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[I.Wright]

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Liam Neeson chasing Pierce Brosnan across america back in the cowboy days. I can never remember names of films but this one was bloody good.

[Guest]

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I've got to get through the whole of Dexter series 2 before Wednesday. I'm hoping to manage to watch it in order, unlike series 1...

[Guest]

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Is the Andersson film in cinemas or on DVD, Lyra? Songs from the Second Floor was indeed brilliant.

[Guest]

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It's been and gone at the cinema, I believe; the DVD won't be ready yet (that's why I was watching it today) but I imagine it'll be out in a month or so. I can't get over how good it was, and I had high expectations after SFTSF.

[Lucia Lanigan]

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Yeah, it came out in March I think. I couldn't persuade anyone to go.

[erwin]

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Saw My Blueberry Nights last night (I was forced). Very dull opening, and Norah Jones will never win an Oscar, I mean never. But it had some good things - David Strathairn as the obsessed, alcoholic, cuckolded husband, for instance(identification?). And it looks very good. In the end I kinda liked it.

*** possible spoiler ***

There are two very creepy moments, though: in both of them, Our Norah is slumped comatose over the counter of a café, bits of blueberry pie and cream on her lips, and Jude Law (yes he - awful) leans over and kisses them clean.

Ooh - a shuddering down the spine just thinking of it.

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[Heliotrope]

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I can't stop thinking about Marie Antoinette after having watched it over the weekend. I know I should start its own thread instead of using this one, but I have nilophobia. Would there be any takers for a separate discussion?

[Guest]

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Me. I *adored* Marie Antoinette.

[Guest]

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So over the last 2 days I have watched Dexter series 2. It was pretty enjoyable. Yes. I liked it a bit more than series 1. Apparently they didn't stick to the storyline of a book this time.

[Guest]

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Since Channel 4, E4, and More4 became FTA last week I find myself watching a lot of Grand Designs, interspersed with the likes of My Name is Earl.

I'm sure the novelty will wear off soon enough.

[Guest]

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Doomsday last night. I actually really loved this. It's totally stupid, and it has that glorious kind of breathtaking pomposity with an undercurrent of humour that you get in all the best action films. There's also stacks of gore, there's a real culture of a very particular sort of violence, which always gives a film character. And it's set in that kind of future world where there's great technology, but everything's useless and rusty and falling apart, like, you know, Firefly type thing.

And it's a hilariously audacious mishmash of genres, which is kind of delightful. You can't decide whether to make a zombie film, a war film, a gladiator film, a disaster film, a sci-fi dystopia film, a Robin Hood drama - never mind, no need to choose.

It actually really reminded me of the Australian series The Tribe, which I used to absolutely love. Same theme of post apocalyptic punk and discussion of how religions arise.

Oh I meant to add - there's not one plot point that stands up to even a moment's thought. You have to just accept that and go with it, otherwise it would be no fun at all.

[Kowalski]

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Dempsey and Makepeace ITV 3. After not watching it for 20 years I'd forgotton how believable it all is.

In this installment they're performing undercover surveilence.

Their vehicle of choice; an open-top Escort XR3i.
Their uniform; a bow tie and blonde bubble perm for her, head to toe stonewashed Denim with a lovely padded collar for him.

[ian.64]

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Cloverfield - on an outstandingly good naughtily-downloaded DVD copy. Excellent quality.

Dramatically non-existent (and I'm glad I didn't see it in a cinema - motion-sickness as entertainment isn't a concept I wish to embrace), but technically superb and a mind-boggler in so far as wondering How They Did That (yes, I know it was CGI, but it's so seamless these days I have trouble figuring out where pixels start and sets end). The shaky-cam, documentary style was a novel choice of approach even though it's been done to death now, and it did exert a frenzied creepiness of some kind - and a sense of wary anticipation prior to the first jolt.

One amusing aspect - you've seen the head of the Statue of Liberty flying down the street, you've got a skyscraper-large creature visiting apocalypse on your city....and you can't shout FUUUUUCK?

[Spearmint Rhino]

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I'm nearing the end of Six Feet Under, and there have been some outstanding episodes. Notably the one where there's a party at the art gallery where Claire has her work displayed, and the one (which I watched last night) where they all throw a surprise 40th birthday party for Nate, and a blue bird flies in through the window.

[Commodore]

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It’s Mad Men for me – it is compulsive not only for the storyline and acting (both flawless) but the sheer attention to detail shown in the all aspects of life that was pertinent to 1960 is staggering – it’s a real period piece. The theme tune kicks ass too, it’s the best I’ve heard in a long time.

[Guest]

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Mad Men is incredibly good.

[ian.64]

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Planet Terror - utter bollocks. Untidy, thrill-less and with only a few inventive moments here and there to lift it. Disappointing after hearing so much of this word of mouth that said it was by far the better of the two Grindhouse movies intended for a double-bill. A waste of time.

That said, Rose McGowan (she of the machine-gun leg) is cute.

[Gerontophile]

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New Tricks which has been running on UKTV Drama, and I have been taping whilst otherwise engaged.

Its a really good programme, and the weak link is Dennis Waterman, although he doesnt get too much to do except chat up 'birds' and cook Cordon Bleu occasionally. I love it. Especially Amanda Redman who isnt too vain to show the huge burn scars on her arm. Alun Armstrong and James Bolam are not even trying to be brilliant.

West Wing (reruns)

I have been a total slave to this since it first came out, and in the second complete run, I have forgotten half of the storylines which is BRILLIANT, as I get to see them all again with a new eye.

Peep Show

I have seen one episode, and I almost did myself a mischief through laughter... I keep forgetting its on, as I have a routine (dont ask)

[Rabbitoh]

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Saw a repeat of the Art of Spain tonight; brilliant.

[Gerontophile]

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Shrink Rap with Kathleen Turner.

Either Ms Turner is the best actress ever (possible) or she has, with Pamela Stephenson, nudging and prodding (guidedly), just participated in the most honest thing on TV. (Stephen Fry was far too knowing, in his)

Either way, she is fucking PHENOMENAL.

Now, I am with the judges on this one... why are these celebrities allowing their 'stuff' to be shown on TV? Salman Rushdie did one, and I didnt watch it. Robin Williams did one, and again, I didnt watch it. Are these all mates of her husband, or is that sheer, unadulterated sexism on my part?

Whatever it is, Kathleen Turner is just superb.

[Gerontophile]

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I like Pamela Anderson, but she reminds me of:



and of course I meant Stephenson/Connolly

[Eggchaser]

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The Supersizers Go...1940s

Giles Coren and Sue Perkins live for a week on rationing food. Brilliant, especially when he pissed off to the War Rooms to dine like Churchill whilst she was forced to forage in the field for snails.

Can't wait for the Restoration one next week. Any programme with a trailer containing the line "I've been drunk since 9 a.m." sounds good to me.

[Ray de Galles]

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I happened on that for the last 20 minutes or so and it was very enjoyable, mainly because Coren and Perkins are very personable.

I hope to find a BBC3/4 repeast and am going to record the next one, was it the first in a series?

[ian.64]

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I Am Legend - watchable, yet undernourished sci-fi, with only a stunning depiction of New York as a wilderness as its trump card. A magazine reviewer once commented that when Isaac Asimov's I, Robot came to the screen, it stopped being a film about Isaac Asimov's tale and just became A Will Smith Film.

The same is here, with Will Smith the centre of everything. He's actually good, but it seems to be Will Smith, not any particular character he's playing, who's engaged in the story's events. A case of the Gene Hackmans - being himself, but doing it well.

Faintly compelling, but ending up flaccid and saccherine in the end (and the CGI zombies - or whatever the makers intended them to be called - were ineffective. Well done, but blah). Wasted opportunity.

[Eggchaser]

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Yes, Fred, they're doing Restoration, Regency, 70s, Victorian and Elizabethan.