Best TV shows or movies you can recommend (7 Viewers)

Farmer Jim · Feb 20, 2025

This was on Film4 last night and you can see why it swept the floor at the awards.

The Father.

Anthony Hopkins plays an elderly man suffering from dementia, as he slips in and out various realities, which include different versions of his daughter and son in law and the flat he lives in.

Hopkins gives the performance of his life, but it`s not an easy watch and I don`think it`s a film that you`d want to watch again, as it`s that devastating, especially the end scene.

It`ll be repeated and I highly recommend you watch it without distraction.

10/10.

Sky_Blue_Daz · Feb 20, 2025

Bad news and more bad news from the comic strip , Rik Mayall is sublime in it

Mcbean · Feb 20, 2025

Ta for the comments on Landman - started it last night Billy Bob character is superbly done - even the wife was chortling

Nick · Feb 20, 2025

Mcbean said:
Ta for the comments on Landman - started it last night Billy Bob character is superbly done - even the wife was chortling

Nice one "bud",

Nick · Feb 20, 2025

Zero day on Netflix now

Captain Dart · Feb 20, 2025

Talking pictures is serialising 1970-71 series 'Budgie'. It was very popular in it's day (impressions of Charlie Endel's character were very much in vogue in schools) but even if you were not born then it's instructive for Millennials and Gen Z to get a true feel of social attitudes of the time rather than the nonsense served up by programs like Grantchester, I think the lefties on here will scream in horror as much as I'd be likely to do if I watched recent episodes of Dr Who.

Mcbean · Feb 20, 2025

Captain Dart said:
Talking pictures is serialising 1970-71 series 'Budgie'. It was very popular in it's day (impressions of Charlie Endel's character were very much in vogue in schools) but even if you were not born then it's instructive for Millennials and Gen Z to get a true feel of social attitudes of the time rather than the nonsense served up by programs like Grantchester, I think the lefties on here will scream in horror as much as I'd be likely to do if I watched recent episodes of Dr Who.

I used to watch in the front room of our house when my folks had retired to the snug - loved the seediness of somewhere I had never been until later in school if my parents came out and could hear the telly I was immediately sent to bed

Otis · Feb 20, 2025

Nick said:
Zero day on Netflix now

Yeah. Am on episode 3. Liking it so far.

CovValleyBoy · Feb 21, 2025

LANDMAN. "An unashamed justification of the world's dependence on fossil fuels".
Not on the BBC.

Sbarcher · Feb 21, 2025

A Thousand Blows.
Just watched the 1st two episodes and it's great.
Will need to binge watch the rest later.

Sky_Blue_Daz · Feb 21, 2025

Sbarcher said:
A Thousand Blows.
Just watched the 1st two episodes and it's great.
Will need to binge watch the rest later.

Is this about Bonnie Blue?

mmttww · Feb 21, 2025

This is seriously good and it's on iPlayer (I think!)

mmttww · Feb 21, 2025

and this film is a really brilliant watch, also on iPlayer.

Ian1779 · Feb 21, 2025

If anyone wanders onto Prime and see Vivarium - don’t bother.
I’ve saved you the 2 wasted hours of your life with this recommendation.

Mcbean · Feb 21, 2025

Just seen September the 5th - very gripping - sad ending which we knew but very interesting build up

Farmer Jim · Feb 21, 2025

mmttww said:
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and this film is a really brilliant watch, also on iPlayer.

Great film.

Considering he started life as a rap artist, he`s gone onto become one of the best young British actors around ( imo )

You can almost guarantee, that if he`s in something now, it`s going to be good.

torchomatic · Feb 24, 2025

Finally started watching Severence. Brilliant.

Nick · Feb 24, 2025

Loved the Paradise recommendation, I think @Otis. Annoyed I can't binge it, though, It's 2025.

Otis · Feb 24, 2025

Nick said:
Loved the Paradise recommendation, I think @Otis. Annoyed I can't binge it, though, It's 2025.

Yup. Twas me.

Very good. Isn't it

Nick · Feb 24, 2025

Otis said:
Yup. Twas me.

Very good. Isn't it

Decent soundtrack too.

mmttww · Feb 25, 2025

This has been a great short series. Love Copa90.

Otis · Feb 25, 2025

Nick said:
Loved the Paradise recommendation, I think @Otis. Annoyed I can't binge it, though, It's 2025.

The latest episode, out today, I thought was especially outstanding.

Sbarcher · Feb 26, 2025

Late, but just binge-watched Black Doves.
Pretty good and set me up nicely for Gangs of London S3 out next month.

ProfessorbyGrace · Mar 9, 2025

Come and See (1985). It’s by no means a traditional ‘movie’, more of a 2 hour microcosm of what WWII looked like for Belarusians.

Be warned, it isn’t for the faint hearted.

Farmer Jim · Mar 9, 2025

Watched a few over the last week.

In no particular order :

Breaking ( just dropped on Netflix )

John Boyega is sensational in the lead, as the film depicts an ex Gulf War veteran, who takes two bank clerks hostage, as a protest at his treatment by the Army Veterans Association.

Based on a true story, no special effects or CGI, just good honest film making.

The Infernal Machine ( Film4 )

A really strange film, in that Guy Pearce is spellbinding in the lead, but the film is absolute rubbish !

Pearce plays a reclusive English author ( his Northern accent is spot on ), who has dropped out and is living off grid somewhere by the US / Mexico border and is being stalked / menaced by what appears to be a super fan.

Despite Pearce`s stellar efforts, the film somehow manages to be flat, dull and boring until the very last part of the and by then it`s too late to save it.

Nightmare Alley ( another on Film4 )

Guilermo del Torro doesn`t make many duds, but this is a shocker.

The Film follows a fairground grifter masquerading as a clairvoyant, as he cons his way into the big time.

An amazing cast, inc Cate Blanchard, Bradley Cooper and Willem Dafoe, beautiful sets and cinematography, everything you`d expect from a del Torro film ?

Wrong, it`s at three hours it`s a at least an hour too long, the first part of the film is good, the middle part non existent and dull and the film picks up again towards the end.

Deserves to be done again, but properly.

I Saw The TV Glow. ( streamed )

This was recommended to me by a mate.

All I can say, is that it`s a film you`ll either enjoy or hate, no middle ground, as it`s so weird.

A young lad, who`s a social misfit, finds escape with another young misfit, in a weird and trippy late night TV show, which eventually takes control of their lives.

The film is a social comment on being an outsider / not accepted, due to being different.

It`s a film I can see as ending up as cult classic one day.

The Dampyr ( just dropped on Netlfix )

Set in the Balkans during the recent war. A group of Vampires are picking off villagers and soldiers at will.

Up steps The Dampyr, half human, half vampire to do battle with them.

It watches very much like a B movie, with English and American actors playing Eastern European parts and the icing on the cake, is the normally impeccable David Morrisey playing the " king vampire "

It`s a film I`d watch if I had a hangover and didn`t want to move off the couch for 1.30hrs, whilst I get my head back together.

Mcbean · Mar 9, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
Watched a few over the last week.

In no particular order :

Breaking ( just dropped on Netflix )

John Boyega is sensational in the lead, as the film depicts an ex Gulf War veteran, who takes two bank clerks hostage, as a protest at his treatment by the Army Veterans Association.

Based on a true story, no special effects or CGI, just good honest film making.

The Infernal Machine ( Film4 )

A really strange film, in that Guy Pearce is spellbinding in the lead, but the film is absolute rubbish !

Pearce plays a reclusive English author ( his Northern accent is spot on ), who has dropped out and is living off grid somewhere by the US / Mexico border and is being stalked / menaced by what appears to be a super fan.

Despite Pearce`s stellar efforts, the film somehow manages to be flat, dull and boring until the very last part of the and by then it`s too late to save it.

Nightmare Alley ( another on Film4 )

Guilermo del Torro doesn`t make many duds, but this is a shocker.

The Film follows a fairground grifter masquerading as a clairvoyant, as he cons his way into the big time.

An amazing cast, inc Cate Blanchard, Bradley Cooper and Willem Dafoe, beautiful sets and cinematography, everything you`d expect from a del Torro film ?

Wrong, it`s at three hours it`s a at least an hour too long, the first part of the film is good, the middle part non existent and dull and the film picks up again towards the end.

Deserves to be done again, but properly.

I Saw The TV Glow. ( streamed )

This was recommended to me by a mate.

All I can say, is that it`s a film you`ll either enjoy or hate, no middle ground, as it`s so weird.

A young lad, who`s a social misfit, finds escape with another young misfit, in a weird and trippy late night TV show, which eventually takes control of their lives.

The film is a social comment on being an outsider / not accepted, due to being different.

It`s a film I can see as ending up as cult classic one day.

The Dampyr ( just dropped on Netlfix )

Set in the Balkans during the recent war. A group of Vampires are picking off villagers and soldiers at will.

Up steps The Dampyr, half human, half vampire to do battle with them.

It watches very much like a B movie, with English and American actors playing Eastern European parts and the icing on the cake, is the normally impeccable David Morrisey playing the " king vampire "

It`s a film I`d watch if I had a hangover and didn`t want to move off the couch for 1.30hrs, whilst I get my head back together.

Thanks for the reviews it helps to prioritise when the wife is disappearing to bed with a headache

SBT · Mar 9, 2025

I Saw The TV Glow didn’t quite land for me. I appreciated the Lynch references but the weirdness felt a bit forced to me. Supposedly it was a transgender allegory which clearly I totally missed.

Anora was good fun but I wouldn’t recommend watching it on a plane like I did.

Captain Dart · Mar 9, 2025

Farmer Jim said:
Watched a few over the last week.

In no particular order :

Breaking ( just dropped on Netflix )

John Boyega is sensational in the lead, as the film depicts an ex Gulf War veteran, who takes two bank clerks hostage, as a protest at his treatment by the Army Veterans Association.

Based on a true story, no special effects or CGI, just good honest film making.

The Infernal Machine ( Film4 )

A really strange film, in that Guy Pearce is spellbinding in the lead, but the film is absolute rubbish !

Pearce plays a reclusive English author ( his Northern accent is spot on ), who has dropped out and is living off grid somewhere by the US / Mexico border and is being stalked / menaced by what appears to be a super fan.

Despite Pearce`s stellar efforts, the film somehow manages to be flat, dull and boring until the very last part of the and by then it`s too late to save it.

Nightmare Alley ( another on Film4 )

Guilermo del Torro doesn`t make many duds, but this is a shocker.

The Film follows a fairground grifter masquerading as a clairvoyant, as he cons his way into the big time.

An amazing cast, inc Cate Blanchard, Bradley Cooper and Willem Dafoe, beautiful sets and cinematography, everything you`d expect from a del Torro film ?

Wrong, it`s at three hours it`s a at least an hour too long, the first part of the film is good, the middle part non existent and dull and the film picks up again towards the end.

Deserves to be done again, but properly.

I Saw The TV Glow. ( streamed )

This was recommended to me by a mate.

All I can say, is that it`s a film you`ll either enjoy or hate, no middle ground, as it`s so weird.

A young lad, who`s a social misfit, finds escape with another young misfit, in a weird and trippy late night TV show, which eventually takes control of their lives.

The film is a social comment on being an outsider / not accepted, due to being different.

It`s a film I can see as ending up as cult classic one day.

The Dampyr ( just dropped on Netlfix )

Set in the Balkans during the recent war. A group of Vampires are picking off villagers and soldiers at will.

Up steps The Dampyr, half human, half vampire to do battle with them.

It watches very much like a B movie, with English and American actors playing Eastern European parts and the icing on the cake, is the normally impeccable David Morrisey playing the " king vampire "

It`s a film I`d watch if I had a hangover and didn`t want to move off the couch for 1.30hrs, whilst I get my head back together.

Feels very much like an avoid at all costs list to me.

Farmer Jim · Mar 9, 2025

Captain Dart said:
Feels very much like an avoid at all costs list to me.

If I was going to pick one out of all of them to watch, it`d be Breaking.

Sky_Blue_Daz · Mar 11, 2025

Just caught the latest episode of the righteous gemstones , loved the idea of a standalone episode with a new character

Mr Panda · Mar 11, 2025

Not usually one for animated series and haven't ever read source material, but Invincible is very good.

Near enough 100% rotten tomatoes for 3 seasons so far.

shmmeee · Mar 11, 2025

Mr Panda said:
Not usually one for animated series and haven't ever read source material, but Invincible is very good.

Near enough 100% rotten tomatoes for 3 seasons so far.

It’s very good. So well acted.

Mr Panda · Mar 11, 2025

shmmeee said:
It’s very good. So well acted.

I'm late to the party but have seen so much content on it I thought I'd give it a go. Really impresses me how deep some of the characters are, surprises me being animated

bulko · Mar 11, 2025

the agency is a good series.

AOM · Mar 11, 2025

New series of Daredevil out on Disney+. Doesn't feel as gritty as the Netflix series, but the first two episodes are still decent

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