Film and TV Thread Recommendations

Oh, it's unusually busy on here. I can't be bothered to quote people, I'm sure you can work out who I'm replying to....

The first contestant went for.....Africa. The second one had a whole round of hearing other people going for Spain, China, Brazil, whatever and having had several minutes to think of any country in the World with a border went for.....'The UK?'. Amazing.

What annoys me about Pointless is how rather than just say "this is the last in the current series we're back in the autumn" or whatever they just switch from new episodes to repeats without any warning and deliberately chose a repeat where the jackpot is the same amount hoping to get away with people not realising it's now repeats. Trying to fool their own viewers. Pathetic.

I've seen 'Before I Go to Sleep' and '71. Both decent. I know The Wanderers is a cult classic and it's the kind of film I'd normally have seen but I never have. I'll add it to the list. I've got series one of Succession waiting too.

I'm not seen many films lately and I've got a big backlog to get through. Will report back all the old shit I've watched and not enjoyed..... 

I saw a good documentary earlier called Made You Look about art fraud on Netflix - really worth a watch I won’t spoil it

I don't know what either of those words mean. I'm going to assume it's some kind of flamboyant hat.

Rather undermining my earlier stance on sequels I feel I should confess I once paid to see Police Academy 6 at the cinema. I'd say the Police Academy films were significant enough to merit a mention in the comedy segment of an 80s film countdown but basically they were all rubbish.

Right, I've seen.......

A Quiet Place -  A family have to live without making a sound while hiding from blind but very noise sensitive monsters in unusually quiet thriller/horror type thing. I found this a bit of a frustrating watch as I had quite a few questions about this scenario which went largely unanswered. Although the tension/thriller parts were all pretty well done. Bonus quarter for a little easy to miss shot where you get a glimpse of the shelves in a deserted shop and all the crisps have been left. 6.75/10 

Scarborough - A teenage girl with an older man and teenage boy and older woman check in to the same hotel and the action switches between the two couples in fairly dull British student teacher affair based drama. It's fine I suppose but it's hard to really care much about what's going on, it would help if anyone, especially the blokes, was a bit more interesting or likable. I'll go 5/10

Open Windows - Increasingly tedious internet based thriller. Frodo Baggins wins a date with Sasha Grey, she cancels, then some guy phones him up and lures him into doing some stuff on his laptop, some hackers appear from nowhere, some other shit happens, and things get increasingly sinister. To be honest I didn't fully know what was going on for quite a lot of this, but I'm not sure anyone involved did either. It's mostly seen on a laptop screen or security cameras which  adds a slightly annoying gimmick to a confusing, pointless and increasingly unbelievable story. 3/10

i saw one of those. I think the Botox has been overdone to the extent that not only does her face not work, she can no longer sit up in the chair.

Back to the telly, Hit and Run. Israeli tour guide’s American Wife, killed in a hit and run accident. Funnily enough it’s not that simple. Haven’t finished it yet but a tidy 7.5 so far.

Just watching a film called The Railway Man with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. You can rent it on sky for 2 quid. Very good film about japanese POW camp - 9/10

I remember really loving Police Academy 5 when i was a kid. It was my fave of the series, although i couldn't tell you why now I occasionally consider watching them all again but never quite get bored enough to do it

Anna - Another Luc Besson unstoppable super hot girl story. This one is an unstoppable super hot girl recruited by the KGB to do unstoppable super hot girl assassination stuff for them, but she inevitably tires of it and wants out. I actually quite liked this, it's highly unoriginal of course, but what the hell. Some fun scenes, action and an unstoppable super hot girl. 7/10

The New Mutants - An X-men story, but one that doesn't have any of the characters from the big blockbuster films. Some teens with special powers are being kept in an enclosed complex supposedly until they learn to control their powers but when a new girl arrives and weird stuff starts happening they start to think something else is going on. The IMDB rating for this is really low but I really enjoyed it and after reading some of the reviews it seems it's low because it apparently doesn't follow the comics and people threw hissy fits about it which always makes me laugh I generally like stories of people with powers and this one different to the big blockbusters. 7/10

This is sort of an "un-recommendation" but don't watch the adverts, it's only 1st October and they're already showing Christmas ads.

I love Christmas, I really do, but October is just too soon to be getting in the festive spirit.

Nobody watches live tv anymore do they? I haven't really seen any adverts since about 1992. Apart from the ones on Sky Sports, and they consist entirely of bookmakers, erectile dysfunction, and hair loss. And I'm only really interested in two of those.... 

Right, I've seen..

Promising Young Woman - A young woman seeks vengeance against those responsible for a tragic event from her past in blackly comic thriller drama type thing. Liked that. 7.5/10

The Signal - Three friends on a long road trip try to track down a mysterious hacker, then things get weird in sci-fi mystery drama thriller type thing. The more sci-fi thrillery it got the less interested I became. It's not for me. I'll go 5/10

Make Up - A teenage girl grows increasingly suspicious while staying with her boyfriend at a caravan park in British drama psychological thriller type thing. I's very slow but I liked it 6.5/10

In terms of series in my view Gomorrah which is on Sky Atlantic is a different level. 

Naples drugs wars. Genuinely edge of your seat stuff.

I would have it as my favourite series/box set of all time. Even puts the Sopranos in the shade.

Can't recommend it enough.

www.imdb.com/title/tt2049116/