Excellent 2nd episode, the way they are unfolding the historical arc of the NXIVM story makes for compulsive viewing and even if you already know the narrative and the individuals involved, it takes nothing away from the telling of the tale.

A much loved British institution featuring the voices of Terry Scott, David Jason among others - it’s amazing to think this cartoon spanned the entire eighties.
I’m just enjoying revisiting Daria and this is definitely on my animation list next!

If you like strange Japanese films like House, this is definitely one for you - Takashi Miike is one hell of a prolific genius.

If you’re a fan of Japanese cinema this is a must see - unlike a lot of American ‘teenage’films, Japanese coming of age cinema seems to focus as much on the internal subjective states of the adolescent mind as it does the outwards signifiers, such as obsession, bullying, criminality and family dynamics.
Great music in the Ambient/Ethereal style or whatever it is the media are currently calling it!

For those who have followed the entire NXIVM saga via the media or the Escaping NXIVM podcast series, this is the documentary that takes it to the next level with an extraordinary level of involvement by some of the main players in the group, couple this with incredible archive footage of the group and its members as well as its “official” media productions.
NXIVM is a truly fascinating phenomena, a sort of C21st Scientology with elements of hardcore BDSM, mind control, Clockwork Orange style deprogramming, sex cult practices,
a smattering of celebrities, media personalities and occasional members of the super rich.
With such a rich cocktail of elements, this is going to be one interesting documentary series.

Great 1971 made for TV movie that addresses the fears and tensions around the role of the computer and artificial intelligence in society, themes that were just starting to make inroads into popular culture.
Plus you get to see a very young Dean Stockwell!

I’m sure there hasn’t been one truly funny episode this season, but I’m still watching and living in hope like some eternal optimist, maybe I just need to let it go!

This show from many years ago is hilarious. I laugh til I almost wet myself. I used to watch this with my dad - he didn’t watch a lot of television but he never missed this and Get Smart. And of course Hockey Night in Canada. When I saw it here it brought back so many memories.

Kudos and much thanks to the kind soul who responded to my links request.
One of the lesser known UK films of the late sixties but well worth a watch - as the film poster says ‘She’s Top Banana’ plus there’s Donald Sutherland, what more could you need?

Absolute classic UKTV Sci-fi series featuring two of Britain’s great actors David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. This is one hell of a spooky series and along with Quatermass 1979 and Children of the Stones, this was my all time favourite series of the seventies.
Each season is a stand-alone story as the two ‘interdimensional operatives’ find themselves in the past, future and elsewhere, dealing with ruptures in the space-time continuum.

I’m so jaded about the hype surrounding DC/Marvel film/tv series that I didn’t bother watching Doom Patrol till last week - my huge mistake, but I caught up in time to catch the S2 finale today - what an incredible show, I feel like I’m finally back home in the DC Universe! The people behind this are the only ones I would trust to make a worthwhile adaptation of The Invisibles comic by Grant Morrison, now that would be something special.

I’d forgotten how good Daria was. I was an avid fan when it came out - actually it’s a revelation watching the animation in high quality, when it was beamed to UK television sets in nineties, clearly the quality left something to be desired!

One of my all time favourite Italo-Horror Soundtracks by maestro Nico Fidenco ‘Make Love On The Wing’ is the perfect track that only the Italians can do with any style.
Considering this was made in 1980 some of the electronic tracks anticipate techno, such was Nico’s genius.

Kudos to the poster for their efforts with the Please Sir! Series - I remember watching the re-runs in the late 70s/early 80s and even now, all these decades later, most of the ‘skool kidz’ still look like fully grown adults!
While there are some excellent British actors involved in the series, it has unsurprisingly dated though personally I love watching shows like this as they are a reminder of another world, where things were very different!

Very much of the experimental period of late sixties UK Films - of course its The Pink Floyd soundtrack that added to its mystique down the decades (I certainly had heard of the film many years before I saw it).
The main protagonist was played by real life Pop star Paul Jones from the sixties band Manfred Mann, fresh from starring across sixties icon Jean Shrimpton in the Peter Watkin’s 1967 dystopian musical film Privilege.
Worth a watch if you like art-house cinema, the music of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd or are just interested in the experimental artifacts of sixties Britain.

This is about as good as it gets - forget the remake, it’s all about the original Wim Wenders film. What makes this so good is the way it appeals across the board - whether you like more mainstream films or prefer the art-house type, it doesn’t matter, it’s just an incredible film - it did for Wenders what The Elephant Man did for David Lynch and though very different films, the genius of each director shines through.

While nothing will be quite like the first one, The God’s Must Be Crazy II is still absolutely hilarious and so well done, it is definitely one of those films that you become engrossed in without much effort. Highly recommended.

They made a new version? Thanks the gods I haven’t had a TV since Torrent sites began around 2003! All I would say is watch the 70s original its a classic of incestuous drama

Thank you, I will give it another go then.

What’s hilarious about this film is the fact that Roger Corman ‘unofficially’ appropriates large chunks of the 1962 Soviet Sci-fi classic ‘Planeta Bur’ or Planet of the Storms, directed by Pavel Klushantsev!
If you get through this, I highly recommend you track down the original Russian film which is a triumph of storyline and visual technique.

One of my all time favourite films and what makes this even more extraordinary is that many of the street kids in the film are exactly that, non-actors playing out real life roles - the documentary style feel only adds to the drama and it’s a film which will stay with you long after the credits roll.

Swap Shop or Tiswas? Growing up in seventies Britain, this was a crucial school playground question!

Absolutely essential viewing - along with the series Spiral and Bron, The Killing is one of the foundational shows that kicked off the whole modern Euro-Crime genre and it remains one of the best - Happy viewing!

I was really happily surprised at just how good the first two episodes of ‘Devil Among Us’ were. Most ID true crime series tend to follow a familiar structure with often amateurish reinactment scenes that really spoil the narrative for me.
This series is different, in style, content and length, they are more like the HBO true crime docs - and in the first two episodes at least, the stories are totally compelling, concerning multiple crimes I’ve never heard of till I watched this series.

One of the very best Italian ‘Giallo’ films in my opinion and if you are new to the genre then this is a good place to start.
It also contains one of the best Giallo Soundtracks ever made, by the legendary Italian band Goblin (they made a few incredible Soundtracks that feature in the films of Dario Argento, but this is probably their best known as many bands have covered the title track or sampled it.)

PS = if you haven’t already check out the excellent Giallo films list above the comments.

Chris Lilley is a genius, there are very few male actors in their 20s/30s who can pull off playing a spoilt teenage schoolgirl!
The humour is just spot on and I can’t recommend this enough along with his other series Jonah From Tonga (where he plays a delinquent indigenous Islander!) - the young supporting cast is excellent as well.

Oooh! Why have I not heard of this before?? I love the book, so an automatic add to my watch list.

That’s why I apologised at the beginning, as I thought it may have upset some people is was not intentional, I was just questioning why these sort of programs always seem to be coming mainly from the US, I am aware the Brits do it as well but they don’t seem to sensationalize them the way they do in the US.

This is an excellent TV adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, it really brings the book alive with its portrayal of a genetically engineered hedonistic control system.
Ironically, in terms of the current ‘cancel culture’ and the eradication of history, the book and the film is more relevant than ever.

Kudos to whoever has shared the lesser known Michael Cane films! This adaptation of the classic John Fowles novel is well worth a watch - though as its one of my favourite books (especially the original version) I feel compelled to say, viewing the film is richer and more satisfying when you’ve read the book - still, it’s a good film despite the fact it bombed at the box office!

Kudos and thanks to the person who posted the Armchair Thriller episodes. It was my favourite programme when I was 8/9 and though I hadn’t seen it for over 40 years, as soon as the theme music came on and I saw the opening episode, it felt like being transported back in time! All those familiar faces and now I can say what great acting and storylines there were - if you enjoy 70s UK television, this is essential viewing.

It’s only episode two but I guarantee ‘I’ll Be Gone In The Dark’ will be considered one of the top true crime documentary series of 2020.
What gives it its emotional depth is its focus on both the victims (the interviews are particularly harrowing and heartbreaking) and the affect it had on Michelle McNamara’s life as the case consumed her.

This a sure must watch. Listened to this case on the murder squad with Paul Holes and Billy Jenson. Holes worked with Michelle McNamara on her book before she died and was a lead investigator on The Golden State Killer cold case. If you check out their podcast they’ll tell you about the guy, where they were when they got the news about him and how they caught him after DNA evidence sealed his fate after decades of hiding. Crazy good stuff.

All the episodes are tragic but for this is a particular heartbreaking episode that uses the ‘’home footage’ angle to full effect.

Just to let everyone know, there are no English subtitles for this film, so this link is just for our Czech speaking friends sadly.
I’ve wanted to watch this film for years!

This is an excellent Soviet Era Russian sci-fi film and well worth a watch.

One of the great UK TV series of the eighties - the acting is just stunning with every actor giving a stand out performance
Likewise, the story line by Fay Weldon is mesmerising - I highly recommended this

Mebbe in todays courts this might have went a different way. I don’t know…but I believe the brothers.

The films of the late Czech director Karel Zeman are among the most innovative, entertaining and compelling you’ll ever watch in my opinion - both his live action and full animations are far better known in the non-English speaking world, but thankfully all his films are now subtitled in English and he deserves the widest possible exposure - as do other Eastern-European directors like Juraj Herz, Elisabeta Bostan, Jiri Menzel, Vera Chytilova, Ion Popescu-Gopo and Andrzej Zulawski to name but a few.

A relatively little known film, which given the powerful storyline, excellent acting and a creepy, uncanny atmosphere that pervades the film, makes little sense - definitely worth watching if you enjoy something a little different.

Often overshadowed by the success of Phoenix Nights, ‘That Peter Kay Thing’ is absolute comedy gold - many of the actors and characters of his later series Phoenix Nights are present, including his latest success Car Share.

Ion Popescu Gopo is one of the most under-rated directors of the twentieth century - all too little known outside Romania and Eastern Europe - you can find his later films with a little digging and many are fan-subbed .

One of the best UK children’s TV series of all time in my opinion - absolutely otherworldly and well worth repeated viewing.