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Finished Succession over the weekend. Excellent ending, some real turns which never actually felt overly ludicrous (possibly because all the characters are all kind of ludicrous already, but still).

Top Boy next. I'm a series ahead so will have to see if I'm made to watch that again first before I dive in.

Also watched the first ep of No Activity on iPlayer, an earlier comedy from the couple behind the excellent Colin from Accounts. 7/10, will watch the rest.

Watching Gaslit, a Watergate thing. Is excellent.

Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.

Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.

Don't know much about the Norwegian campaign other than from The Heroes of Telemark, remember watching it during the school holidays way back when, then also doing so again at Uni. Good yarn.

Slight tangent but pretty sure my Granddad got the Arctic Star from when he was on the merchant navy convoys. There was a documentary by Jeremy Clarkson about them, PQ17, which was really good (he's still a pr!ck, but he presented this really well) and the general conditions, even apart from this particular disaster, sounded absolutely hellish. Was repeated on BBC4 recently so probably knocking about on iPlayer.

Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.

Indeed they are. I've been binging on Vikings Valhalla over the weekend. Plenty of choppin, stabin and pumping. Great stuff.

Watched the 2 part "Crime of the Century" the other night. It's a doc about the opiate crisis in the States and how, essentially it was created through greed, fraud and corruption (with a healthy slice of laziness/stupidity thrown in - but mainly corruption).

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:05 pm

Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.

Indeed they are. I've been binging on Vikings Valhalla over the weekend. Plenty of choppin, stabin and pumping. Great stuff.

Did you have an enormous horn Maxie or just a plain flaccid helmet?

Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:01 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:05 pm

Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.

Indeed they are. I've been binging on Vikings Valhalla over the weekend. Plenty of choppin, stabin and pumping. Great stuff.

Did you have an enormous horn Maxie or just a plain flaccid helmet?

Yes but I was being sarcastic. Its actually pish.

Well l never.

Succession- which character is Lachlan Murdoch?

Bbc says Roman

He also wanked over his office window?

Guy Ritchie's Covenent- afghan war thriller that lacks in thrills and just a bit too dumb. 6

Worth- a lawyer has to work out the monetary value of lives lost in 9/11. Just not dramatic or interesting enough sadly. 6

Finished Top Boy, satisfactory ending.

Currently engrossed by Once Upon a time in Northern Ireland and looking forward to the new series of Bake Off.

Last night I watched Alone in Berlin, with Brendan Gleeson and a surprisingly good Emma Thomson

I thought it was brilliant - the sense of terror in wartime Berlin was very well done, I thought.

Just watched a short documentary‘Hawaiian Hammers’ on West Ham, Chan London Live, was interesting enough.

How To Blow Up A Pipeline- lacking the instructions promised in the title and much thrills. Also, i couldn't help but think they'd probably just rebuild it in a few weeks.

New Pete Doherty-who killed my son ?

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:29 pm I have recorded Catch 22 and will watch it tonight. I'd be insane not to.

This is one of my favourite books of all time which I read when I was 17. The Mike Nichols film of the 70s was such a disappointment. Alan Arkin wasn't a very good Yossarian and was no match for the character I had built up in my head.

I can still remember the night it was on the telly and leaving my girlfriend 's to go home early to watch it with my old man.

Alan Arkin is one of my favourite actors and I thought the film was good but having not read the book can understand why you found it a disappointment. Then again I find that most films from books are often so. I must get round ti reading Catch 22.

Apparently Christopher Nolan is in discussions to write and direct two period-piece Bond films. I'm up for that.

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:18 am Apparently Christopher Nolan is in discussions to write and direct two period-piece Bond films. I'm up for that.

It will be a farrago of assininity.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:22 am

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:18 am Apparently Christopher Nolan is in discussions to write and direct two period-piece Bond films. I'm up for that.

It will be a farrago of assininity.

That's my favourite kind of farrago.

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:28 am

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:22 am

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:18 am Apparently Christopher Nolan is in discussions to write and direct two period-piece Bond films. I'm up for that.

It will be a farrago of assininity.

That's my favourite kind of farrago.

Really? I thought it was imbecility you liked best.

Who Killed Jan Dildo? 3 part Netflix documentary. Nothing new here, just a brief summary of the case. Spoiler: they dont know who killed TVs Princess Diana.

Just finished watching the 1992 film "The Lawnmower Man", it's about what happens to a man with a chiids mind, subjected to virtual reality,. For a thirty one year old film the special effects are fantastic.