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LUKE said:
Reindeer Games -disturbing and addictive in equal measures.
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Did you mean Baby Reindeer? I’m going to watch that at my daughters on Friday when I’m dog sitting. Need to watch it asap with the court case stuff in case it gets pulled.
 
I’ve just binge watched it. Addictive and disturbing sums it up very well, doesn’t it. As per usual I got confused part way through and didn’t realise it had gone back in time. I’ve just watched the series in Ch 4 about the woman whose husband tried to kill her by tampering with her parachute. I think I need to watch something cheerful next.
 
The Godfather Marlon Brando is one of the best gangster movies ever made ,BUT I just watched Godfather part 2...wouldn't be in my top 10..too many boring lengthy scenes and Pacino nowhere near his best....
 
Currently mid way through Season 3 of The Boys over on Prime. It can be slow at times and very violent but I'd recommend it.

Also about to start Season 2 of House of the Dragon. I really enjoyed season 1 and though it's not as good as Game of Thrones, the source material isn't as in depth, I was pleasantly surprised. It's been cast really well.
 
Watching 'Love for Lydia' on Talking Pictures TV. It's the original ITV series from 1977, and is a reminder that Mel Martin, Lydia, was probably the most beautiful woman this 13-year-old had ever seen 47 years ago.

Great cast, includes Jeremy Irons, Peter Davidson, Michael Aldridge etc. Aged adaptation, but still a great watch. The whole experience is rounded off, with a "haunting" theme tune.
 
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I was at a works do when the last episode aired and we had to leave part way through so we could watch it. I think we may have returned later and that other people did the same. The main actor sadly died when he was only 55 (he, too, had a beautiful face; I checked out everyone in it when I discovered it on utube). I don’t think I’ve ever loved a series as much. Oh how I longed to be as beautiful as Mel Martin!
 
moehat said:
I was at a works do when the last episode aired and we had to leave part way through so we could watch it. I think we may have returned later and that other people did the same. The main actor sadly died when he was only 55 (he, too, had a beautiful face; I checked out everyone in it when I discovered it on utube). I don’t think I’ve ever loved a series as much. Oh how I longed to be as beautiful as Mel Martin!
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Marvellous - someone else remembers LFL!

Yes, poor Christopher Blake, dying so young. First time I had seen Jeremy Irons, and I thought he was the real standout, character-wise; although he could not hold a candle to Lydia’s beauty!

Great story about leaving a work do early to get home to watch it, Moehat! Was it a Christmas works do? The series ended in December; transmitted on a Friday night at 9.

I followed Mel Martin’s career, thereafter, but lost track. I noticed on wiki that she appeared as Del Boy’s stalker in an OFAH Christmas special. I had not clocked that at all.
 
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Yes, it would have been a Christmas do! There was no way that we were going to miss it. Another earlier series that I loved was Nanna. It resulted in me reading all of Zolas books. I found it reassuring to know that other people came from bonkers families and reading Germinal shaped my embryonic political views. Freddie Jones starred in it and I recently realised he is Toby Jones father. Lydia looked very like Louise Brookes who I also wanted to look like. Alas, being short, dumpy and with ginger hair it was never meant to be. I rather miss having to watch a programme when it’s actually on. I’m on a Facebook page that chats about The Box of Delights and everyone makes a point of watching one episode a week on the run up to Christmas with the last episode being on Christmas Eve, which is how it was shown originally. I think the Children if Green Knowe was the same. I also recently discovered Take Three Girls on utube.
 
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( I still cry when Feste eats the apple).
The Box of Delights is great too. When my house is a mess (which it usually is) I cry out in horror ‘but where are the servants ‘…
 
Watched The Promised Land on BBC iplayer last night. A Danish film loosely based on the true story of a retired Captain who attempted to cultivate barren land in Denmark ( sound riveting doesn’t it…)I caught part of it on 4 and wasn’t sure if I wanted to watch it but was intrigued so watched it from the beginning. Very dark and as bloody and gory as Game of Thrones but Mads Mikkelsen was brilliant as ever (I first saw him in A Royal Affair by the same director). Won’t be many peoples cup of tea but I loved it and am probably going to watch it again.
 
moehat said:
Watched The Promised Land on BBC iplayer last night. A Danish film loosely based on the true story of a retired Captain who attempted to cultivate barren land in Denmark ( sound riveting doesn’t it…)I caught part of it on 4 and wasn’t sure if I wanted to watch it but was intrigued so watched it from the beginning. Very dark and as bloody and gory as Game of Thrones but Mads Mikkelsen was brilliant as ever (I first saw him in A Royal Affair by the same director). Won’t be many peoples cup of tea but I loved it and am probably going to watch it again.
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I enjoyed it too. It is basically a Danish version of a Western, with barren and sparsely inhabited 17th century Jutland replacing the prairie as the backdrop to the action.
 
moehat said:
Watched The Promised Land on BBC iplayer last night...
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moehat said:
Very dark and as bloody and gory
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At my age that's enough to make me not want to watch it.

Other than the sport (watched Armand Duplantis break the world record yesterday) I watch very little everyday TV these days. Most mornings it's Frasier and most evenings it's the Dave channel (WILTY, ROHOG etc) just for the lightness of it.

I did catch up on Spellbound (one of the few Hitchcocks I don't have on DVD) last night on iPlayer. Gregory Peck some eye candy for Mrs O and Ingrid Bergman for me. :giggle:
 
Grey said:
I enjoyed it too. It is basically a Danish version of a Western, with barren and sparsely inhabited 17th century Jutland replacing the prairie as the backdrop to the action.
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The scenes with Anmai Mus, both as a child and as an adult had me in bits. The last scene in which she looks at her Popa and he gives that slight nod of the head makes me well up just thinking about it. It’s on a par with Alice throwing herself off the cliff in Last of the Mohicans imo;maybe it’s because I always wanted to run away and live with the gypsies too. What an actor Mads is. Supposedly having read all the reviews, the director didn’t think of it as a western but the non Danish name given to the film reinforced that take on it. When I first started watching it part way through I assumed it was about the first settlers in America. I’d like to rewatch A Royal Affair one day. The director was also responsible for the original Girl With a Dragon Tattoo film so he knows how to make a good’un.
 
Film might not be that dark….just realised there’s something wrong with the settings on my tv…( or that I might need a new one).
 
Still thinking about it. Reached the conclusion that it’s the best film I’ve seen in a long time and I wish I’d seen it at a cinema.
 
moehat said:
Watched The Promised Land on BBC iplayer last night. A Danish film loosely based on the true story of a retired Captain who attempted to cultivate barren land in Denmark ( sound riveting doesn’t it…)I caught part of it on 4 and wasn’t sure if I wanted to watch it but was intrigued so watched it from the beginning. Very dark and as bloody and gory as Game of Thrones but Mads Mikkelsen was brilliant as ever (I first saw him in A Royal Affair by the same director). Won’t be many peoples cup of tea but I loved it and am probably going to watch it again.
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Watched this tonight - excellent movie, not at all dark or gory, the delicious baddie makes it for me.
 
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