After reading this post a while back, I recalled that I had an unread copy on my bookshelf. Thanks for this post as it resulted in me starting the book recently and it is amazingly gripping.
NWR What films have you been watching?
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After reading this post a while back, I recalled that I had an unread copy on my bookshelf. Thanks for this post as it resulted in me starting the book recently and it is amazingly gripping.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Gripping indeed and quite sad as his mates start dropping out of the story.
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As there are no good new movies at Apple TV right now, I am watching movies from the 60s and 70s. „Three days of Condor“ with Robert Redfort and Faye Dunaway by Sidney Pollack and „Le Samurai“ with Alain Delon by Melville. GREAT
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For pure entertainment try Bad Times at the El Royale with Jeff Bridges and Jon Hamm. A ‘noir-ish’ thriller set in a motel on the Nevada/California border.
Have also recently enjoyed The Forty Year Old Version on Netflix.
Have also recently enjoyed The Forty Year Old Version on Netflix.
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Got stuck into Roadkill (tv series on BBC with Hugh Laurie). Pretty enjoyable stuff.....
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P.S. It seems I get nostalgic for old films. But I watched also the BBC serie "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier&Spy" with Alec Guiness. Breathtaking good acting and such slow in pace, I love it.
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Martin - I've been meaning to check that out. Loved the film a couple of years ago, but never read the books. Given the weather here is awful now, I think I may have my weekend planned now......
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I recommend "Queen's Gambit" on Netflix. Its about a female chess player in the 60s.
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I watched episode one yesterday evening. It looks interesting.
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I finished the serie yesterday. Great ending.
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It came up on my Netflix landing page today, so may have a look soon.
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Bill Murray gives a great performance in the new Apple+ release.
On the rocks.
The movie itself is only OK but he makes it worthwhile.
On the rocks.
The movie itself is only OK but he makes it worthwhile.
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Doesn't quite count but I've been watching the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, which I last watched when it was new in 1982. It's rather wonderful, let down only by its relentlessly sentimental and turgid musical accompaniment.
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Interesting Thom - I've actually started watching the original - I have never seen it and being a council-estate-trash and filthy scum bag from Grimsby it was never something that spoke to me.
Now that I'm a fake-Southerner and firmly wedged into the middle-classes with children who speak all proper and posh, like, it now takes on an appealing charm.
Now that I'm a fake-Southerner and firmly wedged into the middle-classes with children who speak all proper and posh, like, it now takes on an appealing charm.
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Brideshead Revisited² ?
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Just posted on the "listening to" thread about Springsteen's new album. There is an accompanying documentary on Apple TV - Letter to You - which is a must watch for anyone with a passing interest in how artists like Springsteen and the East Street Band put an album together. These are musicians with such talent and grace with the best part of 50 years experience behind them.
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“Blindspotting” on Netflix. Set in Oakland CA. Darkly comic.
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I saw on a French web site that there’s a big new Zappa docu-film by Alex Winter, Out on 27 Nov and I’m probably not the only one here that this would interest. The director had full support of the family and full access to the archives.
Not sure where one will watch it in these Covid times?
Not sure where one will watch it in these Covid times?
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Unquestionably the most enjoyable and entertaining thing I have watched in years.
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The Queen’s Gambit is outrageously excellent. Cinematography, production design, acting, editing, script, story, pacing, invisible and visible CGI. Just brilliant.
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I Don't Feel at Home in the World Anymore on Netflix. Quirky, funny, clever. The marriage of two quite different genres sits a bit awkwardly at times but the originality of the approach also stops it being too predictable.
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Okay, so everyone on here with kids younger than 16 (maybe 18, maybe older) should watch the Social Dilemma on Netflix. In fact, anyone on here who uses social media should probably watch it. It's not perfect, but it's really frickin' good. Guaranteed it wil open your eyes.
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Best thing I have seen for a while was Get Out, very sinister rather than scary, but also very clever.
Just finished watching Midsommar, which is kind of messed up but has a lot of themes and talking points.
Just finished watching Midsommar, which is kind of messed up but has a lot of themes and talking points.
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Also really enjoyed Queen's Gambit, though I am sure I saw a non relevant piece being moved while a king was in check, in about episode 2... Very stylish and well made. Good acting too. Main actress is British of course - terrible cultural appropriation.
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The famous writer Stephen King posted this on Twitter regarding THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT:
„I have watched a lot of TV during this cursed year--I know I'm not alone--and the best of the best is THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT, on Netflix. Utterly thrilling. I thought nothing would beat THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN, but this does.“
„I have watched a lot of TV during this cursed year--I know I'm not alone--and the best of the best is THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT, on Netflix. Utterly thrilling. I thought nothing would beat THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN, but this does.“