What program/film/documentary are you watching now?

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: wings7

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I was really excited to see a poster yesterday at my train station for a film called:

The Death of Stalin

However, at the bottom of the poster was the tag line - A comedy of terrors... I assumed from that that this wasn't a serious film [:D] and sure enough it is a satire.

When I got home I checked out a trailer for it - and it looks pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5dMYx2no

And Michael Palin is Molotov, of cocktail fame.

[Orm]

Re-watching The Last Kingdom.

I am surprised that not more here watch this great show.

[VPaulus]

Just finished seeing Deadwood.
Good series. I really like the way it ended.
Beware of the use of constant profanity language...
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questi ... n-deadwood

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: VPaulus

Just finished seeing Deadwood.
Good series. I really like the way it ended.
Beware of the use of constant profanity language...
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questi ... n-deadwood

I liked the show as well. Although I do not recall a good ending. To me it seemed like another season was planned but never materialized. Maybe time to re-watch it.

[VPaulus]

ORIGINAL: Orm
To me it seemed like another season was planned but never materialized.

Yes, you're absolutely right. Another season was planned.
But still I like how it ended even without a the fourth season.
There's a sense that life goes on, and like so often, the powerful will enforce their own will regardless of morals or justice.

[warspite1]

I must say the current series of Cold Feet is excellent - the return of the 5 friends last time out was okay, but this series has notched up the drama nicely [:)]

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Re-watching The Last Kingdom.

I am surprised that not more here watch this great show.

It is very good, I agree.
Currently watching Netflix' Mindhunter, a quite good show imo.

[warspite1]

Lots of stuff ending: Liar, Victoria, Rellik but Vietnam still has two episodes to go and there is a good looking drama on BBC about the James I and the Gunpowder Plot coming up - Hussah!


Gunpowder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k89f1

[terje439]

Watching the latest season of Victoria. Started to wonder.
If we assume that they will keep the show running untill the death of Queen Victoria...
Are they going to put Jenna Coleman on a strict burger and pizza diet for the later seasons? [;)]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: terje439

Watching the latest season of Victoria. Started to wonder.
If we assume that they will keep the show running untill the death of Queen Victoria...
Are they going to put Jenna Coleman on a strict burger and pizza diet for the later seasons? [;)]

warspite1

Wouldn't matter to me if they did [;)]

[Zazah03]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Disney Pixar's Up - what are stonkingly good film [&o]

Me too

[Zorch]

I'm not big on horror movies, but the french film Raw is worth watching. It's about a teenage girl who goes to veterinary school (really).

[redcoat]

Glory (1989) was on the telly and so I watched it again. I first saw it at the cinema when it came out. It has a stirring soundtrack.

[Tiger360]

I am currently watching India's Daughter. I think the film was based on the 2012 Delhi gang-rape. It's based on the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was a physiotherapy student. Yo man this documentary changed my life! Anyone who would like to check it out..it's directed by Leslee Udwin. It's a nice piece of work.

[warspite1]

So I finished The Vietnam War and it remained a quality production throughout the 10 episodes I'm pleased to say. I felt it was very even handed in its treatment and the numbers interviewed from all sides. I would thoroughly recommend this.

I didn't realise just how 'bad' Richard Nixon was, I mean really, what a twat [X(]

Right, let's give Gunpowder a go....

[VPaulus]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
I didn't realise just how 'bad' Richard Nixon was, I mean really, what a twat [X(]

You should then see "Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words (HBO Documentary)"...

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: VPaulus

ORIGINAL: warspite1
I didn't realise just how 'bad' Richard Nixon was, I mean really, what a twat [X(]

You should then see "Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words (HBO Documentary)"...

warspite1

Thanks for the link. His comments on women, various religious groups, Black Americans and Mexican Americans was..... thoroughly depressing [:(].

[durangokid]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

So I finished The Vietnam War and it remained a quality production throughout the 10 episodes I'm pleased to say. I felt it was very even handed in its treatment and the numbers interviewed from all sides. I would thoroughly recommend this.

Completely agree with you, the series is first rate. The quality and balance of the programmes encouraged me to start watching another Ken Burns series, The Civil War on Netflix (UK). Again, an excellent series that gives balance to all points of view.

Considering the series relies on panning across still photographs, you are left with the impression that you've watched a video of the actual events. As one newspaper (Guardian) said, "Burns’s decision to plunder contemporary diaries is without question the most striking aspect of his film."

Without doubt, a quality documentary maker.

[warspite1]

So I watched the BBC three-parter Gunpowder starring Game of Thrones Kit Harrington. Like GoT is was pretty gory on occasion - but then they were pretty horrific times if you found yourself on the wrong side of the law (such as it was). Overall though, this was well worth 3-hours of my time.

It is disappointing that film makers can't stick more to the historical events, but at least in making programs like this - Versailles and Victoria too - it makes me reference the internet to check on the whether events depicted on film are as told. This at least means I get to watch decent drama and get a history lesson at the same time [:)].

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
It is disappointing that film makers can't stick more to the historical events Victoria

You mean like Drummond irl being 51 when he was shot? [:D]
Also a historical fact; The term "temporarily insane" was first used on the farmer that shot Drummond.