One of the advantages of Alzheimer’s is that you can hide your own Easter eggs A second is that you get to meet new people everyday A third is that you can hide you own Easter eggs. With thanks to John Cooper Clarke
Binge watching ‘Save Me/Save Me Too’. Great stuff and has 2 of my favourite actors, Lennie James and Stephen Graham giving strong gritty performances. Worth a watch
I’d recommend it mate. A gritty disturbing subject and these 2 really make it for me. Not fast paced but very enjoyable drama.
Gonna finish it tonight then start on ‘Gangs of London’ later or tomorrow. Heard good things about it. Love the way Sky release all episodes early on boxset....makes it very easy to watch enjoyable dramas
Did you watch The Virtues, with Stephen Graham - channel 4 I think. Very grim, gritty and quite a disturbing performance by him as someone on the edge of a mental breakdown as he deals with the demons of his past. Not happy viewing, but compelling at the same time. I've just read through the last few pages of this fine thread, and think I should just clarify that I don't spend all my spare time sat binge watching box-sets (it seems that I've watched a lot!). For the last four years I've spent a lot of time working away from home, mostly on my own, sat in hotel rooms with **** all to do except watch stuff people recommend. Thankfully landed a new contract in January and have been home every night, much to the missus' delight! TV is hardly on as I've so much **** to do in the house etc, in fact the TV hasn't been on all weekend......I'd be lost without Spotify though
I didn’t see The Virtues but heard it was very good. Graham truly is one of the best actors for those kind for on the edge, brooding’ characters...he plays them so well. There is just so much good stuff around I wish I had more time to watch it.
Gangs of London........so brilliantly violent that Stans Mrs would be shielding her eyes in horror.....definitely not family entertainment for the Sb household. A must watch
Just when I think each episode has reached the pinnacle of violence....the next one raises the bar....
I have seen 3 episodes and Gangs of London and it is fab (and not just because my stuntman mate has the best fight in it?) The fight scenes are really 2nd to none. A cross between a John Woo movie and the violence of the film 'Scum'. The only thing that gets a bit confusing is working out who is who?
My daughter is streaming a documentary called The Mum who got Tourette’s. Tourette’s is a serious neurological condition that shouldn’t be taken lightly. However, this programme is hysterically funny, a family dealing with the onset of Tourette’s in the 50 year old mother. These people are brilliant, really putting things in perspective and just getting on with it. The father just says ‘well it is funny when she yells ‘****ing ****’ in John Lewis’. And the mum is just brilliantly funny even without the Tourette’s. At first you feel a bit guilty laughing, but then you realise that you are laughing with them. The son, who developed Tourette’s when he was 13 (it’s genetic) got it under control and got through his GCSE’s, finishing with a talk about his condition in front of 400 pupils. Two years earlier he was such a bag of twitches and shouting that he couldn’t write his own name. As his mum said at the end of the programme ‘cue uplifting ****ing music and a view of a field’. On All4 I think.
‘Once upon a time in Hollywood’.... Think someone mentioned it before on here and must say it was far better than I expected. A long film at over 2 and half hours but I really liked it. Helps to have a good background knowledge of the Sharon Tate murders and the stars of the time (clever reference to the Natalie Wood drowning that could be missed) Worth a watch.
I mentioned it on another thread but might of been missed. Just finished watching ‘Britain’s Greatest Generation’, a 4 part series on BBC2, looking at the lives and times of a generation that we are rapidly losing. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad but ultimately inspiring. I didn’t realise what a wonderful guy Brian Rix was.....well worth watching.
I really enjoyed that - cheers. Not the happiest of viewing, and you'd have to be a cold hearted bastard to not get a tear in your eye at some points. Very informative - knew there was some bad **** going down under Franco, but the sheer scale of it is horrifying, an the refusal of the Spanish authorities to face up to it is pretty poor.
Good switch of threads! Yes, it’s easy to forget that people were being tortured well into the 1970s. The courage and patience of the victims was/is incredible and very moving. The Spanish, or most of them, have completely repressed these memories. My brothers kids, who were born and brought up in Madrid, know much less than I do about it. It’s remarkable that passing a law saying ‘we’re going to forget the last forty years’ can actually make a nation forget.
