Simple Jack Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Song of the Bandits - Korean spaghetti western set in the China/Korean borderlands in the wake of the Japanese annexation. Think "The Water Margin" meets "The Wild Bunch". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddam Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 The Reckoning. Pretty uncomfortable viewing in places but really well put together, the cast are amazing but Coogan's performance is absolutely incredible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushdoc Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 The coming war with China. John Pilger from 2016 on Netflix. Watched it before but the Mrs hadn't seen it, the Marshall islanders plight was an eye opener, a hiroshima every day for 12 years. Imagine that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddam Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 Radio Bikini is another interesting but ultimately depressing as fuck documentary, if you can find it. @bushdoc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushdoc Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 Think I'll give myself a few days but will look into it. @Saddam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddam Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 It's on YouTube but the quality's awful if you're watching on a large screen. @bushdoc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 "The Reckoning" BBC1...DocuDrama starring Steve Cougan Watched the second part of four last night...what an evil nasty kiddy (and corpse) fiddling cunt Jimmy Savil was. Cougan does a great job of portraying his slimy character and mannerisms ...sickenly awful but compulsive viewing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddam Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Frasier 2023. Poorly written, predictable and somewhat nauseating. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 (edited) Watched The Reckoning. Steve Cougan is chillingly good, but I'm not sure about the actual progamme, didn't really offer much insight, seemed mostly surface to me (and I'm sure there was much more to how he was able to cover up so much up for so long). Stated watching The Long Shadow. So far it's good, respectfully done and not sensationalist (unlike the recentish Netflix drama about Jeffrey Dahmer, which I thought was horribly exploitative and voyeuristic, though that's hardly suprising since it was ceated by Ryan Murphy ). The contrast between the two is stark, The Long Shadow is how to do a TV drama about a serial killer, Netflix's Dahmer is how not to. Edited October 12, 2023 by Boojum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddam Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 20 hours ago, stu914 said: Steve Cougan 1 hour ago, Boojum said: Steve Cougan Why is everyone spelling his name like that? Am I missing something? Paul Calf says 'fucking students' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashslag Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Just watched the first two The Reckoning as well. Coogan's portrayal is so fucking accurate, he's really nailed it from what I can tell. Even the way he sits in his chair when being interviewed. Quite amazing acting tbh. It's a difficult watch at times, and Savile really does make your skin crawl. What a disgusting piece of shit he truly was. I think it's a compelling series so far. I'm not sure how much more they could show about how he got away with dong what he did - it's pretty clear to me and also very simple - he was a master manipulator of people. People simply didn't believe he could do any wrong. They thought he was a saint. Except the people who really knew what he was doing, or had suspicions. The majority of the country loved the cunt. Me included. As a kid, I was desperate to go on Jim'll Fix It. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boojum Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Saddam said: Why is everyone spelling his name like that? Am I missing something? Paul Calf says 'fucking students' Brainfart. I think I was just typing on autopilot, kinda like autocorrect, the coo/cou sound just automatically came out cou even though I know it's spelld Coogan (kinda like how I often spell weird with the ie the wrong way round cos I just automatically type ie since that's the usual way round) Bag of shite Edited October 12, 2023 by Boojum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu914 Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 3 hours ago, Saddam said: Why is everyone spelling his name like that? Am I missing something? Just shows how much attention I've given to his name spelling, little to none... At least I've given you something to do Sads mate...and you get to correct me...so don't make no mistakes in the future bud... (Hope you like the double negative...fecking grates doesn't it? ...) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaunx Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 Top Boy. If you enjoyed The Wire you'll love this. Similar street dealing type plot and has the same gritty realism and intensity with great character development. set in Hackney with the Wire's Baltimore street dialect replaced by an equally dense London-Caribbean one (subtitles are useful for the first few episodes till you pick it up) Seasons 1 and 2 have only 4 episodes each and I think were pretty low budget at the time in 2011 on channel 4. Netflix then revived it in 2019 and it really takes off from that point. The series was recently concluded with season 5. Note that on Netflix, seasons 1 and 2 appear under the title "Top Boy: Summerhouse", and seasons 3,4 and 5 appear as "Top Boy" 1,2 and 3, presumably so that Netflix can claim it as "a Netflix Original", which it isn't. You can certainly pick it up from 3 but I'd recommend starting with the original 1 and 2 for the early character development. Just binged all 5 seasons. Brilliant. Better than The Wire IMHO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Badgeley Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 On 11/10/2023 at 6:06 PM, stu914 said: "The Reckoning" BBC1...DocuDrama starring Steve Cougan Watched the second part of four last night...what an evil nasty kiddy (and corpse) fiddling cunt Jimmy Savil was. Cougan does a great job of portraying his slimy character and mannerisms ...sickenly awful but compulsive viewing. Watched 3 of them last evening. Sometimes Coogan reminded me of Paul Calf. Top stuff. "Now then now then". A manipulative and evil cunt. The Pope, Snatcher, Big Ears and Di, everyone for his means. I play golf with someone who knew Savile's Lacky in the 60's. Says he was an ugly twat who was under Savile's spell. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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