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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 25, 2023 15:46:33 GMT
The Woman in the Wall (BBC1, iplayer)
Ruth Wilson plays Lorna Brady, an Irish woman who, as a pregnant teenager in the 80s was sent to work in a laundry run by the Catholic Church and subsequently had her baby taken off her. Now in her 40s, she suffers mental health issues, drinks heavily and has clearly never got over the trauma of what happened to her.
This got some negative reviews after the first episode which fucking baffled me. It's been utterly compelling from start to finish. Ruth Wilson is outstanding and entirely convincing in her role.
This may be fictional but the backstory is absolutely true and would curl your fucking toes. The Catholic Church in Ireland was so deeply wicked and had so much power that unmarried mothers literally had their babies taken off them. This was still operating as recently as the 80s. Truly fucking horrific.
9/10, no tits.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Sept 25, 2023 23:09:11 GMT
I have a mate in Dublin. In the 80s his aunt got pregnant and was sent to the laundry to work. 2 days after her baby was born she was turfed out on to the street and left. Her baby was sold to an American couple and actually got in touch when she was 18. Hundreds of babies died and their bodies thrown into a septic tank at one laundry. The more you look into the stories the more horrific it gets and you can only imagine the details that remain secret.
The Woman in the Wall has been a highly significant modern drama that will become a future classic.
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Post by mekon on Sept 27, 2023 8:26:32 GMT
Blue beetle (2023)
Not much to say about this. It's basically iron man for Mexicans except the iron man suit is sort also a bit like venom.... whatever.
This genre is pretty much done now. For some reason DC only seems to adapt their best comic stories to animated form and the cinema is left for utter rubbish scriptwriters to run rampant.
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Post by mekon on Oct 1, 2023 19:19:20 GMT
The Creator (2023)
In the future America is at war with AI having been the victim of an AI nuke that levelled LA. The Asian nations however are best mates with AI but the Americans aren't having that and are going to stick their noses in and have a war. AI needs to be wiped out.
Sadly this starts well and rapidly drops off with plot holes that are too big to ignore. By the end none of it makes sense. It looks amazing but that only carries it so far. It's basically a Vietnam film with nasty Americans imposing themselves and a message of 'if machines can love...'
6/10 because it looks good. Most disappointing film of the year.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Oct 1, 2023 20:32:27 GMT
She, A Chinese (2009)
This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her entrapment begins anew.
I think this was a low budget project. First half in China, second in London. If you take it a face value, it is quite an eye opener about life in rural china.
An enjoyable sad film that was acted well.
Tits but...
7.5/10
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Post by paulg on Oct 2, 2023 11:52:09 GMT
The Woman in the Wall (BBC1, iplayer) Ruth Wilson plays Lorna Brady, an Irish woman who, as a pregnant teenager in the 80s was sent to work in a laundry run by the Catholic Church and subsequently had her baby taken off her. Now in her 40s, she suffers mental health issues, drinks heavily and has clearly never got over the trauma of what happened to her. This got some negative reviews after the first episode which fucking baffled me. It's been utterly compelling from start to finish. Ruth Wilson is outstanding and entirely convincing in her role. This may be fictional but the backstory is absolutely true and would curl your fucking toes. The Catholic Church in Ireland was so deeply wicked and had so much power that unmarried mothers literally had their babies taken off them. This was still operating as recently as the 80s. Truly fucking horrific. 9/10, no tits. Agree, we're on our way through it now...Fantastic progamme and bloody dark |
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Post by pantah on Oct 4, 2023 9:49:10 GMT
65. Sky movies
65 million years ago an astronaut from a distant galaxy transporting life forms crash lands on an unknown planet after being struck by a meteor storm. He and one passenger survive ( a ten year old female) and it turns out the unknown planet is Earth which is inhabited by dinosaurs.
Quite gripping storyline as they try to reach the escape pod which is 15 km away. You can imagine the danger.
Apart from weirdly that the astronaut has an American accent this is an enjoyable watch.
No tits
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Post by paulg on Oct 4, 2023 10:24:15 GMT
65. Sky movies 65 million years ago an astronaut from a distant galaxy transporting life forms crash lands on an unknown planet after being struck by a meteor storm. He and one passenger survive ( a ten year old female) and it turns out the unknown planet is Earth which is inhabited by dinosaurs. Quite gripping storyline as they try to reach the escape pod which is 15 km away. You can imagine the danger. Apart from weirdly that the astronaut has an American accent this is an enjoyable watch. No tits
Probably best...
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Oct 5, 2023 16:06:55 GMT
Boiling Point (film Ch4)
Boiling Point (tv series iplayer)
I watched the Boiling point movie on Saturday then binged the 4 part series on Sunday.
I'm a bit conflicted by this and much of it is down to expectations.
I'm a massive Stephen Graham fan and have been since This is England. The standard of his performances makes him one of the greatest living actors in my opinion. The problem with this is that your expectations are extremely high whenever you watch him in anything. Also, there was so much hype around Boiling Point when it came out that I felt I had already seen it. It's not a bad film, far from it but I just oddly felt that it had nothing new to offer me. The story of the chef on the edge had no surprises but the originality lay in the 'one scene' method of filming it and it just didn't fire me up in the way it might have had I watched it without knowing every fucking thing about it beforehand.
Same with the 4 part series. Stephen Graham's involvement is limited to the point it was hardly worth him turning up. It isn't shot in 'single scene' but some characters carry over from the film. It's essentially a collection of cunts having life crises and all happening to work in the same restaurant.
I've probably been overly harsh on both of these, they are certainly worth watching. I maybe just had very high expectations that weren't quite met.
6.5/10. No tits.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Oct 7, 2023 20:04:49 GMT
Irvine Welsh's Crime, season 2 (ITVX, STV player)
Dougray Scott returns as DI Ray Lennox to scrape the filth off of Edinburgh's manky floor.
Levels and levels above. Simply the best TV you will see anywhere. I'm halfway through and utterly torn between wanting to binge it and wanting to ration the joy and stretch it out as long as possible. Fuck it, binge then repeat.
Not for your nan.
100/10. Fleeting tits.
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Post by pantah on Oct 8, 2023 7:00:06 GMT
Irvine Welsh's Crime, season 2 (ITVX, STV player) Dougray Scott returns as DI Ray Lennox to scrape the filth off of Edinburgh's manky floor. Levels and levels above. Simply the best TV you will see anywhere. I'm halfway through and utterly torn between wanting to binge it and wanting to ration the joy and stretch it out as long as possible. Fuck it, binge then repeat. Not for your nan. 100/10. Fleeting tits. Just finished watching Crime and I totally agree with the noodlemeister . Fantastic telly. Dougray Scott is unbelievably good and the banter between Ray and Bob Toal (Ken Stott as his boss) brings humour to the horror. Love the Taggart reference when about to say there’s been a murder, quickly changes it to homicide. Irvine Welsh is a fucking genius. |
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Post by mekon on Oct 9, 2023 18:45:59 GMT
The Walking Dead - Daryl Dixon
The Walking Dead - Dead City (featuring NEGAN, everyone loves NEGAN)
Fuck me. I hate watched the Walking dead until the bitter end. I didn't enjoy it since about season 4 but by fuck, I was not going to it get the better of me. Anyway after thinking that was that with it all there's a load of fucking spinoffs!!!!
Dead City first. Negan and Maggie (yes the Maggie whose husband Negan killed) need to go into New York to rescue Maggie son who's been kidnapped by Negan's old psycho henceman. Cool, it's New York....with zombies....how cool is that?!? Sort of but not very. The henceman has a sort of functioning society going on where the city is powered from methane from rotting zombies in the sewers. Whatever. The whole thing was just meh. It wasn't as bad as the Walking Dead got but it wasn't great. Negan is now a parody of Negan.
Daryl Dixon. Daryl gets washed ashore. Where is he....France! That's right, for reasons yet explained he's in France. Anyway turns out France is also zombie infested and also has enforcer type warlords running the show and terrorising what's left of humanity.
Somehow this is a lot better than the others. The zombies aren't literally everywhere like they were in the walking dead (out for a walk vast wilderness....oh look there's a load of zombies) and the settings of rustic village and historic looking towns is quite cool. There's some silly storyline with a christ like child that will save France that Daryl now has to protect but at least we've now got acidic zombies and even a bloke with a zombie band. They clearly put a bit more effort into this one.
No tits in either. Daryl gets 7/10 and maybe an 8 for the musical zombies.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Oct 17, 2023 9:17:54 GMT
The Reckoning (BBC1, iplayer)
Pretty much agree with most critics on this. Coogan is chilling as Jimmy Savile and dederves a Bafta but what the fuck was the point of it? What did we learn that we didn't already know? Also, why was it called The Reckoning when the cunt got away with it?
It did let the BBC off the hook however it's worth noting that while the BBC broadcast the show, it was made by ITV studios. Perhaps if ITV had broadcast this it might have been a bit easier to digest.
One interesting aspect was that actual victims appeared on screen at the beginning of each episode and the specific attacks depicted were their stories. The cunt should have been kicked to fucking death.
8/10.
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Post by pantah on Oct 17, 2023 9:41:03 GMT
Apart from the fact that Coogan’s portrayal of the cunt is utterly brilliant, the point of it is that are still hundreds of nonces out there abusing kids and getting away with it . If this series manages to persuade even one victim to report their attacker then it’s been worthwhile.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Oct 17, 2023 12:07:39 GMT
Apart from the fact that Coogan’s portrayal of the cunt is utterly brilliant, the point of it is that are still hundreds of nonces out there abusing kids and getting away with it . If this series manages to persuade even one victim to report their attacker then it’s been worthwhile. You would hope that this would be the case but a common thread of the cases was that victims weren't listened to. One aspect that wasn't really addressed was the question of whether the BBC were wilfully ignoring the accusations against one of their biggest stars. Perhaps a favourable outcome might be that victims are taken seriously. |
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