Compulsive viewing

[watty]

Daddio is a pretty good 'taxi' movie.

A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the driver about the important relationships in their lives.

It's pretty much Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn in a taxi for 1 hr 40 min so you'd want to be in the mood for it.  No guns or explosions!  Kinda feels like it started life as a stage play but someone said fukk it, let's make a movie out of it.  I enjoyed it.

YouTube Trailer

[Rat Catcher]

Damn immigrants...

[silverbullet]

Trigger point Series 2

With the brilliant Vicky McClure from Line Of Duty.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11958610.

Virgin TV.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

once upon a time in northern ireland on the rte player.
5 part series about the troubles.
brilliant.

[Rat Catcher]

Spotlight On The Troubles is a must watch if you like norn iron history... and haven't yet watched it. I think it's BBC, might be on Netflix too... and most probably on Torrdroid.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

A Troubled Land channel on youtube.
Reams and reams of Northern Ireland archive content.
brilliant.

[Belker]

My re-living on the Troubles is to just leave it forgotten and move on.

The last season of Derry girls put it all to bed fer me.....

[Cool Boola]

Those About to Die: the gory true story behind Prime Video’s new gladiatorial epic https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/those-about-to-die-true-story-prime-video-rome-b1171032.html


Brilliant 10 part series.

[Rat Catcher]

I enjoy reading various accounts of the troubles, Ken... but I don't subscribe to the desire for retrospective accountability. They killed some of us, we killed more of them, lot's more lives were lost to "friendly fire" but it's over. Once the freedom fighters and the loyalist paramilitary thugs were released under the terms of the GFA a line was drawn under that entire era in my mind.

[silverbullet]

A Troubled Land channel on youtube.
Reams and reams of Northern Ireland archive content.
brilliant.

It's a pity there wasn't an equivalent San Andreas Fault between Organ Iron and the Republic Of Ireland. That way we could use a nuke and set it adrift into the North Atlantic. That accent and the constant whining *shudders*!!

[Belker]

I enjoy reading various accounts of the troubles, Ken... but I don't subscribe to the desire for retrospective accountability. They killed some of us, we killed more of them, lot's more lives were lost to "friendly fire" but it's over. Once the freedom fighters and the loyalist paramilitary thugs were released under the terms of the GFA a line was drawn under that entire era in my mind.

We most likely have very different early recollections of the Troubles Stephen, when it all kicked off in the late 60's you were most likely a fair-haired lad in an unsupervised Dooblin schoolyard, I was the Ginger Paddy in an unsupervised London schoolyard.

The last season of Derry girls put it all to bed fer me, ... and there it shall stay.

[Rat Catcher]

Probably not as dissimilar as you imagine, Ken. I definitely had a bit of an English accent on account of both my parents being born and bred Londoners. Probably relatively easily dropped through my teenage years among the company a young socialist keeps in Coolock!

[Rat Catcher]

Wrong thread.

[silverbullet]

Wrong thread.

*Dublin accent*

Wrong tread!

[Belker]

Probably not as dissimilar as you imagine, Ken. I definitely had a bit of an English accent on account of both my parents being born and bred Londoners. Probably relatively easily dropped through my teenage years among the company a young socialist keeps in Coolock!

I dunno if'n ye had the BBC here in 1971 but over there we had a TV show on Sunday afternoons called Tom Brown's schooldays which Mary Whitehouse (the censor) had banned because it; " included scenes of bullying and corporal punishment which may have been too graphic for family viewing. "Clean-up TV" campaigner Mary Whitehouse claimed that the programme broke the BBC's guidelines on the depiction of sadistic violence."

I remember watching the show and thinking to myself after it was banned; "FFS ! Is that all !" ....
Believe me Stephen, we had very different young upbringings.