TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

'Bronx' nice to see a drama/thriller about police corruption that isn't set in Chicago, LA, New York or London.

The Bronx is part of New York though...

No it's just the film's title in this instance. 

I tried to look up the film to learn something about it but when I searched 'Bronx Movie' I just got the 1990s movie 'A Bronx Tale' so I wasn't sure what you were talking about.

[HVC]

Rogue City maybe? Looks like it's called Bronx in French. Does it have a meaning in French?

[HVC]

Also, a Bronx tale is decent enough. Kid grew up to be a drug dealer IRL.

[Grey Fox]

Rogue City maybe? Looks like it's called Bronx in French. Does it have a meaning in French?

France french uses it to mean something that is out of control, chaos.

[mongers]

Rogue City maybe? Looks like it's called Bronx in French. Does it have a meaning in French?

France french uses it to mean something that is out of control, chaos.

Thanks, that's very interesting and totally makes sense regarding the film's theme.

Yes, apparently it's called 'rogue city' in the US/Britain, which seems a bit naff for a title.

[Gups]

Also, a Bronx tale is decent enough. Kid grew up to be a drug dealer IRL.

I always liked the mafia v Hell's Angel pub brawl.

[HVC]

Rogue City maybe? Looks like it's called Bronx in French. Does it have a meaning in French?

France french uses it to mean something that is out of control, chaos.

Thanks, that's interesting... and maybe racist

[Duque de Bragança]

Rogue City maybe? Looks like it's called Bronx in French. Does it have a meaning in French?

France french uses it to mean something that is out of control, chaos.

Thanks, that's interesting... and maybe racist

Not just the French. 



Italian movie, heavily inspired by some US films.

From the '70s to the 90's Bronx was just a by word of lawless zone (a really wild banlieue), e.g

cet endroit c'est le Bronx/pire que le Bronx

, thanks to all the American films and their knock-offs shown on all screens. 

I am not sure (all) people under 35 would get the reference, however.

[Josephus]

Watched The Blitz on Apple TV yesterday. Quite disappointed. Oliver Twist set during the blitz. Was hoping to see Churchill on the Tube.

[Hansmeister]

Watched The Blitz on Apple TV yesterday. Quite disappointed. Oliver Twist set during the blitz. Was hoping to see Churchill on the Tube.

I don't think Churchill would've been caught dead on the Tube.

I just finished watching the Israeli series Fauda on Netflix. I liked it, despite having to read subtitles quite a lot (the hebrew is dubbed, but the arabic isn't).

[Josquius]

Rumble in the Bronx. One of Jackie Chan's best. Actually set in the Bronx. You can tell from the mountains in the background.


My eldest has recently gotten into a series of books about a boy named Harry who seems to live in quite an idyllic village in Yorkshire with his family.
 In most of them he has a bucket of toy dinosaurs which he imagines to talk to him and he has generally pretty down to earth regular 3/4 year old kid experiences.

Discovered on youtube...20 years ago this was made into an animated series.
...its American. Very American.
Harry jumps into his bucket and goes to the dinosaur world where he has wacky high end adventures.
Its like the way they used to do superhero adaptations.

[Sheilbh]

Was on iPlayer and they have lots of the Bank Holiday epics already up.

It slightly blew my mind that those 50s epics that I remember watching on TV and a lot of them are basically the length of a Marvel film

I suppose kids these days just have a better attention span than I did.

[mongers]

Was on iPlayer and they have lots of the Bank Holiday epics already up.

It slightly blew my mind that those 50s epics that I remember watching on TV and a lot of them are basically the length of a Marvel film

I suppose kids these days just have a better attention span than I did.

I wonder if part of it is that editing might be cheaper now and once the 'film is in the can' the costs of manipulating it and producing final cuts could well a lot less expensive than processing and assembling generations of film stock?  So perhaps that helps to make films longer/more tedious?

[Sheilbh]

Reminds me of an older lawyer saying track changes in Word processors plus email is the worst technological development for lawyers because it makes them feel like they have to do something. When mark ups shared with the other side by fax, you'd only make the changes you really needed to

[mongers]

Reminds me of an older lawyer saying track changes in Word processors plus email is the worst technological development for lawyers because it makes them feel like they have to do something. When mark ups shared with the other side by fax, you'd only make the changes you really needed to

Have you heard about Dolly Parton's attitude to technology and her continued use of fax machines? 


Edit:
Oh senior moment here, just remembered I used to occasionally cut up, splice and edit film  working at a video company. Nothing dodgy, despite having found quite a bit of porn in the film library, which nobody seemed to own or claim before I threw it away.