:03AM

Adam Devine: Best Time of Our Lives
Frenetic comic Adam Devine talks teen awkwardness, celebrity encounters, his "Pitch Perfect" audition and more in a special from his hometown of Omaha.

Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers
Decades ago, Bob Lazar blew the whistle on Area 51. Now he's back to explain the alien tech he worked with, and the government's war to shut him up

The Terminator (1984)

added today

CrankyHaus · 18-06-2019 08:11AM

darced wrote: »

Did some of those lads not beat the heads of a few other joggers in the park that night? They went in there with weapons looking to cause trouble as far as I remember. They didn't rape anyone but were pretty thuggish it seems. Good show though, worth a watch although I did get confused as to who was who when it switched to their older selves.

Yeah it's a very contentious case. I've heard wildly different accounts. The accused seemed like no angels but the police and prosecution seem to have cut corners for wrongful convictions. DuVernay is far from a balanced voice and better at generating heat than light to illuminate such a contested subject. I'd probably check out the Ken Burns Doc from 2012 first to get a more factual view.

kunst nugget · 18-06-2019 09:31AM

darced wrote: »

Did some of those lads not beat the heads of a few other joggers in the park that night? They went in there with weapons looking to cause trouble as far as I remember. They didn't rape anyone but were pretty thuggish it seems. Good show though, worth a watch although I did get confused as to who was who when it switched to their older selves.

As far as I can make out, some were arrested on suspicion of being part of a larger group of youths that were hanging out in the park that night causing problems. I can't tell if any of them had any part of any actual misdemeanours that night from what I've read online. Even if they were acting the mick, it doesn't excuse what subsequently happened to them.

It seems like they were caught in the crossfire of a flare-up of racial tensions in the city. This a decent enough overview of what was happening at the time.

https://grist.org/cities/how-our-fear-of-wilding-colored-the-central-park-five-case/

In our talk, Cobb recalled the simmering racial tensions he experienced living in New York City in the late 1980s, when two notable killings of black men shook the city — Yusuf Hawkins, 16, shot dead while beaten by a gang of Italian teens in Bensonhurst, and Michael Griffith, 23, killed while fleeing Howard Beach when a mob of white teens attacked him. These incidents and accompanying spouts of police brutality inflamed racial tensions, as captured for the nation in Public Enemy’s songs like “Welcome to the Terrordome” and cinematically in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.

The media’s application of the term “wilding” for the black youth was like “a finger people used to point to the sum of everything that was going on with race (in New York City) at the time,” said Cobb. “With the Central Park case, it was hard to escape the racial conflagrations happening prior to this (Hawkins, Griffith) and so this just became the counterpoint. We had black people talking about being the victims of police brutality, but this became the case people pointed to to say, ‘Well, look how they’re acting.’”

SusieBlue · 18-06-2019 09:48AM

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Just after watching it .
Your heart would go out to these men , listening to their words , and their obvious distress at times is gut wrenching .

Poor Korey still isn't right all these years later. He's like someone with PTSD afraid to open his mouth for fear of getting a slap.

Fysh · 18-06-2019 10:07AM

I watched It Comes At Night last night and it was really good - solid performances all round and a really well-written, tightly focused script that doesn't outstay its welcome.

marklazarcovic · 18-06-2019 12:11PM

SusieBlue wrote: »

Poor Korey still isn't right all these years later. He's like someone with PTSD afraid to open his mouth for fear of getting a slap.

He came out the worst, wasn't even in the park,went to support his mate at the police station, she should have served time for what they did to him alone

camz09 · 18-06-2019 12:18PM

As someone who has seen the Central Park Five documentary back in 2012, which I thought was very well made, thorough and gripping, I feel like I'd have to be in a real specific mood to want to revisit the story again. It's a dramatisation as well and I couldn't finish the first episode for some reason, maybe because the facts have already been ingrained in my brain (and the anger that comes with it) that it seemed slow for some reason. Maybe, someday.

The performances are great, and from reading the reviews they are lauded, esp. Jharrel Jerome who really should be getting these great parts after Moonlight.. really good to see.

Currently watching The Alcasser Murders, never heard of this case and so far, its been really heartbreaking and interesting, really trying my hardest not to Google anything and just go with it.

km79 · 18-06-2019 12:24PM

The second half of the Oprah special was emotional
Korey is very damaged. In many ways he still seems like a teenager
Antron has HUGE issues. Hope he sees someone soon to try and work through them
Sad

Gadgetman496 · 18-06-2019 01:56PM

km79 wrote: »

The second half of the Oprah special was emotional
Korey is very damaged. In many ways he still seems like a teenager
Antron has HUGE issues. Hope he sees someone soon to try and work through them
Sad

What is that special called?

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