Off Topic Film, TV and hell, even book recommendations!

One of Mrs Fez' favourites, she has the lot. Not really my thing but it's difficult to ignore the genius of Gattiss, Riley, Pemberton, et al. Odd really, usually anything macabre and she's off out the door!

 

It is dark, but we really laughed. I think the final series doesn’t quite work, but the first ones are awesome.

 

Anybody? I have an opinion but wouldn't want to spoil the ending. I will say it has been a brilliant show overall. Riveting stuff.

 

Enjoyed it all - bar the ending which I thought was a bit odd, and I didn't fully understand the Spanish connection. But at least it leaves scope for a 7th series, even if there isn't one currently planned.

 

Yes.. Leaves it open for the next series.. Definitely more to be uncovered...

 

Jesus, Joseph, Mary, and the wee donkey, there's unfinished business here, I'll tell ye!

 

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We really enjoyed the recent Time drama on BBC

 

It was very good. Shame it wasn't longer but can understand why they decided to tie it up before it got boring.

 

just the right level of angst for me.. Was excellent really with great acting...
Mind you those dark Scandinavian dramas that go on week after week drive me away...

 

I have just watched 4 episodes of Philly DA. It's riveting , because so rarely does anything actually believable come out of the US.

 

Watched the film ‘Moonfleet’ with good old Stewart Grainger yesterday. What he was doing in my house I’ll never know (ba-boom-tshh). Anyway, I’d enjoyed it as a kid, but a pile of pony it is. I read the book in the summer and really enjoyed it - episodic Victorian magazine fare, along the lines of RL Stevenson/Wilkie Collins. The film was directed by Fritz Lang and produced by John Houseman, so I had high hopes. But they had butchered it almost beyond recognition. The Grainger character isn’t in the book, the hero character is halved in age to about 8, the action takes place across no more than a month rather tennish years. The father figure main character is sidelined and made into a baddie who wants the lad dead.

But my favourite moment was when the boy descends in a bucket 80ft down a well.



His bucket is stopped near the bottom of the well. Just to the left of his head in this image can be seen a light source. But what light source would be found at the bottom of a castle well?



The next shot reveals a newly-lit candle. Which left me wondering, whose job was it to light candles at the bottom of the well? Reminds me of the Derek & Clive ‘Worst Job I Ever Had’ sketch.

 

I know this isn’t the right thread for this, but very much enjoying Sibelius at the moment.

 

Was about to say right thread, music to read to - then I listened to it. Not my cup of tea...

 

Thoroughly enjoyed No Time To Die, a fitting epitaph for Daniel Craig's generally excellent tenure.

 

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.

The language is pretty explicit but by jiminy it's a cracking film... darkly funny and plot twists neither I nor Mrs Fez saw coming at all.

 

Really have to see that .

 

If anyone is into Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and has Audible .

The unabridged version narrated by Andy Serkis is simply Stunning imho .

 

As a student back in the early 60s I heard Tolkein lecture. I wonder what he'd have made of my books?

 

what are your books ?

Genuinely interested . PM me if you like