Movie & TV Show Recommendations -

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

For all mankind season 2 is pretty good , season 1 isn't anything special as they saved all their money for the big stuff so space isn't seen much , its mainly just earth and people talking in rooms. But season 2 managed to be alot better. If you want alt history that isnt just "what if natzees won ww2" id say check it out.

 

[Deadly Nightshade]

Never Let Me Go (2010)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(2010_film)

https://youtu.be/sXiRZhDEo8A

Movie is based on a book written by Kazuo Ishiguro about clones coming to terms with being gutted for their organs once they’re adults and centers around Cathy and two of her friends who are involved in a love triangle while fighting to make the most of it in their short lives.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Mishima is probably the best movie George Lucas had anything to do with.
The is film focuses on the final day of Yukio Mishima's life as well as these interwoven vignettes of some of his works.
It's probably the best way to do a biographical film of an author.

 

[Damien Thorne]

I have been watching Hoarders on Netflix. Every episode focuses on a different slice of lolcow material. I recommend checking it out.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

The Undefeated: a 1969 western starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson as ex-army officers from opposite sides of the American Civil War who cross paths in Mexico while driving horses to sell to the army and leading an exodus of ex-Confederates respectively. A great time all around although the anachronistic firearms will probably drive gun spergs nuts.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

holy crap this thread is almost 8 years old

 

[protomartyr]

https://youtu.be/3qX1ZU3jcfU

Shin Godzilla is a fucking great movie. I've never really been into the whole big monster thing, but this one is really enjoyable on a few levels. Godzilla is legitimately terrifying, there's genuine suspense and when the few moments of levity occur they're really funny. It's also making a political point which has some pertinence in the plague times, but it makes it pretty well compared to the shit that western movies attempt. Can't recommend enough.

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Suspiria - 1977 - Directed by Dario Argento - Italian Giallo (Horror/Mystery) Movie.
Surrealist dream like atmosphere of horror taking place in Freiburg, Germany following a Susie Bannion, an young girl who enrolls in a classic dance academy.
The soundtrack is amazing done by Italian Rock band Goblin, this is a movie in it's pure sense: Visuals, Visuals and Visuals.

Suspiria is so good. Hardly any other movie I can think of leans so hard into the visual side of storytelling as this one, aside from really obtuse art house stuff. Mandy is similarly expressive if you haven't seen that.

 

[CWCissey]

Man Down.

A Britcom starring Greg Davies as a manchild drama teacher who vows to get his life on track after his girlfriend dumps him. Rik Mayall played his sadistic dad in his final role and stole the first series.

Although series 2-4 did miss Rik greatly it was still pretty funny, and Tony Robinson was surprisingly menacing in his role as Greg's prospective step-dad.

Taskmaster first series thicky Roisin Conaty and current Taskmaster series dark horse Mike Wozniak appear as Greg's friends too.

 

[AnOminous]

The soundtrack is amazing done by Italian Rock band Goblin, this is a movie in it's pure sense: Visuals, Visuals and Visuals.

You probably know this if you mentioned it at all, but they're also the band that did the soundtrack for the European release of Dawn of the Dead, and some of their tracks showed up in the American version too. They were actually brought in to revise the original soundtrack by Dario Argento, who was largely responsible for the film being released in Europe (under the name Zombi).

 

[Let's Love Lain]

Is there any TV series being produced as of late that isn't pozzed?

 

[Commander X]

Recent film, the Seattle based indie martial-arts comedy-drama "The Paper Tigers". The original conception was this short proof-of-concept film from director Tran Quac Bao, where Andy Le (of the troupe of martial artists/short filmmakers calling themselves 'Martial Club') faced off against Ken Quitugua of the indie Zero Gravity stunt team (who was the action director on this feature).

The short featured Le as the character who was intended to be the lead in the feature length production, only with the twist that in The Paper Tigers, the character is now in his 40s and his skills have diminished with age and the grind of life.

The premise is that a Seattle based chef and kung fu master, took three boys under his tutelage. Danny, Hing and Jim grew to be known in the local martial arts scene as the Three Tigers. They were unstoppable in official matches or street fighting. Flash forward a couple of decades and now they're in their 40s and have drifted apart. Danny is a divorced insurance salesman who isn't exactly Father of the Year, Hing retains his passion for kung fu, and has become a gifted specialist in herbal medicine, but a workplace accident years ago left him with a bent leg. Jim has forsaken kung fu to become an MMA trainer at a local gym, but his old skills have gone rusty. It takes the death of their sifu Cheung to bring them back together, especially after they begin to believe that their sifu was murdered (and in the early scenes the audience knows they are right).

 

[Stasi]

Where do you all go to get good tv/film recommendations (other than this thread obviously)?

Every mainstream source seems to be pushing the same shit - race baiting trash, faggot/lgbt, strong whaman or capeshit and its becoming hard to sift through to find interesting stuff to watch. I don't mind social commentary in my entertainment now and then but it gets a bit tiresome when it seems its all thats being shat out. Rotten tomatoes seems to be the worst offender with any recommended/best of list full of Jordan Peele and other hacks.

 

[AnOminous]

Where do you all go to get good tv/film recommendations (other than this thread obviously)?

Look for good things by dead people. They'll never disappoint you in the future. Modernity is shit.

 

[Commander X]

Mindhorn (2017) - dir. Sean Foley. A cringe comedy romp starring Julian Barratt. He plays Richard Thorncroft, a boozing, womanizing actor who enjoyed a brief popularity in the 80s as the star of Mindhorn, an action/detective series filmed and set on the Isle of Man (as opposed to standing in for an exotic locale as it often has over decades), which comes off as a cross between The Six Million Dollar Man and Magnum PI - 80s style high concept nonsense about Bruce P. Mindhorn, former MI5 agent turned detective who has a cybernetic eye that doubles as a built in lie detector. Thorncroft was riding high, until a drunken interview on Terry Wogan's show where he insulted the show's cast and crew as well as the Isle of Man. Shortly afterwards, Mindhorn was cancelled and he ended up throwing his TV career away for a hubristic and failed bid at breaking into Hollywood. Flash forward to the present, Thorncroft is now a sad, pot-bellied has-been appearing in minor guest spots and adverts for products like compression socks. He used to know guys like Kenneth Branaugh and shared an agent with guys like Simon Callow but none of them remember him (or choose not to)

However, an escaped murderer calling himself "The Kestrel" is loose on the old Isle, and as he thinks the show was real, keeps demanding to speak with Detective Mindhorn to help prove his innocence, or else. The Manx police reluctantly bring in Thorncroft, who of course sees this as a PR opportunity to get back into the spotlight and boost his profile. There are people on Man who don't care to deal with his idiocy, though, including his ex-girlfriend and co-star Patricia Deville (Essie Davis), now a successful local TV reporter. She and his former stunt double Clive Parnevik (Simon Farnaby sporting a bizarre accent) are in a relationship, which Clive takes great pleasure rubbing Thorncroft's face in. Steve Coogan also shows up as Dave Eastman, a former co-star not in the mood to tolerate him; the wealthy lead actor of a much more successful Mindhorn spin-off, the forensic detective series Windjammer, already entering a new season and the center of a merchandising empire.

Amidst all these old grudges, Throncroft's plans unravel due to his bad habits, and evidence that turns the case on it's head starts to crop up.

While with this set-up, you'd expect Barratt to be playing an over the top buffoon, he brings a rather world-weary, deadpan style of acting to the role that grounds it, even in some of the more slapstick scenes he still has a knack for delivering ridiculous lines with a straight face.

Also some nice touches with "the Kestrel's" home shrine to the fiction show within a show, complete with plenty of authentic looking corny Mindhorn merch, like the action figures, annuals, 96-piece jigsaw puzzles, and packets of "truth powder" (withdrawn from the market for being toxic).

 

[SITHRAK!]

I just got my copy of the 1993 Australian splatterfest movie ‘Body Melt’ so I’m going to watch that after dinner.

 

[Commander X]

Never Let Go (1960), a queasy British crime film. Struggling cosmetics salesman John Cummings (Richard Todd) finds his looming unemployment coming even sooner after his new Ford Anglia is stolen by a delinquent, and the police seem indifferent to his plight. Desparate to prove he's not a failure, he wades into the underworld against the wishes of a police inspector and his wife, bringing him into conflict with nasty racketeer Lionel Meadows (a genuinely unsettling Peter Sellers) whose legit auto-repair business is a façade for his chop-shop operation.

 

[Derka Derka]

A new Fox satire series going by the title "Let's Be Real"

 

[Ralph Cifaretto]

Anyone else watching Mare of Easttown? The last episode is next week, so it's not worth making a separate thread. It's a pretty straightforward crime drama with Kate Winslet as the main detective in a small Pennsylvania town trying to solve the murder of a local teen girl. Lots of red herrings and whatnot so far which has made it enjoyable as a weekly watch. Idk how it would be to binge, but it's short enough that it would only take a couple of nights. It reminds me a bit of True Detective season one, but definitely not nearly as good and creepy.

Edit: I just finished tonight's episode and I'll watch the finale for completion, but the show's a complete fucking waste of time. It was a fun ride going week to week and from an acting/cinematography standpoint you could do a lot worse, but the plot-writing fucking sucks.

One more edit: The finale was pretty crazy and the writers definitely redeemed themselves. Worth a watch if you're into true crime shit.

 

[66andtwothirds]

Dan Vs. is about the only adult cartoon that isn't irony-bro toilet humour.

American Dad! is great too.

 

[horrorfan89]

Afew late 70's early 80s apocalypse type movies to watch
The warriors (1979)
John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981)
Mad Max (1979)
The Road Warrior: Mad Max 2 (1981)