death tribble Posted December 24, 2022 Report Share Posted December 24, 2022 More catch up Shelley Christmas Special This is a Christmas episode of the sitcom with Hywel Bennett playing Shelley. It is a half hour programme from the early 80s. Meant more to me as I had seen the original series and the humour appeals to me. Bloodbath at the House of Death This is a comedy vehicle for Kenny Everett with him portraying a doctor looking into the paranormal at a house where people were massacred 8 years previously. Despite several reliable actors in the cast and Vincent Price as a guest, it just does not work. See it for Price. The Blood Beast Terror Peter Cushing is a Scotland Yard inspector looking into the grisly murders of young men in Victorian England. The killer is a giant moth who can take human form as Wanda Ventham. This is a horror film with Peter Cushing (although not Hammer), what more can I say ? Perfect Friday Stanley Baker, Ursula Andress and David Warner team up to rob a bank where Baker works. The idea is simple and although of its time the idea works due to the leads. Worth a look. The English This is a revisionist Western with Emily Blunt coming to America to avenge her son's death. She teams up with a Pawnee Indian and ex-cavalry scout to find the man responsible. There are quite a few British actors in the cast and it is quite dark subject matter but well worth a look. Chaske Spencer is the Pawnee Indian and someone to watch out for in future. Rogue Heroes The creation of the Special Air Service in North Africa is brought to life in this series. It was highly entertaining and as the narrative states what seems fantastical is mostly true. The series ends with the death of one of the founders and their commander David Stirling captured by the Germans. But you would not have wanted to upset this bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 24, 2022 Report Share Posted December 24, 2022 +1 for Rogue Heroes. This would be an excellent premise for an RPG campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 25, 2022 Report Share Posted December 25, 2022 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery: Set during the pandemic shutdown, this is an interesting murder mystery with Daniel Craig reprising his role as the great detective, Benoit Blanc. Worth a watch. (Netflix) Strange World: This Disney animated film wants to be a pulp-style lost world adventure, but falls a bit flat in the execution. (Disney+) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted December 25, 2022 Report Share Posted December 25, 2022 Wow. Andor was really good...why can't all SW projects have this kind of writing.... mattingly and Lawnmower Boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 25, 2022 Report Share Posted December 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Starlord said: Wow. Andor was really good...why can't all SW projects have this kind of writing.... Andor was written and directed as if it was a prestige drama that just happens to be set in the Star Wars universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 The Muppet Christmas Carol (Full Length Version): Disney+ has restored the VHS cut of this excellent version of the Charles Dickens story, which means that you won't have to go to Youtube to get the missing song. Look in the Extras section for it. (Disney+) Babylon 5 Season 3 (and a bit more): Most of the episodes concerning the Shadow War. I hadn't remembered just how badass Vir was. (HBOmax) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Classic animated feature film, the first from Disney, and one of the best. (Disney+) The Wheel: This is an imported British game show, where three contestants are spun to choose one to engage in a series of trivia questions with help from six celebrities, who are also spun around the chosen contestant to see which one will "help" them. I've watched the first three episodes in the NBC version, and by the second, I found myself fast forwarding past the player spins, and by the third, I was often fast forwarding through the celebrity spins. The basic trivia questions and celebrity interactions are good, the padding isn't. (Peacock) Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 John Carpenter's The Thing. It's been a while since I've seen it. rravenwood and Starlord 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackBrass Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 Ghostbusters was on the telly yesterday, which was on in the background at mum's. Since the nieces are now in their thirties and there weren't many people there for Boxing Day it wasn't so chaotic that I couldn't watch it. Despite the inevitable TV editing removing Winston's best line it was great. Holds up remarkably well; and some of those model shots are still spectacular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 Started watching Tulsa King. Stallone is a mafia capo who's been relegated to Oklahoma. Fun so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted December 28, 2022 Report Share Posted December 28, 2022 Belated Columbo night as our detective matches wits with Patrick McGoohan as a funeral director who kills Reporter Rue McClanahan when she threatens him. Sally Kellerman plays a dead guy's wife who McGoohan is wooing. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 28, 2022 Report Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 12/26/2022 at 11:03 PM, Ternaugh said: Babylon 5 Season 3 (and a bit more): Most of the episodes concerning the Shadow War. I hadn't remembered just how badass Vir was. (HBOmax) There's not a single member of the main cast that doesn't have at least one legit badass moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 30, 2022 Report Share Posted December 30, 2022 Runaway Train I have not seen this film since it was at the cinema. Jon Voight and Eric Stoltz escape a maximum security prison and board a train. Only the train becomes a runaway and the track personnel have to try and stop it. The warden of the prison is after the prisoners particularly Voight's. Danny Trejo has a bit part as a criminal who boxes. Worth a look. Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge Finally saw this one all the way through. I had no seen the start with the robbery. Nor the witch that Barbossa and the English consult. It does not have the magic of the others. Still good as it has Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush and of course Depp. Bad Boys II Unusually I had seen the original and the final film before seeing the second. It is long and violent and has lots of bad language. Means more if you have seen the original. Martin Lawrence is better when paired with Will Smith. The Cheap Detective Peter Falk in a spoof of many of the great film noirs of the 40s like The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. You need to see these films in order to appreciate this one. Song of London This is a 1963 short with lots of music. It passes a half hour and is a glimpse into the past. Nice to see Harrods as there are certain bits of the store that have not changed. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians This has a reputation as one of the worst films. See it and understand why. It deserves to be one of the worst films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rravenwood Posted December 31, 2022 Report Share Posted December 31, 2022 Saw Avatar: The Way of Water today. I enjoyed it, but felt that it should have pushed into new directions more than it did and not engage in as much apparent "we need to include this because the original had it too" as it did. Don't get me wrong, there are many other sequels which are far more guilty of that sort of thing than this one, but it was noticeable enough to me. Hopefully the subsequent films in the series really kick off into entirely new and different story dimensions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things This is a 1970s horror film with a director and actors going to an island off Miami in order to create atmosphere for their performance. They also dig up a corpse and then conjure up the dead from an old spell book. But nothing happens. At first.... Then the dead arise. And the living have to find a way to stop them. For a cheap film it has some stand out moments like the dead coming out of the ground. The acting is pretty ripe and it looks a bit amateurish but it is worth more than one look. Bloody New Year Six teenagers become stranded on an island off the coast of Wales. They are fleeing troublemakers at the funfair. The hotel is deserted but then strange events start happening. And why is the hotel got Christmas decorations up when it is July ? This is a supernatural horror film and is not bad. Different to the slasher films as there is not one big bad like Jason or Freddy Kruegar. Definitely worth a look. Waking the Dead (pilot episode) This was about a cold case unit looking at unsolved crimes in Britain. The pilot looked at the case of a girl who had been abducted for ransom and then killed. However as news breaks that the case is being looked at again, the killer abducts another girl. The police look at it as two separate cases despite the killer wanting to talk to the Cold Case Unit's head who headed the original investigation. The killer toys with the police even as they find the original murder site. Meant more to me as I had seen the original series and was thus more invested in it. Jools Holland Hootenany This is the New Year tradition as the other sided tend to be rather bleh. It was not that good this year but it is music and it does not get hysterical. Tommy Cooper Christmas Special Tommy Cooper was a comedy institution for the British. Standing at 6 foot 3 and wearing a fez he would do a magic act that nearly always failed but it was the build up that had you. The show was a bit dated but still fun, No Time to Die Daniel Craig's last outing as Bond starts with a mother and child being menaced by a masked gunman. This turns out to be Mr White's family from Casino Royale. The mother is killed but the child tries to escape and falls through the frozen ice of a lake only to be rescued by the killer. Madelaine, Mr White's daughter, is with Bond in Italy when he goes to see Vesper Lynd's grave and is then almost killed by a bomb. Assassins then try to kill him. He manages to escape with her and gets her to a rail station where he says his goodbyes. Five years later a laboratory is attacked and a scientist is kidnapped but everyone else is killed. Felix attempts to get Bond to look for someone in Cuba and MI6 warn him off. Bond goes to Cuba and teams up with an eager CIA operative played by Ana de Armas as they infiltrate a meeting of SPECTRE operatives. You hear Blofeld talking to them and he tries to kill Bond with a gas but this turns out to have been sabotaged by the scientist to kill SPECTRE personnel. Lashanna Lynch playing Bond's replacement in MI6 Nomi grabs the scientist but is topped from getting away and Bond gets the scientist. Bond has worked out that someone else is in charge and trying to kill people. The scientist is working for them and Felix's partner is one of his stooges. He fatally wounds Felix and leaves Bond to die on a sinking trawler. Bond returns to London to confront Blofeld and finds Madelaine is his psychiatrist. The killer from the start of the film is the one in charge and he wants Madelaine to infect Blofeld with killer nanobots. This succeeds only because Bond touches Madelaine and then tries to strangle Blofeld. Bond goes after Madelaine and finds her in Norway as Safin's people try to grab her. She has a five year old child who Madelaine claims is not Bond's. Safin's people grab Madelaine and child but Felix's treacherous partner is killed by Bond. Bond and Nomi go to an island in the Sea of Japan which is Safin's base. It is an old Russian missile base which is a farm and factory for Safin's nanobots and a garden of deadly plants (which is a throwback to Blofeld in the books having a deadly garden). Nomi and Bond plant explosives but have to call in a missile strike as the factory and farm need to be wiped out. Nomi kills the scientist while Bond rescues Madelaine and her child. Bond goes back to open the silo doors but is infected by the nanobots by Safin which will kill Madelaine and her child so he stays on the island to ensure that all trace of them is wiped out. The film is quite poignant and follows the theme of Craig's tenure by linking all the films and the emotional impact that it has. The theme tune is also pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 Stargirl season one: Much better than I thought it would be, I'll be starting season two soon. (HBOmax) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: The original, with Walter Matthau as a New York MTA police detective dealing with the hijacking of a subway train by a gang of four (led by Robert Shaw as "Blue") for a ransom of $1 million. Always worth a watch. (HBOmax) mattingly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 I recently re-watched the first few episodes of the animated Gargoyles series from the 90s. Beautiful artwork, amazing voice cast, intricate plots and overall story arc, and one of the smartest, savviest villains in television history — not just animation. It's as good as I remember. (Disney+) Grailknight and Lord Liaden 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 The Menu. Now this is my kind of horror. Loved it. Ralph Fiennes is awesome as always, and I'm developing a huge crush on Anya Taylor-Joy. Highly recommend. Joe Walsh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2023 Report Share Posted January 8, 2023 One splinter movie channel showed Tora! Tora! Tora! last night. I think that's the first non-sports thing I've watched start to end on TV in literally years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted January 8, 2023 Report Share Posted January 8, 2023 Started rewatching Disney's Gummi Bears on Disney +. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted January 9, 2023 Report Share Posted January 9, 2023 Columbo night brings our detective trying to crack the alibi of conductor Billy Connollaly. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 The Man With One Red Shoe Dangerous Minds Three Men and a Baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 Cooking videos from B. Dylan Hollis. He makes recipes from old cookbooks (some as old as the 19th century) with witty commentary along the way. His reactions are priceless sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Walsh Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 Weathering with You - I enjoyed this Japanese animated romantic fantasy movie about a runaway high school boy who befriends a "sunshine girl" who can, at a cost, control the weather. Grailknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 Violent Night is now on my Christmas movie list. An odd mix of Die Hard, Home alone, and Hallmark Scott Ruggels and Ternaugh 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 4 hours ago, Pariah said: Cooking videos from B. Dylan Hollis. He makes recipes from old cookbooks (some as old as the 19th century) with witty commentary along the way. His reactions are priceless sometimes. He is a treasure. He's mostly baking, but there are some other interesting recipes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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