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4 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

I won’t say more so as not to spoil it for anyone but I really liked it and thought the performances were great.

Well done, I thought you were going to start talking about the bit with the werewolf ripping out both their throats - that would have spoiled it for everyone.

4 hours ago, Wolfie said:

4 episodes left of One Day and me & Mrs Wolfie are enjoying it. We'll probably finish it tonight.

...that is to say that I'm enjoying it now I've mostly managed to suspend my disbelief that the two of them would have ever got together right at the beginning, they're just so different in every possible way you can think of.

I can't remember if that was the case in the book (read it donkeys years ago) and haven't seen the film.

 

It's not quite as divided in the book as it is in the film or series. The book is a stonking read btw, sort of a book you plough through by the pool on holiday. 

Just finished Alice & Jack and enjoyed it a lot. The same point is present there though, hard to see how such a strong bond built between them when they spend the first two thirds of the series finding reasons to hate each other. Ulitmately, it feels like they took every rom com and threw them into a blender - you find yourself going "ah, that's from The Notebook, that's from The Holiday, that's from One Day" but it's a jolly watch for a few hours.

50 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Men going to Thailand to find (what they thought were) wives. What’s wrong with Plenty of Fish?

FTFY

People who take the last pie

Maybe Warne will play Wildsmith at left back against Port Vale?

I know we are all focusing on Cashin last night but the strange thing for me is that NML was having a bang average game and yet we kept punting it out to him, even when Corey Blackett Smith came on. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.

This team should be so much better than it is, in the like of Cashin, Nelson, NML, Gayle, Hourihane (supposedly), Bird we have stand out players in this league throughout our team. We should be tearing it a new one. And that is not arrogant or "we're a big club in the wrong division" it is just that with these players we should not be letting teams like Wycombe, Charlton, Shrewsbury, Lincoln, Reading take points off us. Currently, we are nowhere near top two quality yet we should be eating this league alive.

7 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

I actually liked both series. Alice and Jack is different because he just finds himself obsessed by her, in spite of all her inconsistencies and insecurities.

One Day was more of a Jane Austen style love story, and had a more lasting effect on me. I had no idea of the story and didn’t know anything about the film. I would say I enjoyed it more but Alice and Jack was very good.

I loved the One Day book, devoured it in 24 hours. I'm also in the minority that I liked the film, I just thought it worked and it is exactly my timeline so nostalgia was high. I'm still only two episodes in of Alice and Jack so don't spoil it - if we're three down after twenty minutes tonight I might switch to episode three.

·       Edge Of Darkness

·       Ashes To Ashes (just for the final scene)

·       Hill Street Blues

·       Northern Exposure

·       Star Trek (original series)

·       Quantum Leap

·       X Files

·       Tales Of The Unexpected (till the Americans got hold of it and it turned into Tales Of The Bleeding Obvious)

·       Boys From The Blackstuff

·       Our Friends In The North

On 18/02/2024 at 20:24, Anag Ram said:

You quit too early!

Ambika Mod is far more believable than Hathaway as the girl whose charms are overlooked. She has more natural humour and charisma.

If you haven't already, give Alice and Jack a try on Channel 4. Angela Riseborough and Dominic Gleeson (plus a robust support from Aisling Bea). Two episodes in and find it so much of what I was hoping to get from One Day. Well scripted, genuine chemistry between the leads, a bit of aching over what a mess they seem to want to make of it all. Well worth it, and I hope it continues in the same vein.

13 hours ago, Wolfie said:

Don’t worry darling. 
 

The fabulous Florence Pugh is the wife of a man (Harry Styles) who works at the mysterious Victory project in an idyllic oasis town in the middle of a desert. On the surface, all of the families are living the perfect life in an American 1950s utopia but of course all is not what it seems. 
 

Not entirely original but sumptuous design and of course Ms Pugh. Enjoyed it. 
 

7/10

Great soundtrack as well, yes it has some plot holes but far from the worst film you'll see this year.

Memory: Jennifer Chastain plays a troubled care worker who goes to a school reunion and is reminded of an event that happened during her time there. At the same time one of the attendees is also suffering from early onset dementia. Sadly the film really doesn't live up to the premise of uncovering what happened, who is at fault and what the point of our memories are. Even Chastain couldn't carry it - I expected something quite interesting but it just never got there. Hence:

Kamil Jozwiak / 10

32 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

4/  Far too many people worry/concern themselves/give consideration to stuff that they can do nothing about.

Good point, well made. I came into the chat for chance to have a rant about how it can't be right that Peter Sutcliffe gets to keep his passport while a 15 year old girl groomed and pretty much trafficked doesn't, how having a second passport means you can have your British one taken off you (but only if you have a second one) seems kinda, well, racist.

But I read your post and I thought - you know what, that gadgie makes a good point. Cheers to you for it.

9 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

That jokes probably older than you.

🙂

Jethro isn't it?

It's happening - offical site just X'ed this - I think I like this more than the actual signing. Very good!

Frankie Boyle: it was good, strangely I liked it less the more time has passed and I've had a bit of time to mull it over. Lot of his content I had seen before on other shows, he was full of cold apparently but it felt a little dialled in.

Stewart Lee: usually love him but he was in a particulalry truculent mood and lost the room a bit (his whole thing was that it was a spillover gig, sold out the first night so put a second one on, and all the people in the audience were people who weren't really that bothered to make sure they got a ticket). Still a cracking night out but maybe not the best night I've seen him deliver

Jonathan Pie: There's a lot of energy in it, I wasn't really looking forward to being ranted at for one hour about much I kind of know to be true. There was a bit of that, preaching to a choir given the audience. But he had some great content, even if the last twenty felt like he was just stretching it out a bit.

Based On A True Story: Premise is that a couple (one of which is Kaley Cuoco) of true crime fans work out the identity of a current serial killer and convince him to make a podcast about his murders. The first couple of episodes are interesting, there's some good humour and the plot runs along nicely as they work out how this is all going to pan out. Then, by about episode five, you realise they are all out of ideas on how to move it forward and the whole show gets silly and self consuming.

But no worries, they've only got eight episodes so they can bring it all home in time without it getting too flabby, can't they? Get to the end of Episode 8 and, cliff hanger, they've set it all up for a second series. Why, oh why (rhetorical) do they do this? Why can't they just tell the story, wrap it, without having to stretch the whole thing so thin it eats itself alive - as this will do (without me) in series two.

On 16/02/2024 at 07:17, Anag Ram said:

Been watching One Day on Netflix. Love story around the relationship between a Northern lass looking for love and commitment and a posh boy who wants to have his cake and eat it.

The one day is the 15th July across a number of years. I started half watching it, thinking it was just another romcom but it definitely is a level above that.

Episodes are short and there’s a real depth to the writing. Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall (White Lotus) are great in the lead roles. 

Might be getting soft in my old age, but I’m really looking forward to seeing how it pans out!
 

Sorry, did the first one and quit. Anne Hathaway got pelters for the film but the point is that Emma is supposed to be that girl Dexter never noticed but as soon as he does he realizes she is gorgeous. The girl in the series just doesn't have that allure and sense of mystery about her. And Dexs parents aren't as good as the film either.

On 09/02/2024 at 11:20, Anag Ram said:

I really enjoyed Here we go on BBC1. 

Lovely, family comedy, beautifully acted.

Agree, I'm a big fan of Katherine Parkinson. She does knowing glances and exasperation as well as anyone. If your ever hear her interviewed you get the feeling she's pretty similar in real life.

As for CYE, it is just the cleverest and best written comedy of the last few years. I struggle to think of anything out of the States that betters it.

3 hours ago, Crewton said:

I got lucky - saw him about 8 years ago in a small venue and he was superb - he was even in a good mood! 😅

Yeah, I've also heard that when he's good he's special. To be fair, one of the times I saw him was at Wembley Arena - I think you could see The Beatles supported by Jimi Hendrix (with Janis Joplin on backing vocals) there and it would still be underwhelming.

4 minutes ago, richinspain said:

 

I only got into Van Morrison a few years ago. Absolutely love most of his stuff.

My personal favourite.

It is wonderful, I would say though don't spoil it by going to see him live. I've done it three times now and he has been less than average on each occasion.

2023/24: 10th February (Sheffield Utd)

2022/23: 26th December (Wolves)

2021/22: 23rd January (Burnley)

2020/21: 4th March (Sheffield United)

2019/20: 22nd December (Watford)

2018/19: 27th February (Huddersfield)

2017/18: 13th December (Swansea)

2016/17: 19th December (Sunderland)

2015/16: 18th January (Aston Villa)

2014/15: 29th December (Leicester)

2013/14: 26th December (Sunderland)

2012/13: 2nd January (QPR)

2011/12: 31st December (Blackburn)

2010/11: 27th November (Wolves and West Ham)

2009/10: 19th December (Portsmouth)

2008/9: 8th November (Spurs)

• The Blunts now are the third club (after Sunderland and Wolves) to achieve the feat twice.
• This is the third closest any team has come after, strangely, Sheffield United in 2021 and Huddersfield in 2019. To put it into perspective, Sheffield United still passed eleven points a full 48 days before 29th March, which is the date we were relegated in 2008.
• This record is going nowhere.....

17 hours ago, Gritstone Ram said:

Happy Clods day.

Well done, you've made my day remembering

Anyone who ever considered subscribing to a doorbell in the first place deserves everything that they get. Sorry but!

1 hour ago, Mucker1884 said:

Thanks mate.  👍

All was going so well, until I noticed the angle of those lines.  Why on earth didn't they just draw them vertically/perpendicular to the bloody side lines!  🤣

You need to get some perspective 😉