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EltonJohn69 · 14-06-2021 3:00pm

Broad city is great !!! I think it’s underrated/under seen over here

Full_Circle_81 · 17-06-2021 4:19pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Broad city is great !!! I think it’s underrated/under seen over here

I watched it when it aired on Comedy Central. It was very hit and miss across the seasons though. Some of it was genius and had me in stiches, other parts left me scratching my head a bit....

S.M.B. · 17-06-2021 4:45pm

I stopped watching with a season and a half left during it's original airing probably for the reasons outlined above. I should really revisit the final few episodes.

Wrongway1985 · 18-06-2021 12:30pm

Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

16 Blocks (Willis)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Agent of Influence (C.Plummer)
An American Werewolf in Paris
Avenging Angelo (Stallone)
Blitz (Statham/Considine)
Body of Lies
Boy (Waititi)
Chef
Dahmer (Renner)
Django, Prepare a Coffin
Eddie Griffin: You Can Tell 'Em I Said It!
The Escape (Arterton/D.Cooper)
The Ex
Goats
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Hangmen Also Die!
Homicide (Mantegna/W.H.Macy)
Kung Fu Jungle
Last Action Hero
The Last Frontier (Original Title: Подольские курсанты)
The Longest Week
Love, Rosie (L.Collins/Claflin)
Man About Town
The Messenger (B.Foster/Harrelson)
Neon Flesh (Original Title: Carne de neón)
Nora (E.McGregor)
Nowhere Boy
Our Friend (Segel/D.Johnson/C.Affleck)
Priest of Love (McKellan)
Private Property
Pursued
Ratchet & Clank
The Resident
The Rolling Stones: From The Vault - Live In Leeds 1982
The Rolling Stones: From The Vault – Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990
The Rolling Stones: From The Vault - No Security – San Jose ’99
The Rolling Stones: From The Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
The Secret of My Success (M.J.Fox)
Shade
Sharing the Secret
Sisters of War (Snook/Van der Boom)
Smart People
Storks
Swimming with Sharks (Spacey/Forbes/Del Toro）
The Truth About Love
Unforgivable
Welcome to Marwen (S.Carell)
Welcome to Me
World's Greatest Dad

Clarkson's Farm (Amazon Original)(2021)
Chivas: El Rebaño Sagrado (Amazon Original)(2021)
Great British Theatre (Amazon Original)(2021)(5 episodes including Ian McKellan on stage,Fleabag & Hamlet)
Lexx (Season 1-3)
Some Girls (Season 1-3)

Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

Wonder - 25/6
Red Riding Hood - 26/6
Real Steel - 27/6
Creed,Creed II - 28/6
This Means War - 28/6
Heathers - 29/6
Widows - 29/6
Dunkirk - 30/6

Informer - 26/6

pixelburp · 18-06-2021 12:39pm

Mos Def's performance Will divide, but 16 Blocks was the closest we got to a "proper", back to basics Die Hard movie IMO, starting Bruce Willis n all (playing slightly older as greying, saggy cop). Very tightly constrained, low stakes and uses the premise well.

CiaranW · 18-06-2021 12:54pm

Started Clarkson's Farm the other day and it's surprisingly very watchable! Quite funny too.

IrishHusk · 18-06-2021 9:42pm

CiaranW wrote:

Started Clarkson's Farm the other day and it's surprisingly very watchable! Quite funny too.

Have to agree. Some funny moments in it. The scenes with Gerald are quite funny.

Brackwom · 19-06-2021 6:00am

I recommend High Life on Amazon Prime.

cdgalwegian · 19-06-2021 9:01am

pixelburp wrote: »

Mos Def's performance Will divide, but 16 Blocks was the closest we got to a "proper", back to basics Die Hard movie IMO, starting Bruce Willis n all (playing slightly older as greying, saggy cop). Very tightly constrained, low stakes and uses the premise well.

If Die Hard is a reference point, then 16 Blocks is a laggard; serviceable, with nothing memorable in it. Re Mos Def, I'd mos def be on the "I've never heard his music, but it's gotta be better than his monotone mumble-acting" side of the diivide.

pixelburp · 19-06-2021 9:10am

cdgalwegian wrote: »

If Die Hard is a reference point, then 16 Blocks is a laggard; serviceable, with nothing memorable in it. Re Mos Def, I'd mos def be in the "I've never heard his music, but it's gotta be better than his monotone mumble-acting" diivide.

I mentioned it more because it better took the low stakes, confined-locale premise of Die Hard than the 4th and 5th films of the actual franchise. Those went big, McClane turning into a superhero, when they should have stayed small, let McClane stay a cop.

No, it's not an especially memorable film beyond that, and wouldn't wax lyrical at all - but it understood how to mine a tense narrative out of something as simple as "travel 16 Blocks of NY", than the kind of executive driven "uh, Dir Hard goes to Russia. More explosions! Jai Courtnay must happen!" crap that drove the progenitor off a cliff.

So I'd recommend it more as a comparison piece than some hidden classic. It's not the latter at all.

Wrongway1985 · 21-06-2021 2:29pm

Both Under Siege films still on Prime,Die Hard on a ship and on a train. The first pretty great of that vein the second not so much but watchable nonsense nonetheless and also better than the later Die Hards imo despite the dated "technology".

RandomViewer · 21-06-2021 11:53pm

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Both Under Siege films still on Prime,Die Hard on a ship and on a train. The first pretty great of that vein the second not so much but watchable nonsense nonetheless and also better than the later Die Hards imo despite the dated "technology".

Seagal gets less screen time than Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey in the first one, keeping his time minimal seems to be the trick as they kill him off early in Executive Decision

RandomViewer · 21-06-2021 11:55pm

pixelburp wrote: »

I mentioned it more because it better took the low stakes, confined-locale premise of Die Hard than the 4th and 5th films of the actual franchise. Those went big, McClane turning into a superhero, when they should have stayed small, let McClane stay a cop.

No, it's not an especially memorable film beyond that, and wouldn't wax lyrical at all - but it understood how to mine a tense narrative out of something as simple as "travel 16 Blocks of NY", than the kind of executive driven "uh, Dir Hard goes to Russia. More explosions! Jai Courtnay must happen!" crap that drove the progenitor off a cliff.

So I'd recommend it more as a comparison piece than some hidden classic. It's not the latter at all.

The Last Boy Scout is often overlooked

Charlie19 · 22-06-2021 12:01am

Scouts Guide to Zombie Apocalypse.. is great craic.

EltonJohn69 · 22-06-2021 8:07am

RandomViewer wrote: »

The Last Boy Scout is often overlooked

I would never overlook it.

Wrongway1985 · 25-06-2021 4:00pm

Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

The Best of Men
Cold Deck
Crimes of Passion
Digging to China (E.R.Wood/Bacon)
A Dog's Way Home (A.Judd)
Dumb and Dumber
Johnny Mnemonic
Hidden Agenda (McDormand/B.Cox)
The Ice Road (Nesson/Fishburne)(Amazon Original)(2021)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jupiter Ascending
Little Men
Mary J Blige's My Life (Amazon Original)(2021)
McLintock! (J.Wayne)
New York, I Love You
Out of Sight
Reality Bites (W.Ryder/E.Hawke)
Shuffle
The Town

Bosch (Season 7)(Amazon Original)(2021)
The Greatest American Hero (Season 1-3)
Prime Day Show (Presented by Amazon Music - H.E.R./Kid Cudi/Billie Eilish)

Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

The American President - 1/7
The Italian Job (Caine) - 2/7
Shutter Island - 2/7
American Hustle - 4/7
How to Lose a guy in 10 Days - 4/7

Charlie19 wrote: »

Scouts Guide to Zombie Apocalypse.. is great craic.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalyse - 5/7
Vanilla Sky - 5/7
Monster-in-Law - 7/7

Charlie19 · 25-06-2021 11:57pm

If you've not seen it already then make time to watch The Professor staring Johnny Depp.

VonLuck · 26-06-2021 1:04pm

Watched Sound of Metal last night. Very good, although I feel that the movie title and premise may turn a lot of people off from watching it. I can tell you that it doesn't matter what your taste in music is, even if you hate metal, you will still enjoy this movie.

gmisk · 26-06-2021 4:15pm

The ice road

I am fan of big Liam Neeson...like most of the geriaction stuff.....but this is awful....I gave up after 25 minutes...plot is a mish mash of nonsense...the special effects are awful, not sure what the budget was....I wouldn't bother

EltonJohn69 · 26-06-2021 4:27pm

gmisk wrote: »

The ice road

I am fan of big Liam Neeson...like most of the geriaction stuff.....but this is awful....I gave up after 25 minutes...plot is a mish mash of nonsense...the special effects are awful, not sure what the budget was....I wouldn't bother

Wrong. This movie is a masterpiece.

gmisk · 26-06-2021 4:43pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Wrong. This movie is a masterpiece.

...are you being sarcastic?
Where to start with this dire film....
The first crappy CGI explosion looked like something from a syfy channel film.....then it went downhill from there.
Every character is paper thin, the entire film is just cliche after cliche.

You would be far better of watching wages of fear or sorcerer

adox · 26-06-2021 4:45pm

VonLuck wrote: »

Watched Sound of Metal last night. Very good, although I feel that the movie title and premise may turn a lot of people off from watching it. I can tell you that it doesn't matter what your taste in music is, even if you hate metal, you will still enjoy this movie.

The title had more than one meaning and what I took away from it was it wasn’t referring to the music

EltonJohn69 · 26-06-2021 9:16pm

gmisk wrote: »

...are you being sarcastic?
Where to start with this dire film....
The first crappy CGI explosion looked like something from a syfy channel film.....then it went downhill from there.
Every character is paper thin, the entire film is just cliche after cliche.

You would be far better of watching wages of fear or sorcerer

My apologies I was think of the Liam neeson movie cold pursuit which is excellent. And I agree sorcerer is a very good watch.

gmisk · 26-06-2021 9:40pm

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

My apologies I was think of the Liam neeson movie cold pursuit which is excellent. And I agree sorcerer is a very good watch.

Ah that makes more sense...no worries.
Cold pursuit was really good, underrated imo.

whatever76 · 27-06-2021 10:23pm

Watched Our Friend last night - lots of tears so not really uplifting or light heared to watch in current times ! Good film though.

ShamoBuc · 27-06-2021 10:35pm

Clarkson's Farm, I found it thoroughly enjoyable.

I like Jeremy anyway but no interest in farming, but I found it very good, with the added characters especially. Really interesting view of how life on a big farm is too.

When I hear farmers complaining about the weather, I have a bit of an insight now as to why.

higster · 27-06-2021 10:47pm

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Clarkson's Farm, I found it thoroughly enjoyable.

I like Jeremy anyway but no interest in farming, but I found it very good, with the added characters especially. Really interesting view of how life on a big farm is too.

When I hear farmers complaining about the weather, I have a bit of an insight now as to why.

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Had “gone off” Clarkson and gave up on Top Gear back when was on BBC never mind new version on Amazon. I do have farming background (nowhere near the size of what he is “farming”) and find it quite funny and like you said the characters are excellent. The “big tractor” in itself is good and the rams/sheep’s scenes with the vet and others is quite good…”you need a shepherd”
Saying that must be spending a fortune in help for the farming, no way making money on it.

VonLuck · 28-06-2021 8:24am

adox wrote: »

The title had more than one meaning and what I took away from it was it wasn’t referring to the music

Oh yeah that's clear after watching the movie, but someone who was just judging whether to watch it based off the title and plot summary might think it's all about heavy metal music, which it's not at all.

The Raging Bile Duct · 28-06-2021 9:37am

VonLuck wrote: »

Oh yeah that's clear after watching the movie, but someone who was just judging whether to watch it based off the title and plot summary might think it's all about heavy metal music, which it's not at all.

Aye, it was a hard sell for the wife when I told her the name of the film. I had to give a synopsis of the film and convince her heavy metal wasn't going to be the major theme of the movie.

killbillvol2 · 28-06-2021 10:26am

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

Aye, it was a hard sell for the wife when I told her the name of the film. I had to give a synopsis of the film and convince her heavy metal wasn't going to be the major theme of the movie.

I remember years ago meeting my boss and his wife on their way to the Savoy for a romantic night at the pictures. I hadn't the heart to tell them that True Romance wasn't going to be quite what they expected!

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