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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.

HARVEY T DENTON wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:32 am Gomorrah season 4. After the Repair Shop its the best thing on tv.

jamespevans wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:10 pm

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.

I'm the bore who always corrects people when they refer to something being a Catch-22. Read a Guardian article yesterday and it turns our that Heller was even worse than me. Still remember the moment late in the book when something I thought had happened hadn't happened (trying to avoid spoilers here) and the punch the air feeling associated with it.

Constanza wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:53 pm Have finished Gomorrah. Took me till the end of Series 1 to get into it but then I was hooked. I am a sucker for this type of stuff- Sopranos, the Wire, Love Hate, Narcos etc which is amazing as I have never taken any drugs in my life.
To anyone who hasn't seen it all i would say is don't get too attached to any character.
Loved the music at the end of each episode- i imagine it in my head each time I enter my bosses office.
Its a 10/10 for me.

Other current favourites are Queer Eye, Gameface and This Way Up.

slacker wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:09 pm Plenty of good stuff on the Beeb right now. Enjoyed the camp Dracula 3-parter, and think the Chrissie Keeler/Profumo Affair series is well done from the “girls” perspective.

But the best thing on is the Storyville: Jonestown 2-part documentary on bbc4/iplayer. Using loads of contemporary audio & video footage, and interviews with defectors/survivors, it was both fascinating and terrifying study in demagoguery and how cult members can slide from a utopian community vision to a brainwashed nightmare situation.

I knew the headlines of the story (the deaths of 900 odd in 1978 at the Guyana commune by “revolutionary suicide”) and the pedantically wrong “drinking the kool-aid” quip that came from it, but that was it. Shame so many post-hippy communes turned sour. I’d highly recommend viewing this WTF! one.

And then there’s The Masked Singer on itv Pretty good-but-crap teatime tv, despite the usual stringing-things-out and the irritating presence of Davina McCall.

Prestige Worldwide wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 4:40 pm Yorkshire ripper docu series on iplayer- what an awful time to be alive, shocking police work.

slacker wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:09 pm

But the best thing on is the Storyville: Jonestown 2-part documentary on bbc4/iplayer. Using loads of contemporary audio & video footage, and interviews with defectors/survivors, it was both fascinating and terrifying study in demagoguery and how cult members can slide from a utopian community vision to a brainwashed nightmare situation.

I knew the headlines of the story (the deaths of 900 odd in 1978 at the Guyana commune by “revolutionary suicide”) and the pedantically wrong “drinking the kool-aid” quip that came from it, but that was it. Shame so many post-hippy communes turned sour. I’d highly recommend viewing this WTF! one.

Real Al wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:56 pm Just watched Mrs Lowry and Son on Netflix.

Not the most exciting film, but Vanessa Redgrave and Tim Spalls put in suberb acting performances.

StillSpike wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 8:39 am Giri Haji was quite fun, if occasionally a little odd.