:netflix::prime_video_logo: Streaming Recommendations

Anyone else sample The Terror tonight? On BBC2 and also iplayer. Was apparently on BT TV 2 years ago.

Based on the true story of 2 Royal Navy ships trying to find the Northern Passage through the Arctic in 1848. Ridley Scott behind the show. Ciaran Hinds stars

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Thanks for that - was something we meant to watch and didn’t- will look it up :+1:

No. I’m not going to bed for a bit.

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Ash vs Evil Dead is completely over the top and ridiculous and I wouldn’t have it any other way, hail to the king baby! :lou_smiley:

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It’s very good. I watched the first two episodes and am hooked. Superb Arctic scenery, great acting and genuinely spooky.

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Better, faster, stronger…Lee Majors…I marked out…

The Terror is good Ta for whoever recommended that :+1:

So WandaVision wrapped yesterday. It’s probably one of the best things I’ve seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it came out on the telly. If this show is about exploring Wanda’s grief, then the finale would have taken anyone not already there along with her. By the end, the sense of loss is palpable and the potential consequences could be terrifying for anyone that isn’t Wanda (see end credits scenes).

I also can’t help thinking that in making this, Marvel have done themselves a bit of a mischief on the movie front. There are some meh Marvel movies, but no truly awful ones and some are some of the most impressive things put to screen. The Infinity War / Endgame Avengers movies spring to mind.

That said, they’re action oriented and don’t give a whole lot of time for characterisation, even when individual characters get their own movies. They’ve also been running the films as if it were a series, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that WandaVision translated so well.

Too well, maybe - because this show is more like an authentic comics experience than many of the movies are. A long time spent exploring out there shit, and deeply delving into a specific character. The best runs are based on it and the movies never gave a character the time Wanda’s had.

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Me!

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If only we had a thread for Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Cape-shit stuff

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Bates Motel is all on iplayer now. I think I watched it on netflix last year. 5 series to keep you busy in these not so busy times.

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I would certainly give Coming 2 America a recommend. It’s on Amazon Prime at the moment, and as someone who had a lot of time for the first film, I’m actually quite pleased with this one. Sure, we re-tread a lot of the same things that we do, which I am more than happy with. I will never tire of the barbership quartet.

It should be called Coming To Zumunda, because the plot is basically film #1 in reverse. Akeem finds out he has a bastard son in America who comes to Zumunda to learn to be a prince.

So many of the old actors are back. Queen Lisa is still the same actor from the originals, even though she hasn’t done much since. Her dad is back, as are co-workers at McDowells. Of course, it helps that so many of the roles were played by Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall, both doing the multi-role stuff again.

It’s a good sequel that may not have as many laughs per minute as the original, but doesn’t shit on it and made me laugh many times. And let’s be honest, the original was never a five star film anyway; it was just a beloved good film.

Does Eddie Murphy do white jewface again?

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For some reason, I’ve now got an earworm of Neville Staple calling out ā€œDont call me jewface!!!ā€ :smile:

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IF you haven’t seen it, Drive to Survive ( Netflix) is showing on Sky Sports soon.
Superb fly on wall documentary on F1.
We both found it really interesting

You mean, is Saul in the film? Yes he is. The barbershop lads have a few scenes. Is that a thing?

Parasite

  • South Korean black comedy

  • Highly recommended :+1:

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Just watched Heat again. On Prime. What a movie.

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The weirdness of life continues.
The late night movie here is the epic & very not PC Tropic Thunder.
Complete with IronMan playing a Blackface Tony Stark

Boy, did I get that wrong :roll_eyes: