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prophet:marginal wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:31 pm Watch this show if only for the section on Bagram Airbase. Amazing scenes.
Interested in this.....channel Proph?
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Jonah wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:19 am Interested in this.....channel Proph?
BBC2 is initial broadcast, so you can get both eps on iPlayer, J.
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The Spy that came in from the cold.

Possibly Richard Burtons finest hour.
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Woodstock 99. Did know anything about it before. What a difference 30 years can make.
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prophet:marginal wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:31 pm Spent the last two nights watching the two-parter re the war in/departure from Afghanistan.

What a total disaster that was.
I haven't seen this, but I've been watching a programme about the Partition of India in 1947, which has a lot of parallels. After WW2 Britain decided it no longer wanted to be in charge of India, so pulled out in a matter of months, leaving border disputes and massive religious hatred behind.

Over 1 million people died, over 12 million were displaced, primarily because the British Government just didn't care.
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Watched the documentary that the film Pain & Gain was based on - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/

It's on Peacock - Florida Man Murders https://www.oxygen.com/florida-man-murders
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I enjoyed Black Bird. I didn't think it would be much cop and wasn't really a fan of Taron Egerton. I watched episodes back to back and finished the final 2 episodes last night. The only criticism would be that it felt slightly rushed towards the end. I was expecting prison life to be developed more into a sort of Prison Break scenario whereby he had to deal with two ongoing situations simultaneously.
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I accidentally took up a free 14 day trial of Acorn TV so decided to see what they had worth watching. Came across something called The Chelsea Detective which was really a rather good crime drama.
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southbrishammer wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:54 am I haven't seen this, but I've been watching a programme about the Partition of India in 1947, which has a lot of parallels. After WW2 Britain decided it no longer wanted to be in charge of India, so pulled out in a matter of months, leaving border disputes and massive religious hatred behind.

Over 1 million people died, over 12 million were displaced, primarily because the British Government just didn't care.
A superb programme, which shamed the British.

Not helped by he fact that the last Viceroy (Mountbatten "Darling Uncle Dickie" according to Prince Charles) was an arrogant moron who was totally out of his depth. He caused the deaths of thousands through his incompetence and meddling, whilst his wife was busy bonking Nehru.

It later came out that he was a sexual predator and a paedophile with a "perversion for young boys".

The Royal family - don't ya just love 'em?
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HIDDEN

watched the first series and forgot I had the other two. Welsh language with subs.

pretty decent, cracking scenery and a good cast.

not in the top however many series I've ever watched, Hinterland was, imvho much better, but even so, passed a few hours binging..

as for Metal Hammer above, I also thought The Chelsea Detective was a good watch. under the radar I thought as I also only "stumbled" across it. Acorn is a US thing I think, and as such of course, I only get ads when I watch the US tv channels and only the ones that Acorn decide to advertise on.
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I've just got access to Disney + via a mate's login. My first watch:

The Black Hole (1979)

A Disney sci-fi flick that i watched, and loved, when it first came out, so wanted to see again for old time's sake.

As a grown up it has the feel of a 50s B movie with decent 70s special effects. The plot is slow, the acting fairly wooden and the science ropey as hell, but the cast includes Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine and Maximilian Schell, and I still love it.
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As it was De Niro's Birthday, we decided to watch one of his best films IMO, Midnight Run.

Brilliant film.
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Took a chance to watch Bosch S1E1 last night.

Seemed good enough to stick with, albeit that the lead looks like James Nesbitt.
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southbrishammer wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:09 am I've just got access to Disney + via a mate's login. My first watch:

The Black Hole (1979)

A Disney sci-fi flick that i watched, and loved, when it first came out, so wanted to see again for old time's sake.

As a grown up it has the feel of a 50s B movie with decent 70s special effects. The plot is slow, the acting fairly wooden and the science ropey as hell, but the cast includes Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine and Maximilian Schell, and I still love it.
It's a proper weird film.

The red robots killing method was pretty grim for a kids film...
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Maximilian was a criminally underrated robot. Utterly malevolent.

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Top Gun: Maverick. Beautifully photographed pish.
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dasnutnock3 wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:55 am Maximilian was a criminally underrated robot. Utterly malevolent.
Such wanton destruction of quality paperwork.
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Burnley Hammer wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:34 am Such wanton destruction of quality paperwork.
He knew it was worth it to stick a big hole in Norman Bates.
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Had all the Black Hole action figures...would probably be worth a few quid now.
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prophet:marginal wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:39 am Took a chance to watch Bosch S1E1 last night.

Seemed good enough to stick with, albeit that the lead looks like James Nesbitt.
and his bloody house is, as they say, "to die for."

:crylol:

didn't think about the James Nesbitt link, but you're spot on upon reflection.

really good series though imvho. lots of recommendations on here too.
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