Movie & TV Show Recommendations -

[Jones McCann]

Season 2 is shit, unfortunately. It's all lesbian scientist, autistic kid and how racism is the real evil.

There was basically no lesbian scientist in the second half of season 2, but I agree it was shit. The way the second season mostly focused on the atlanta killer was good in theory but in practice I think it made the season way less interesting than the first one. The first half of the season was actually great, then they got to Atlanta and I just felt like there was no progress in the story after that point. They took what should of been 1-2 episodes and made it 6. I don't particularly like black people but I thought the racism stuff was mostly well done, besides black people being naturally annoying with their victim mentality. I didn't mind the autistic kid either, that was way more intersting than the main plot. It's a shame it ended on such a terrible season, I think it had more potential.

 

[JamesFargo]

The trailers and posters make it look like a John Wick clone

Yeah, the trailer has an uncertain tone. Not very enticing, IMO.

 

[Commander X]

A Shaw Bros. comedy, featuring Kara Wai in the role that won her the Best Actress award at the first Hong Kong Film Awards as Cheng Tai-nan, a martial artist who married her elderly benefactor so that his unscrupulous brother, who runs a martial arts school but abuses fighting skills for his own gain, won’t be able to inherit his assets upon his death. When she becomes his heir, she intends to pass the inheritance onto the man's nephew by his late older brother.

There comes culture clash with her new relatives who she now outranks in the family hierarchy by virtue of her marriage. Yu Jing-Chuen, the intended nephew, played by director Lau Kar Leung himself, is much older than her yet must defer to her wishes. His son, Ah Tao, is more Jing's age but has become enamored with Western practices while being educated in Hong Kong. So, the clash is deepened between Ah Tao, or 'Charlie' as he's dubbed himself and his new aunt, who is more traditionally minded. So there's a contrast between Dai-Nan's quiet sincerity and Charlie's high-energy and silliness. Will these two kooky kids ever get along, especially after the dastardly brother, Master Sheng (Johnny Wang Lung-wei as another Shaw Bros. villain) has the deeds proving Master Yu was the intended inheritor stolen?

 

[Evola's Tiger]

Any Bongs here remember the comedy series "Monkey Dust" on the BBC? That show was dark as hell from what I remember.

Might have to dust it off again at some point, haven't seen it in years.

 

[CWCissey]

Any Bongs here remember the comedy series "Monkey Dust" on the BBC? That show was dark as hell from what I remember.

Might have to dust it off again at some point, haven't seen it in years.

Full episodes seem to be on YouTube.

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

I've been watching Twin Peaks (31 fucking years later). I'm eight episodes in and this is the weirdest shit but i enjoy it

 

[Commander X]

Been watching "Unlucky Stars", a partly crowd-funded indie martial arts action film, released in 2015, that was only recently released on Blu-Ray; the distribution company that actor/director Dennis Ruel and his team were dealing with vanished and after some serious legal wrangling, Ruel was able to rescue the movie and reacquire the rights in 2018 and had to struggle with getting physical copies made due to some technical mishaps.

It's an entertaining homage to 80s Hong Kong martial arts films, starring a lot of people, stunt performers and martial artists who'd been part of the whole emerging online scene back in the 2000s. Ruel, who has racked up various TV and film credits since, had been a member of The Stunt People, an indie stunt performance and film group and played the villain in their 2006 feature-length action film Contour, opposite Eric Jacobus. Later he'd work with Jacobus again on the award-winning "Rope-a-Dope" action film shorts (the high concept essentially being a Groundhog Day-style time loop with martial arts action). Here, he stars as an unemployed guy with fighting skills who gets a job working alongside a P.I. played by Ken Quintuga, martial artist and former member of the Zero Gravity indie stunt team. They've been hired to track down missing washed up B-list Peruvian action star Tomas de la Cruz (actor/indie director Jose Montesinos). It turns out he owes some gangsters 15K. Other players that get mixed in are a wannabe action star making his own movie, who is de la Cruz's biggest and perhaps only fan, and his stunt double he fires in a fit of anger, played by action choreographer Vlad Rimburg, and the people making Action Rehab, a reality rehab show for action movie stars. It's not a perfect movie and the comedy doesn't fire sometimes for me, but they certainly didn't stint on the stuntwork and fights, and that's what people go to these sort of films for.

For the curious, Rimburg posted the "director's cut" to his Youtube channel, where he's posted various short films and "concepts" he's worked on over the years.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Mortal: a low budget Norwegian film about an amnesiac man who is the sole survivor of a freak fire that destroyed a remote Norwegian farm. Definitely a slow burn but well acted all the same. Like Brightburn/Chronicle but with the return of the old gods instead of superhero origin story.

 

[horrorfan89]

Creepshow 1 and 2 will always be the quintessential horror anthology classics in my book. Rewatching the first one now and all I can say is how the duck did we go from this

To a fat black danger hair furry trying to fit in with a group of shapeshifters to fight evil Santa Claus, a thot who won't stop tweeting about a circus that uses real zombies and turns the guests into zombies, and yes I'm not joking.... Those happened in shudder's creepshow animated and Christmas specials.

Sorry didn't mean to sound butthurt but hey my name's horrorfan it's who I am

 

[AnOminous]

Creepshow 1 and 2 will always be the quintessential horror anthology classics in my book. Rewatching the first one now and all I can say is how the duck did we go from this

The pre-Code E.C. horror comics were some of the best horror comics of all time, too. I'll never forgive that bastard Fredric Wertham for his proto-SJW bullshit.

 

[albert chan]

@Super-Chevy454 once posted about this Australian TV show from the ‘70s called Bluey. For now, it looks pretty interesting, even though it lasted for one season.

I can’t seem to find any episodes online, and you can buy the entire series on DVD for $70.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

@Super-Chevy454 once posted about this Australian TV show from the ‘70s called Bluey. For now, it looks pretty interesting, even though it lasted for one season.

I can’t seem to find any episodes online, and you can buy the entire series on DVD for $70.

I think it might be in Aussie dollars and I don't know if Bluey might also be available for DVD players located in Region 1 unless you get a player who's region free. Interesting to note then Australia and Latin America are both in Region 4.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

@Super-Chevy454 once posted about this Australian TV show from the ‘70s called Bluey. For now, it looks pretty interesting, even though it lasted for one season.

I can’t seem to find any episodes online, and you can buy the entire series on DVD for $70.

It sucks when you find a series that you might like, but can't find any online video of it to preview. Bearcats! sounds like something that would be right up my alley, I'm not sure I'd want to drop 90 dollars for a DVD series that I may not want to own.

 

[Evola's Tiger]

Doc Martin, a comedy drama show about a spergy doctor (played by Martin Clunes) sent to work in a sleepy Cornwall village and having to deal with its weird and eccentric locals is well worth a watch.

 

[Ralph Cifaretto]

Looking forward to season four of Yellowstone in June. Anyone else watch it?

It's a contemporary drama with Kevin Costner playing John Dutton, the owner of the largest cattle ranch in the US. His four adult children and the Governor of Montana are among his allies. Major antagonists include an Indian Chief and land developers, who wants some or all of Dutton's land for their own goals. Some of the conflict occurs in the courtroom of course, but most of it involves escalating violence between the different groups and other sorts of organized crime shit.

If you like HBO/AMC style prestige dramas, I absolutely recommend it. Season one was a little slow and disjointed, but man, two and three are a fucking wild ride.

Edit: Gonna toss a quick reccomendation for The Outsider on HBO while it's on my mind. Starts out as a straight crime drama featuring Jason Bateman as the prime suspect and quickly evolves into Stephen King psychological suspense horror. I'd compare it favorably to Season 1 of True Detective and it's a fantastic adaptation of King even though it goes a bit off the rails towards the end. The music is fucking amazing Jonny Greenwood quality shit.

 

[Heckler1]

Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal. Come for the ultaviolence, and stay for the emotional investment towards a caveman and his dinosaur friend. All with zero dialogue.

 

[Commander X]

One show I've gotten back into (which isn't difficult because it lasted six episodes) was the late 80s effort "Filthy Rich & Catflap", starring Rik Mayall as Richie Rich, a small time, talentless actor who is convinced he's a major celebrity and is paranoid enough to believe people are after him because of his fame. Thus he has hired Edward Catflap (Ade Edmondson) as his drunken bodyguard, and Nigel Planer played Ralph Filthy, Richie's sleazy, hypochondriac agent who makes most of his money from very seedy business dealings. The fourth wall isn't so much broken as it's completely ignored and of course, manic slapstick violence

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Dogville is great

 

[Bland Crumbs]

I highly recommend RKO 281. It is a 1999 fictionalization(liberties taken) of the making of Citizen Kane made during the golden age of HBO Studios productions.

A taste:

It may or may not be available for free(with awful captions) on YT.

 

[Foltest]

The looming tower is amazing. I highly recommend it to everyone who have a passing interest in the hunt for bin Laden before 9/11 and why both FBI and CIA failed.
Great casting for everyone involved, but especially the casting for the terrorists. Some of the casting for them are so good.
It make me want to read the book it is based on.