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Watched An Ordeal By Innocence this week, really enjoyed it. Going to start The City and The City this week. Taping The Woman in White, even though I struggled with the book

Patti, Baku is on BBC4 this week, about art

That's interesting, Desley.

Gotta say I've gone right off Baku at the moment, though. Perhaps my outlook will improve once the stupid formula one is over.

I wanna see The Guernsey... etc, Tim. Was it good?

Good performances, but thoroughly predictable plot with no surprises. Heard it described as a "goes down well with a nice cup of tea" movie . . .

Tim wrote: "Good performances, but thoroughly predictable plot with no surprises. Heard it described as a "goes down well with a nice cup of tea" movie . . ."

That describes the book well, too.

So I take a flask?

Too sunny for the cinema at the moment - must flit around in the sun like a demented butterfly while it's out.

I watched Wonder yesterday.

No, I didn't just watch it.

I laughed, I cried, I enjoyed every moment of it.

It truly captured the book, I think. As much as any film can, anyway.

The casting was spot on.

I highly recommend it but read the book first.

Finished The City and The City this week, really fascinating, not read the book to know how similar. Then finished The Assassination of Gianni Versace last night, I didn't know the full story so found it shocking

I'm watching the original Twilight Zone.

Women had incredibly pointy tits in the 50s.

pointy bras were the fashion :-)

Take someone's eye out.

I'm not allowed to comment

Trust Madonna to revive it....

Perhaps some other star should bring that back into fashion now. Beth Ditto, maybe..? She seems to like playing with wild fashions.

Who?

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm watching the original Twilight Zone.

Women had incredibly pointy tits in the 50s."

I'm watching the new Lost in Space with the BBITW. It seems that the modern equivalent of the 50s pointy tits is that women in the future have T shirts that are several sizes too small for them. And the men have permanently stubbled chins.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Who?"

Beth Ditto is a singer. She also has a plus size clothing collection. It has some pretty funky and wild stuff. I wish I had the nerve to wear some of her outfits! (and the money)

I'm surprised Katy Perry or Nikki Minaj haven't tried to bring them back in to fashion already.

Yeah they are really missing a trick there!

I caught a documentary about Orangutangs last night (BBC 2) and it was pretty amazing to see the volunteers teaching the babies at 'Forest School' as well as the way they treat them in general. It takes 7 years for the babies to grow up and learn enough to be released back into the wild. Amazing.

Shame we apparently need so much Palm Oil these days as it is making way for the oil plantations that's the main cause of the deforestation. The most amazing pictures were of a wheelbarrow full of small (live) baby Orangutangs being wheeled around in a wheelbarrow!! If you didn't see it It would be worth catching on the iplayer if you like that sort of thing. There were some pretty harrowing scenes too, but overall a pretty amazing watch.

Aww!

There are quite a few new series starting next week, including Season 3 of Humans

I've discovered a documentary series on the English language on YouTube.

Simply fascinating.

Started watching Safe on Netflix last night. It's excellent even though I had reservations about Michael C. Hall (of Dexter fame) acting the part of an English doctor, he is absolutely believable in his role; Mark Warren is also in it so that's another plus.
For anyone with Netflix looking for a Broadchurch type of program, go check it out.

Started watching Siren - on episode 5 and not sure how what they are going to do for the last 4.

On episode 3 of Innocent, quite enjoying it.

My girl and I watched Ready Player One last night...Very good film! 🐯🐯👍

Leo wrote: "My girl and I watched Ready Player One last night...Very good film! 🐯🐯👍"

The book was better. :D

But the film was still good :D

Just watched SOLO: A Star Wars Story. Shrug. It was okay.

I don't understand all the hype Star Wars films get.

No one seems to enjoy them.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I don't understand all the hype Star Wars films get.

No one seems to enjoy them."

That's what gets me to be honest. I rather like Starwars. I regard them as fun films and don't worry too much, so I quite enjoyed the last one as well.

In their favour, they do have around 90 more minutes of plot than the average Avengers movie.

Dave and I have no interest in any of the comic book films.

Which means we've had very few new films to watch recently.

Gary Oldman does an awfully good Churchill in Darkest Hour . . .

Gonna watch Shaun the Sheep tonight :)

We watched about an hour of darkest hour and shut it off.

Well, I shut it off. Dave was asleep.

I finished Innocent last night, changed my mind about whodunit half an hour into the last episode, but just felt the ending could have been done better.

Watched Jumanji 2 in the end. Maybe Shaun the Sheep will be tonight . . .

I'm trying Lucifer again. Episode 2 and it's still crap.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'm trying Lucifer again. Episode 2 and it's still crap."

I gave up on that

Yeah, didn't make it to the end of episode 2.

Completely cringe-worthy. Ew.

I see the Roseanne re-boot has been cancelled.

Perhaps there is a modicum of intelligence left in the states.

Just watched 1st episode of Innocent so far and enjoying it too.

I've been watching a series this weekend called Kiss Me First, quite enjoying it

Just watched the last of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal progs and thought they were brilliant - very well done and probably more than an element of the truth about them!

L.A. wrote: "Just watched the last of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal progs and thought they were brilliant - very well done and probably more than an element of the truth about them!"

I'm going to start watching that this week, finished the Split last night

We watched the actual Panorama documentary on Thorpe last night that was shown on Sunday night - apparently it had the largest audience for a late night BBC4 documentary ever!!

Well worth a watch after the Very British Scandal if only to see how great the actors and actresses portrayals of the actual people from the documentary were.

Finished Designated Survivor. Hadn't realised Michel J Fox was still working - kudos to the guy.

L.A. wrote: "Just watched the last of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal progs and thought they were brilliant - very well done and probably more than an element of the truth about them!"

We've watched the first two so far - planning to finish it tonight. Really well-done, I agree.

Last night we also watched the new BBC documentary on the suffragettes.

Starting the final series of Person of Interest (wot I recorded back in February...)

The new season of Humans is very good, as is Westworld.

Darren wrote: "The new season of Humans is very good, as is Westworld."

Really looking forward to both but think I'll wait til the whole seasons have been released.

We've been binging on QI repeaters on YouTube.

Am on Episode 2 of A Very English Scandal, finding it quite gripping actually - I'm too young to remember it

It was pretty gripping for us oldies too! We really enjoyed it. We watched the panorama documentary afterwards (which had been secretly kept for decades without being aired) and it was especially intriguing !