What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

red assassin · Post by **red assassin** » Thu, 12. Apr 18, 21:11

The BBC are showing a miniseries of China Mieville's The City & the City at the moment, which I'm enjoying. Might be a bit of a challenge if you haven't read the book though.

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Fri, 20. Apr 18, 23:09

I guess that's the end of Ash vs Evil Dead unless Netflix picks it up.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com//live ... ssion=true

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Tue, 1. May 18, 18:57

Tremors 6 : A Cold Day in Hell is on US netflix. The Tremors tv series got cancelled even before the pilot aired on Syfy.

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Tue, 1. May 18, 19:14

burger1 wrote:Tremors 6 : A Cold Day in Hell is on US netflix. The Tremors tv series got cancelled even before the pilot aired on Syfy.

I adored the first movie. It was pure genius! Wonderful! Great! I even liked the second movie. But... they wore thin after that.

Bacon and Ward were perfect in that first movie. I'd miss them in any "series."

Movies like this seem to develop a fanbase very quickly, but it doesn't often translate well. People "love" the movie, but sometimes back away from plans to expand upon it or to make a television production. For instance, while it has had some dedicated fans, "Ash vs The Evil Dead" is being cancelled. I haven't seen many episodes, but it seems to have held true to the spirit of the original movies.

But... continuous satire runs thin, manufactured drama, purely for its irony value, doesn't often engage people if there's too much humor in it, and there comes a point when a something has to commit itself, fully, or it just turns "lukewarm."

A "Tremors" series would have to either go fully into the sitcom category, committing itself with only occasional bits of real drama and monster-ish shennanigans, or fully commit itself to adventure-horror, with only some comic-relief, here and there. The movie did a wonderful job of walking the thin line in-between drama and parody. A series would have to achieve that every week... A tough job that very few ever manage to pull off, if any.

Redvers Ganderpoke · Post by **Redvers Ganderpoke** » Wed, 2. May 18, 13:28

Things watched recently (both on Netflix)

Fallet - odd comedy(? ) about a mismatched pair of detectives (yawn) - in Swedish and English - watched the first episode and decided it didn't work.

Happy! - Black comedy apparently based on a graphic novel. Better than expected but not child or teen friendly. (Too violent and sex.)

Hank001 · Post by **Hank001** » Thu, 3. May 18, 10:02

Google's main screen offering today is probably it's best to date.
A cute 360 degree animation, so swipe or scroll to keep the actors in view.

"Back to the moon"

https://youtu.be/BEePFpC9qG8

Enjoy the trip.

Redvers Ganderpoke · Post by **Redvers Ganderpoke** » Thu, 3. May 18, 11:37

red assassin wrote: China Mieville's The City & the City . Might be a bit of a challenge.

Watched the first episode and it was a bit of a challenge.

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Thu, 3. May 18, 11:45

I watched "Psychokinesis" last night, its a Korean film that's a mix of superhero movie, comedy and guy learns to be a better father (I dunno if there's a more official name for that genrea. . . . certainly plenty of films in it!

)
I was interested in it because its the second film from the director whose first was "Train to Busan"

Conclusion: It was quite good, . . . . . but if you haven't seen it already, go watch Train to Busan instead.

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Fri, 11. May 18, 19:55

It looks like syfy has canceled The Expanse.

http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse ... 202388026/

Trailer for the canceled Tremors series

https://vimeo.com/269051958

The Starhunter series is getting a redux release of Starhunter + Starhunter 2300. Starhunter Transformation is still currently in the works.

http://scififrontiers.com/2018/05/07/co ... rd-season/

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Sat, 26. May 18, 05:57

The French tv series Missions is on BBC. It's 6.7/10 with 446 votes on imdb. I think only 4 episodes are up so far. UK region locked.

Babylon 5 has moved from go90.com to Amazon Prime US. They added Chuck also.

It looks like Starhunter Redux will air May 29, 2018 on the El Rey network (a paid network)

http://www.elreynetwork.com/

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Sun, 27. May 18, 02:20

The Expanse has been renewed for season 4 at Amazon.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live- ... on-1115160

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Sun, 27. May 18, 07:27

burger1 wrote:The Expanse has been renewed for season 4 at Amazon.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live- ... on-1115160

Does this mean that the first three seasons will actually become available on Amazon Prime in the UK, or are we still going to have the ridiculous situation where it's on Prime in the US but on Netflix over here? Meaning I would have to have both Amazon Prime and Netflix to see the whole thing?

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sun, 27. May 18, 07:35

burger1 wrote:The Expanse has been renewed for season 4 at Amazon.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live- ... on-1115160

So, I gotta get Amazon, now?

Bishop149 · Post by **Bishop149** » Wed, 13. Jun 18, 17:58

Redvers Ganderpoke wrote:Happy! - Black comedy apparently based on a graphic novel. Better than expected but not child or teen friendly. (Too violent and sex.)

I too just started this.
Premise is that the imaginary friend (a blue cartoon unicorn) of a kidnapped girl seeks out the protagonist (a drug addled former superstar cop turned hitman) to convince him to rescue the girl.
Something different to be sure.

I'm enjoying it so far, the setting, characters and violence are all hugely / comically overblown and combined with the utterly ridiculous premise makes it all rather fun / amusing. It reminds me a little of the Jason Statham movie Crank stylewise.
But yeah not for the kids this one.

BugMeister · Post by **BugMeister** » Thu, 14. Jun 18, 19:26

- watching a lot of Frost, lately..
David Jason, brilliant acting..

burger1 · Post by **burger1** » Tue, 19. Jun 18, 01:29

Currently watching The Joy of Techs on Netflix. About 50% of the episodes are funny. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. I suggest starting with episode 2 not episode 1.

https://unogs.com/video/?v=80233518

Post by **euclid** » Mon, 25. Jun 18, 01:45

Watching Luke Cage season 2 atm.. However, it's more about the bands rather than the story why I'm posting this. So if you like blues and jazz then have a go. Some of those musicians are quite amazing.

Cheers Euclid

Post by **euclid** » Fri, 29. Jun 18, 00:20

Just watched The Expanse season final .... intense!

Cheers Euclid

Hank001 · Post by **Hank001** » Fri, 29. Jun 18, 00:26

Just finished it myself. About time Syfy put oon something besides Futurama reruns.

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Fri, 29. Jun 18, 00:29

Hank001 wrote:Just finished it myself. About time Syfy put oon something besides Futurama reruns.

I mean, you know they cancelled it and it had to be rescued by Amazon right?

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What are you watching now ? Movies and TV