daytona600
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Recommended movies etc on Netflix/Amazon Prime III
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Somafunk
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There’s a blinder of a WW2 film titled “Greyhound” with Tom Hanks on Apple TV, best listened to with a good subwoofer to shake the walls…..it’ll have you absolutely hooked from the start and please remember to breathe throughout the film, I almost passed out at one point.
Mark Ronson has a good music documentary series on Apple TV called “Watch the Sound”
Finished this last night and have to say it was a hard, but compelling, watch. If anyone tries it you need to hang in there until episode 4 when the series really develops and you understand why the lead character is the way he is. Thought provoking and well acted by a lot of the cast although do not watch it if you or any company are not open to scenes of a disturbing nature from a sexual perspective and/or can't handle foul language.
tones
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Based on C.S. "Horatio Hornblower" Forester's The Good Shepherd. It makes some changes (the destroyer is codenamed differently and, while U-boats could often listen to convoy radio transmissions, they could not speak to the escorts, the way the wolf pack captain does to the destroyer commander in this film). However, it is wonderfully tense as the captain tries to protect the convoy with his limited means in the air-cover hole in the Atlantic that existed at that time.
matthewr
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Apologies for my momentary lapse -- I am not an 24 year-old Instagram content creator and what I meant was the first two episodes of Series 3 of the excellent TV show "Hacks" are now available. It's a HBO show I think.
bor
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I enjoyed Living - Netflix
Bill Nighy plays Bill Nighy, a stiff-upper-lipped civil servant in 50s London, told that he only has a few months to live.
He attempts to shed his reserved persona and find some pleasure in his last few months.
It won't change your life, but it's a nice film.
Bill Nighy plays Bill Nighy, a stiff-upper-lipped civil servant in 50s London, told that he only has a few months to live.
He attempts to shed his reserved persona and find some pleasure in his last few months.
It won't change your life, but it's a nice film.
I bailed halfway through episode one, this series is throwing up a number of very troubling repercussion's, rather exploitative.
While I appreciate the writer has got more than he bargained for… the trouble with blurring real life and fiction… I think it is a brave piece of work. The series is based on the writer’s real life experiences but while the story appears to be about a deranged stalker it’s more about Donny and why he is the way he is. As hard as it is to watch when you factor in that surveys illustrate that nearly half of gay men have been sexually assaulted this show confronts that and shows the long term damage that can do and the various knock on effects for others in their lives.
There has been something of a social media mass sleuthing trying to find the real women/stalker; this is what I have a problem with, she has no agency in this. At least the writer made the decision for himself.
There is controversy around his duty of care towards someone with obvious problems. Anyway, as I said, it wasn’t for me.
Duty of Care? Let's blame who needs to be blamed here. The writer has gone to great lengths to protect the identity of the woman who stalked him. He has said that he left no identifying characteristics between the real person and the dramatised person. He has more than discharged any duty of care he had toward the perpetrator of the crime he was a victim of. Unfortunately, that misdirection means that morons on the Internet are finding people who match that invented persona and harassing them.
Similarly, I hope the friends and colleagues of the author who have now been accused of raping him by the same kind of idiots make full use of the UK's libel courts. Too many people think that what they publish online has no real consequence. They need to learn the truth, expensively if need be.
Similarly, I hope the friends and colleagues of the author who have now been accused of raping him by the same kind of idiots make full use of the UK's libel courts. Too many people think that what they publish online has no real consequence. They need to learn the truth, expensively if need be.
gez
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Exactly this. I've not seen the show and this is the first I've read about the fall out/consequences, but it seems pretty clear the "problem" is some members of the public's obession with vigilantism. Even if the writer had portrayed the stalker faithfully, (or even had gone as far as to have used their real name)*, the public have zero business trying to track them down and serve whatever they consider "justice" on the person.
*I'm not saying I would condone a writer actually doing so. But the real issue is that their identity should NEED to be protected from the public.
gez
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People have encouraged me to watch it (as they know about my interest in all things sciencey), but when I found out that it had a "sex scene" in it I decided to ignore it. I know the actual story of the bomb from various documentaries etc, I don't need to watch some "titilated" version.