Film and TV review.

boltonbonce wrote:Anyone remember The Larry Sanders Show? It was always a favourite of mine back in the day, but it's been years since I've seen an episode, so I decided to buy the first season on Prime, and I have to say, it's aged well. Plenty of laughs.
Looks like I'll be buying all six seasons.

Norpig wrote:Just finished watching Mr Inbetween and it was brilliant! If you have Disney plus then i would recommend you binge watch it.

Its about an Australian criminal and his life and is one of the best series i have watched in a long time.

Sluffy wrote:I've watched two films recently, one won the prestigious 2022 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a whole host of other awards and the other was a massive financial flop at the box office having cost $9.8m to make and got back next to nothing - and guess which one I liked!

The big winner was 'Triangle of Sadness, that was total bollocks.

I kept sticking with it thinking it most get better soon, it won all these awards after all - but was utter gash.

I don't recomended it at all.

The other however was brilliant - Margrete: Queen of the North.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023sy4/margrete-queen-of-the-north


Ok, I don't expect anyone to watch it - it's a Danish film with sub-titles after all - but it was as good as a Shakespeare historical play, but with language you could easily understand (well sub-titles are in plain words and not 'flowery' Tudor English) and is a brilliant example of the second rule of politics - do whatever you have to, to keep power.

There's twists and turns, murder and betrayals all through the film and probably the best film I've seen this year.

I do hope some of you do give it a try - and hopefully like it.

karlypants wrote:The Mrs uses subtitles on certain dramas as she struggles with slang words and certain accents but it's bloody annoying when watching the same program as you end up reading the subtitles on the screen and then missing out with whats going on in the picture.

I may as well just read a book with my imagination.

Sluffy wrote:I've watched two films recently, one won the prestigious 2022 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a whole host of other awards and the other was a massive financial flop at the box office having cost $9.8m to make and got back next to nothing - and guess which one I liked!

The big winner was 'Triangle of Sadness, that was total bollocks.

I kept sticking with it thinking it most get better soon, it won all these awards after all - but was utter gash.

I don't recomended it at all.

The other however was brilliant - Margrete: Queen of the North.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0023sy4/margrete-queen-of-the-north


Ok, I don't expect anyone to watch it - it's a Danish film with sub-titles after all - but it was as good as a Shakespeare historical play, but with language you could easily understand (well sub-titles are in plain words and not 'flowery' Tudor English) and is a brilliant example of the second rule of politics - do whatever you have to, to keep power.

There's twists and turns, murder and betrayals all through the film and probably the best film I've seen this year.

I do hope some of you do give it a try - and hopefully like it.

Sluffy wrote:Well I must say I'm impressed with all your intent to give my film recommendation a try - I hope you actually do and enjoy it as much as I did.

And to show how eclectic (deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources) my likes are, the best film I saw last year was probably is Paddington 2.

Ok, one for the little kids you may say but it is co-written by Simon Farnaby, who is one of the group of writers that wrote the Ghosts series that I thought was brilliant.

If you've not see it I highly recommend that you find a few hours over Christmas to watch the initial Paddington film (which is very good itself) which leads you into Paddington 2.

And if you like that, then treat yourself to Ghosts - you won't regret it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0012w6j/paddington

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000csnj/paddington-2


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00049t9/ghosts


Enjoy!