TV/Movies Megathread

[crazy canuck]

For All Mankind and Foundation are both on Apple. Decent entertainment.

Also Ted Lasso, Severance, Masters of the Air and Silo.

All of which are also worth the price of admission.

[FunkMonk]

Also on Apple TV, Lessons in Chemistry and Palm Royale are enjoyable.

[Barrister]

So I would say Ted Lasso is worth the price of an Apple TV sub by itself.  I loved that show.

That being said, nothing else on the platform has every really grabbed me.

[Josquius]

Schmigadoon was a fun short series.

[Josephus]

Bad Sisters was also a great series that ran on Apple. To me Apple is the best of the lot after a poor start. It doesn't have the catalogue , so if you just like to wrap up on a Friday night and watch anything, Netflix is your thing. But if you like new, original series I'd go with Apple.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting. I've never had it, but have heard from people that Apple TV is basically worth getting one of the free trials, watching all the good stuff and then cancelling.

[crazy canuck]

Interesting. I've never had it, but have heard from people that Apple TV is basically worth getting one of the free trials, watching all the good stuff and then cancelling.

Well, I suppose if you were going to watch TV 24/7 during the free period that would be possible.

There is a lot of good content.

[Syt]

Cheers Season 8. Episodes were broadcast in 1989, and it's interesting to contrast the look of a 1990 show with the early 1982 episodes.

The show has settled into a comfortable sitcom routine by now. Spotted two fun guest stars at ca. half way through S8.

Young Kevin Conroy plays a Red Sox player that Carla has the hots for. It would be two or three years before he would perform as Batman in the animated series, a role that would define most of his career.

A few episodes later, Lisa Kudrow in one of her first TV roles ... really weird to see her with black hair.

[viper37]

After Period of Chastity, Hollywood Movies Embrace Sex Again


Good.  Less China, better movies. 

Studios obsessively focused on PG-13 franchises and animation in recent years, but movies like "Challengers" and "Saltburn" show eroticism has returned.

Zendaya, clad in a skintight dress, gyrates on a dance floor in "Challengers," a $56 million sports drama that arrived in multiplexes on Friday. "It's getting hot in here," the hip-hop soundtrack intones, as she closes her eyes and runs her hands through her hair, lost in fantasy. "So take off all your clothes."
The story continues at a motel, where Zendaya, playing a tennis prodigy, begins a ménage à trois with two guys; it fizzles after they become more interested in each other. The plot moves on — to sultry interplay on the hood of a car, in a dorm room, in the back seat of a car, on the wooden slats of a sauna. There is erotic churro eating.


[...]

In the 2000s, however, film companies started to obsessively focus on PG-13 franchises and animation — genres that could play to a global audience and sell merchandise. Studios also wanted to expand into China, where censors do not allow sex scenes. As a result, steamy storytelling began to dwindle on the big screen (except at art house theaters). Premium television picked up the slack.
Sex in mainstream movies was "pretty much gone" by 2019, as Ann Hornaday, chief film critic for The Washington Post, wrote in a column that year. A few months later, Kate Hagen, writing in Playboy magazine, found that only about 1.2 percent of films released between 2010 and 2020 contained an overt sex scene, the lowest decade total since the 1960s. (It peaked in the 1990s. Coincidentally or not, that was the decade when pornography started to become available online.)


Now, some filmmakers are pushing back.
Awards season brought "Saltburn," with its arousing-disturbing bathtub scene and Barry Keoghan's twirling, full-frontal finale. "Poor Things" found an insatiable Emma Stone romping through a Paris brothel. Christopher Nolan filmed the first sex scenes of his 35-year career for "Oppenheimer." ("More interested in the joys of sex than any recent season I can remember," as Kyle Buchanan, awards columnist for The New York Times, described the crop of contenders in February.)

[Tamas]

Just remembered it: was The Onedin Line a hit in the UK back in the day? It was a fairly big deal in Hungary in the 80s.

[The Brain]

Last Night in Soho. Young woman with an interest in the 1960s gets into fashion school in London, but London can be overwhelming. Pretty good, it managed to keep my attention all the way through.

[garbon]

Last Night in Soho. Young woman with an interest in the 1960s gets into fashion school in London, but London can be overwhelming. Pretty good, it managed to keep my attention all the way through.

I loved it. Well apart from the Cilla Black references...

[Sheilbh]

Last Night in Soho. Young woman with an interest in the 1960s gets into fashion school in London, but London can be overwhelming. Pretty good, it managed to keep my attention all the way through.

I loved it. Well apart from the Cilla Black references...

History's greatest monster

I loved it too. Seem to remember critics weren't too impressed but I enjoyed it.

[Josquius]

The Marvels - very Meh. Had to do a lot of reading as it went along to check who people were and why things are this way.
The 306 year old guy confuses me.
It's a shame as it does seem to have a lot of the pieces where it could have been good.

[viper37]

Fast X.

I'm trying hard.  I think I've been trying for over a month now, maybe two.  Little by little every now and then I watch a few minutes before I get bored.

If it wasn't for Jason Momoa it would be very dull.  There's a lot of action scenes and car chases as usual, but nothing that ties it together.  It's as if the writers of this movie and the writers of Jurassic World III attended school together.  Or had a drug-induced revelation on how to make a "good" movie.  

I suspect there was a lot of smoke in the writers room.