Off Topic The Review Thread

Pretty sure not.

It was supposed to be last summer, outdoor gig - wifey was gutted

 

This bloke's a pal of mine. Went to Cardinal Hinsley school in Harlesden and used to drink in the Green Man....

Exclusive: Square Mile veteran Joe Nally looks back on 45 years in the City - CityAM : CityAM

'Always make time for a good lunch and never buy cheap Claret!'

 

Kids just sent upstairs to bed and settling down to watch ‘Train To Busan presents Peninsula’.
Anyone who watched the first one will hopefully like the second instalment (if you count the animation prequel ‘Seoul Station’ as a third (even though it came out second)

You’ve gotta love a Korean zombie flick

 

First one was brilliant. Korea and Japan do the best horror/psyxhological thrillers IMO

 

30 minutes into the Sky Documentry Bruno Vs Tyson. For anyone who has an interest in boxing it’s a must watch.

 

Tears rolling down my face as Midlands Today local news chooses to illustrate Jess Phillips’ reference to ‘promise of hard hats and shovels’ referring to the budget with 5 seconds of footage of a man with a hard hat and a spade digging a ditch. Brilliant, straight from The Day Today. The programme already benefits from being presented by the ancient Nick Owen, clearly one of the many inspirations for Alan Partridge.

 

Good news for all - Storyville is back on BBC4. Watched some of it last night, investigative team trying to trace $$billions of Gaddafis money that he flew out of the country prior to the Arab Spring. There's a lot of it in South Africa....

There's a load of episodes available on iPlayer, but for those who haven't seen it, this one is a must watch...

Storyville, Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjöld: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000bpkm via @bbciplayer

Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than the murder of the secretary-general of the United Nations.

In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and most of the crew. With the case still unsolved over 50 years later, Danish journalist, film-maker and provocateur Mads Brügger leads us down an investigative rabbit hole to unearth the truth. Scores of false starts, dead ends and elusive interviews later, Brügger and his sidekick, Swedish Göran Björkdahl, begin to sniff out something more monumental than anything they had initially imagined.

 

I posted about the Murder in the Bush documentary a while ago, Steels. Stunning.

 

I remember talking to you about it on here. The first hour seems to go around in circles a bit, then it heads off at such a tangent it's utterly mesmerising. Unmissable TV - without spoiling the twist, I wonder how something like that would go down with what's going on in the world today?

 

So what is it? The worlds biggest murder mystery ever or the most idiotic conspiracy theory - question posed by the filmmaker Mads Brugger, at the beginning of the programme.

I know what it isn’t, and that’s a documentary. Not that I have a problem with that, some of my favourite TV shows are those highly personalised essays which look factual but are in fact much more interesting.

I enjoyed it as well.

 

Fair comment, but don't most so-called documentaries portray a subjective version of the 'facts'?

I'm trying to build myself up to watch the new Adam Curtis thing. I found the last one fascinating, but quite depressing.

Here's something that can genuinely be described as a documentary and one which I found fascinating....

BBC iPlayer - Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed

 

Yes, absolutely regarding many documentaries, though some are more up front about it than others. I think the Storyville one is a brilliant ‘quest’ story, it really doesn’t matter how true it is. The ones I don’t like are the more polemical stuff, like Michael Moore.

And the historical documentaries which present evidence and conflicting theories before making conclusions are great.

I’ll confess I’m only halfway through the new Curtis thing. It really jumps around, I think I get why but you can watch for 10 minutes and feel mesmerised but lost.

 

Obviously late to certain box sets as we have recently ditched most of Sky TV and started with Netflix.
I finally watched Homeland after many people suggested it. Really enjoyed the beginning seasons and would recommend if you haven't seen it.

 

Loved it!

 

It's good, the season in Pakistan is brilliant.

 

Come on mate, you know there's far more idiotic conspiracy theories than this one!

I like Storyville, they're not like your standard documentary they're more like a journey and you discover facts as the journalists covering the story do

 

That’s what the bloke who made it described it as (possibly) being!

 

Just working through various scandi and other assorted European dramas at the moment having seen the final series of The Bridge and been hooked. If you have a thing about subtitles stop reading but get past that phobia and inevitably the characterisation and acting wipes the floor with with anything produced in the UK or the States. Coming to the end of a marathon stint watching Spiral or 'Engrenages' in the original French - all 8 seasons spanning 15 years of filming. Don't need necessarily to have gruesome murders and perpetual darkness - there was a very good Norwegian first series about the development of oil exploration in the 60s in the North Sea set in Stavanger, can't remember the name but excellent. And if you liked House of Cards try to catch Borgen which is far more credible and dare I say it, probably realistic, set in Denmark

 

Wray and Nephew white rum.

****ing hell.

 

Have you tried Cloven Hoof rum? It was on Dragons Den and I ordered a bottle out of curiosity. It really is great with tonic water as suggested by the bloke on DD.