Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

New show based in Ireland

Based on a true story*

*Overheard in a pub

That's as Irish as you will get so they nailed it.

Lastnight, I watched "No Escape", starring Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan. I must say it's one of the best things I've seen on Netflix in some time. I think it was originally released in 2015 but it must have been with little fanfare because I never heard of it till now.

Anyway, highly recommend it. It's a good old fashioned edge of the seat thriller. It's actually quite relentless in its pacing from start to finish. Wilson is very good in a role (ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances) that you wouldn't typically see him in.

Same with wild mountain thyme, young ones dressed in shawls when it's supposed to be modern Ireland. Absolute rubbish that movie was, what they had on Walken to partake I'd love to know.

Walken is the only one involved in that that can be forgiven - maybe he knows next to nothing about Ireland. Maybe it was just a paycheck.

It is everybody else that should questioned, especially Blunt and Dornan.

I watched this last week. I had never heard of it either. Simple enough storyline, but it's oh so tense.

I recently watched another thriller of Owen Wilson a few weeks ago. It's a bit of an oldie - film made over 20 years ago. It's called Behind Enemy Lines. If you liked No Escape, you'd like this one too. Similar enough story line.

Directed by a Dundalk man, he also went on to direct The Omen remake and Die Hard 5.

Scoop is a new film on Netflix its a whole pile of nothing dont waste your time.

Ripley is aesthetically pleasing black & white film noir. Scott is a very menacing Ripley worth a look but slow. Italy 1960's is very well done