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Best TV shows or movies you can recommend (4 Viewers)

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Nick

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  • Sep 26, 2025
  • #4,656
Ccfcisparks said:
one battle after another

film of the year, one of the films of the decade
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Is that the di caprio one?
 

Farmer Jim

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  • Sep 28, 2025
  • #4,657
Ccfcisparks said:
one battle after another

film of the year, one of the films of the decade
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Went to see it last night and I agree with you,it was brilliant and the trailers really didn`t do it justice.

Considering it was 2hrs 40mins long, there was no point in the film where I became bored and switched off.

Dicaprio was his usual effortlessly brilliant self, with a terrific supporting cast and in particular Sean Penn, as the crazie Colonel Lockjaw, who was a massive pisstake send up of RFK Junior.

Completely in tune with what`s going on in Trumps America at the moment and took massive, yet subtle swipes at ICE and Trump, without naming him.

Well worthy of all the praise it`s getting and a shoe in for a bag full of awards.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Sep 28, 2025
  • #4,658
Farmer Jim said:
Went to see it last night and I agree with you,it was brilliant and the trailers really didn`t do it justice.

Considering it was 2hrs 40mins long, there was no point in the film where I became bored and switched off.

Dicaprio was his usual effortlessly brilliant self, with a terrific supporting cast and in particular Sean Penn, as the crazie Colonel Lockjaw, who was a massive pisstake send up of RFK Junior.

Completely in tune with what`s going on in Trumps America at the moment and took massive, yet subtle swipes at ICE and Trump, without naming him.

Well worthy of all the praise it`s getting and a shoe in for a bag full of awards.
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Thought Del Toro was wonderful in it too.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Sep 28, 2025
  • #4,659
Farmer Jim said:
Went to see it last night and I agree with you,it was brilliant and the trailers really didn`t do it justice.

Considering it was 2hrs 40mins long, there was no point in the film where I became bored and switched off.

Dicaprio was his usual effortlessly brilliant self, with a terrific supporting cast and in particular Sean Penn, as the crazie Colonel Lockjaw, who was a massive pisstake send up of RFK Junior.

Completely in tune with what`s going on in Trumps America at the moment and took massive, yet subtle swipes at ICE and Trump, without naming him.

Well worthy of all the praise it`s getting and a shoe in for a bag full of awards.
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Might have take it in on your guidance
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Sep 29, 2025
  • #4,660
Dead man’s shoes is on film4 at 10:50 tonight if anyone’s not seen it
 
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Yank

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  • Sep 30, 2025
  • #4,661
Finally caught up with Sister Boniface. Its a spinoff of Father Brown and tbh I enjoy it more, just like the characters and not that enthused with the new ones on FB.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Sep 30, 2025
  • #4,662
Enjoying Tulsa King
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 1, 2025
  • #4,663
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
Enjoying Tulsa King
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Yeah. It is regurgitating scenarios to be honest, but they are pulling it off and it's still very enjoyable
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Oct 3, 2025
  • #4,664
The Black Rabbit - Netflix.

Strange one this, as it had all the ingredients to be a good series, but it`s very average, to borderline rubbish.

Directed by Laura Linney, produced by and starring Jason Bateman, so you think the writing would be good.

It just feels like a poor attempt to mimic Ozarks, with some very sub standard camera work and a bad script.

Jude Law does his best, but even he can`t save it.

One to watch when you`ve got nothing else to watch.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 3, 2025
  • #4,665
Farmer Jim said:
The Black Rabbit - Netflix.

Strange one this, as it had all the ingredients to be a good series, but it`s very average, to borderline rubbish.

Directed by Laura Linney, produced by and starring Jason Bateman, so you think the writing would be good.

It just feels like a poor attempt to mimic Ozarks, with some very sub standard camera work and a bad script.

Jude Law does his best, but even he can`t save it.

One to watch when you`ve got nothing else to watch.
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I was hoping it would be as good as Ozark but it's just...not.

Goes on for way too long.
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Oct 3, 2025
  • #4,666
Nick said:
I was hoping it would be as good as Ozark but it's just...not.

Goes on for way too long.
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It`s dull and you don`t care about any of the characters at all.

Plus Jason Bateman is badly miscast in his role as the grungy low life slacker.

It`s a lazy reprisal of Marty from Ozarks, but who needs a good scrub.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Oct 3, 2025
  • #4,667
Watched the first episode of How are you ? Its Alan partridge . Loved the scene with sidekick simon
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 3, 2025
  • #4,668
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
Watched the first episode of How are you ? Its Alan partridge . Loved the scene with sidekick simon
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I already can't wait! Been waiting for this since it was announced last year
 
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Otis

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  • Oct 3, 2025
  • #4,669
Farmer Jim said:
The Black Rabbit - Netflix.

Strange one this, as it had all the ingredients to be a good series, but it`s very average, to borderline rubbish.

Directed by Laura Linney, produced by and starring Jason Bateman, so you think the writing would be good.

It just feels like a poor attempt to mimic Ozarks, with some very sub standard camera work and a bad script.

Jude Law does his best, but even he can`t save it.

One to watch when you`ve got nothing else to watch.
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Love Jason Bateman too, but there's little to work with and it just gets overdrawn.

Would have benefitted tremendously if they have chopped it down by two episodes or so.
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Oct 4, 2025
  • #4,670
Steve - Netflix.

Starring and directed by Cillian Murphy.

This really won`t be for everyone, as it`s just bleak, unforgiving and very deep.

Set in the mid 90`s, Cillian Murphy, plays " Steve " the head of a reform school that`s on it`s arse, understaffed, chronically underfunded ( what`s new ? ) and with pupils who are more like wild animals than people.

The film covers 24 hrs at the school, as Murphy struggles with his own personal demons, whilst trying to keep the staff and the boys together.

I haven`t read the book it`s based on - Shy ( the name of one of the boys ) so I don`t know how faithful it is to the book, but Murphy is excellent and very believable, with a very strong supporting cast, inc Emily Watson and Tracy Ullman.

It`s real " thinking " film, I watched it with my missus, who fell asleep ( you have to bear in mind her favourite film is Dirty Dancing ! ), so I can safely say many will find it boring, but if you like a serious well put together film, this is for you.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 4, 2025
  • #4,671
Farmer Jim said:
Steve - Netflix.

Starring and directed by Cillian Murphy.

This really won`t be for everyone, as it`s just bleak, unforgiving and very deep.

Set in the mid 90`s, Cillian Murphy, plays " Steve " the head of a reform school that`s on it`s arse, understaffed, chronically underfunded ( what`s new ? ) and with pupils who are more like wild animals than people.

The film covers 24 hrs at the school, as Murphy struggles with his own personal demons, whilst trying to keep the staff and the boys together.

I haven`t read the book it`s based on - Shy ( the name of one of the boys ) so I don`t know how faithful it is to the book, but Murphy is excellent and very believable, with a very strong supporting cast, inc Emily Watson and Tracy Ullman.

It`s real " thinking " film, I watched it with my missus, who fell asleep ( you have to bear in mind her favourite film is Dirty Dancing ! ), so I can safely say many will find it boring, but if you like a serious well put together film, this is for you.
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Dirty dancing is decent though.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Oct 5, 2025
  • #4,672
Watched the strangers chapter 2 last night. Probably the worst film I've watched this year.

Gonna watch Smashing Machine some time this week.
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Oct 5, 2025
  • #4,673
Ccfcisparks said:
Watched the strangers chapter 2 last night. Probably the worst film I've watched this year.

Gonna watch Smashing Machine some time this week.
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Went to see The Smashing Machine last night.

Dwayne Johnson is just fantastic as Mark Kerr and if some had said to you five years ago, that Emily Blunt would be playing support to The Rock, you`d have laughed in their face.

it`s as much about his out of the ring life, as it is about him in the ring.

The only tiny criticism from me, would be that real life MMA fighter, Ryan Baeder, who plays his best mate and fellow fighter, Mark Coleman is a bit wooden - but so was Johnson when he first started.

But apart from that, it`s a wonderful film and Johnson has to be in the running for an Oscar.
 

Terry_dactyl

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  • Oct 5, 2025
  • #4,674
I watched Caught Stealing last night. I’d seen the trailers in the cinema and thought it looked absolute shite.
Not as shite as I thought it would be. Daft but entertaining.
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,675
Ccfcisparks said:
Watched the strangers chapter 2 last night. Probably the worst film I've watched this year.

Gonna watch Smashing Machine some time this week.
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The first Strangers film in this current trilogy was also really poor I thought.
The only good Strangers film was the original. They seem to have run out of ideas
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,676
A few episodes into Monsters: The Ed Gein Story on Netflix.
Meh, I liked the earlier American Horror Story series, but finding anything by Ryan Murphy and co nowadays pretty tiring and more edgy than it needs to be. Wouldn't really bother
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,677
AOM said:
A few episodes into Monsters: The Ed Gein Story on Netflix.
Meh, I liked the earlier American Horror Story series, but finding anything by Ryan Murphy and co nowadays pretty tiring and more edgy than it needs to be. Wouldn't really bother
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I`m pretty much the same with this tbh.

I can`t fathom why Charlie Hunnam is so ripped to play Gein, as the real Gein was a weedy nobody ?
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,678
Farmer Jim said:
I`m pretty much the same with this tbh.

I can`t fathom why Charlie Hunnam is so ripped to play Gein, as the real Gein was a weedy nobody ?
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Yeah, I knew I recognised him from somewhere as soon as it started! Didn't realise it was Green Street

The writers always seem obsessed with making these serial killers weird sex symbols. It was the same with Evan Peters in Dahmer
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,679
AOM said:
Yeah, I knew I recognised him from somewhere as soon as it started! Didn't realise it was Green Street

The writers always seem obsessed with making these serial killers weird sex symbols. It was the same with Evan Peters in Dahmer
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It makes a mockery and devalues the whole thing and it`s also offensive to the families of the victims.

If you`re going to have someone portray a serial killer, at lease try and keep it as close to the facts as you can, like they did with Cameron Britton`s superb portrayal of Ed Kemper in Mindhunter.
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,680
Farmer Jim said:
It makes a mockery and devalues the whole thing and it`s also offensive to the families of the victims.

If you`re going to have someone portray a serial killer, at lease try and keep it as close to the facts as you can, like they did with Cameron Britton`s superb portrayal of Ed Kemper in Mindhunter.
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My thoughts as well. I'm not that familiar with the real case, but all the added concentration camp vision scenes felt a bit unnecessary and forced.

Massively agree with Mindhunter. I still think it's the best thing Netflix have put out, and it was such a shame they didn't commission a third series.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Oct 6, 2025
  • #4,681
5 of the 6 new Partridge episodes in and it's largely an excuse to do a TV version of From The Oasthouse. (This is a very good thing)
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Oct 7, 2025
  • #4,682
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ajsccfc said:
5 of the 6 new Partridge episodes in and it's largely an excuse to do a TV version of From The Oasthouse. (This is a very good thing)
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Do you think another series of I'm Alan Partridge could work ?
 

ajsccfc

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  • Oct 7, 2025
  • #4,683
Probably would but I hope they don't go back to that to be honest. I thought the first series was perfect but the second was a bit broad and wacky, after they brought the character back I love how it's worked in so many different ways since.
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 8, 2025
  • #4,684
ajsccfc said:
5 of the 6 new Partridge episodes in and it's largely an excuse to do a TV version of From The Oasthouse. (This is a very good thing)
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I thought it was really good. Wish they released one a week though as I've already finished it.

I think Mid Morning Matters is still my favourite Alan Partridge series though
 
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AOM

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  • Oct 8, 2025
  • #4,685
Went to see Good Boy last night, a horror film from the perspective of a dog.
It's been getting rave reviews and the dog is brilliant in it, but I thought the film itself was a bit average.
 

Nick

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  • Oct 8, 2025
  • #4,686
AOM said:
Went to see Good Boy last night, a horror film from the perspective of a dog.
It's been getting rave reviews and the dog is brilliant in it, but I thought the film itself was a bit average.
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Do any dogs die in it? If so, not for me.
 

AOM

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  • Oct 8, 2025
  • #4,687
Nick said:
Do any dogs die in it? If so, not for me.
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Spoilers!
No, the main character dog doesn't die in it, but there is a full skeleton of an older dog that died in the past shown. It is quite a depressing film overall tbh.

Apparently in the US, there is a mid credit scene where they show how it was filmed which I wanted to see, but it was cut from UK releases
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Oct 9, 2025
  • #4,688
Well then , this could be very special

 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 14, 2025
  • #4,689
AOM said:
Went to see Good Boy last night, a horror film from the perspective of a dog.
It's been getting rave reviews and the dog is brilliant in it, but I thought the film itself was a bit average.
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If you liked that, you'd really enjoy 'Cujo' by Stephen King which was also turned into a film and enters the mind of a dog that gets infected with rabies.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Oct 14, 2025
  • #4,690
Interesting to see another film on the Nuremberg trials, I think 30 years after the last one which had Alec Baldwin and Brian Cox. Casting Russell Crowe as Goering seems...unusual

 
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