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[Patrick Thistle]

I started The Good Place yesterday. Series 1 is nearly done and it's fantastic.

Ooh the last episode of series 1 is probably one of my favourite sitcom epsiodes ever.

[WOM]

So Reacher is a hilarious load of old cobblers, isn't it? Definitely worth a watch, mind.

Oh, definitely.

[Discordant Resonance]

I love the Big Bang Theory. I think it was the first sitcom I watched from start to finish and actually went out of my way to watch at times.

I'm continuing to go through cases of Crown Court on YouTube, I'm on my second case today and will watch another before I finish work. They really need to bring this programme back - it's fantastic viewing. I can't believe it was hidden away on daytime TV.

A blog giving a case-by-case summary of each episode.

[hobbes]

Aye, re-watched Nimona with the cub recently. It's a great film.
The graphic novel is pretty decent too, according to him.


So Reacher is a hilarious load of old cobblers, isn't it? Definitely worth a watch, mind.

[Levin]

Nimona in full and on Netflix's YouTube channel.

I highly recommend this sci fi fantasy

[diggedy derek]

The BBC's The Space Shuttle that Fell to Earth, about the loss of the Columbia, is fascinating, infuriating, incredibly moving. It leaves you full of admiration for some and full of contempt for others. It's brilliant.

This doc is incredibly vivid and gripping and, at points, almost too much

[San Bernardhinault]

Finished the last of the Best Picture nominees at the weekend with American Fiction, which I really liked. Funny and charming, not too heavy handed. I've heard or read reviews saying that there's too much of the publishing and not enough of the family; and other reviews the other way round. I actually thought it was an excellent balance. The two halves made the whole film more complete.

A really good selection of films this year, definitely better than usual, with only two genuine disappointments.

[RobW]

I watched Bottoms the other night and it was very funny.

[Simon G]

I started The Good Place yesterday. Series 1 is nearly done and it's fantastic.

[Benjm]

I've just watched Paths of Glory and Benjm might be interested to know that one of the main cast members, Richard Anderson, went on to play Oscar Goldman, who he referenced earlier on another thread.

Those were the days; an actor could turn up on set, deliver good work and not have to worry about being judged by the popularity of his action figure.

[Hot Pepsi]

The doomcore version of “Twist and Shout” was unnecessary.

And there were some bits where people survived hypothermia that were not realistic. The temperature in Northern Alaska in winter is well below zero F.

And just giving a pass to extrajudicial executions just felt like a weak resolution.

[danielmak]

I don’t feel good about the ending of True Detective.

I will avoid spoilers but will only say that I was good with it. I was worried there was going to be a bunch of mystical stuff and the ending was going to be as much of a letdown as the first series. I felt like it wrapped up in an unexpected way but also in a realistic way. I wouldn't say this was one of my top shows of all time, but certainly one of the better shows during the last year. With that said, my general move is to start something, feel like I am wasting time that I can't get back, and just return to watching football or baseball.

[Hot Pepsi]

I don’t feel good about the ending of True Detective.

This is a good episode of Curb. “Lemons are a fungible citrus.”

[Nocturnal Submission]

The film is loosely based on this infamous event: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souain_corporals_affair

[Nocturnal Submission]

I've just watched Paths of Glory and Benjm might be interested to know that one of the main cast members, Richard Anderson, went on to play Oscar Goldman, who he referenced earlier on another thread.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

That's quite the cast list - I'm not sure how often Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom found themselves in the same production.

Directed by Cy Endfield, I see. I mainly know him for Zulu. Had to quit Hollywood after being blacklisted.

I’d watch it just to see Lom and Greenwood. Chief Inspector Dreyfus meets Sibella!

Apart from having been a great actor, Lom must still hold the record for length ratio of real and stage surnames.

[Hot Pepsi]

He was the Steven Spielberg of his day.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Not a lot. He is a popular source for new cheap scifi films and TV largely because they don’t have to pay him royalties.

Well, yeah, obviously. But he was a massive source of material and ideas ever since films' earliest days (cf: Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon)

[Hot Pepsi]

Can you imagine what kind of residuals Jules Verne would be getting if he was still alive?

Not a lot. He is a popular source for new cheap scifi films and TV largely because they don’t have to pay him royalties. That’s also why we get a new take on Sherlock Holmes every year or two.

I’m not sure if that was true in the Golden Age when Disney made 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I always get distracted when Sid James turns up in minor character roles in non-saucy drama films. I watched a 1950s film last week called Campbell's Kingdom, about a struggle over land rights in Canada. Dirk Bogarde and (the great) Stanley Baker were fine as the leads, Sid and James Robertson Justice more, well, incongruous in their supporting parts. Anyway, nice location photography, worth a watch.

Yes, I can't quite handle the cognitive dissonance that creates. Leonard Rossiter in 2001, Leslie Nielsen in Forbidden Planet...

All just so wrong.

[Benjm]

That's quite the cast list - I'm not sure how often Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom found themselves in the same production.

I always get distracted when Sid James turns up in minor character roles in non-saucy drama films. I watched a 1950s film last week called Campbell's Kingdom, about a struggle over land rights in Canada. Dirk Bogarde and (the great) Stanley Baker were fine as the leads, Sid and James Robertson Justice more, well, incongruous in their supporting parts. Anyway, nice location photography, worth a watch.

[Amor de Cosmos]

It doesn’t make a lot of sense that they take off from Richmond and end up over the Pacific Ocean. That is about 3,000 miles and at least three mountain ranges away.

But now I want to see it.

Apparently, there are at least four film versions of it, including a TV series with Patrick Stewart.

Can you imagine what kind of residuals Jules Verne would be getting if he was still alive?

[Nocturnal Submission]

That's quite the cast list - I'm not sure how often Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom found themselves in the same production.

Directed by Cy Endfield, I see. I mainly know him for Zulu. Had to quit Hollywood after being blacklisted.

[Nocturnal Submission]

It doesn’t make a lot of sense that they take off from Richmond and end up over the Pacific Ocean. That is about 3,000 miles and at least three mountain ranges away.

But now I want to see it.

Apparently, there are at least four film versions of it, including a TV series with Patrick Stewart.

Yes, it's fair to say that there one or two plot details that don't quite add up!

[Nocturnal Submission]

That sounds like Mysterious Island, NS. It turns up now and again on Talking Pictures, Legend and other thriftily budgeted digital channels.

Great stuff! I'll keep an eye out for it.

Talking of the less celebrated film channels, Paths of Glory is on Great!action, or however it styles itself, at 7.05 this evening.