What are you watching tonight?

[TANGODANCER]

Think I might saddle up and watch Dawn Raider. tonight. Westerns are pretty rare these day and it doesn't look to have too bad reviews.

Tango - My stepfather is a Western devotee. Whenever they used to put a Western on on TV on a Sunday afternoon he'd invariably ruin it for the rest of us, him having seen it in 1950+odd at 'The Belle'?

Any decent recent ones I can buy for him on DVD that you'd care to recco?

I'm maybe not the best one to give an opinion there mate as I'm way out of date on cinema. I did see one not long back called (I think) The Outsider, and of course True Grit. I found this link you can look at as a guide:

http://www.moviemail.com/film-shop/coll ... -Westerns/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Edit....3-10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and Apaloosa with Ed Harris are both decent. Yes, I'd recommend both...

[Bruce Rioja]

Think I might saddle up and watch Dawn Raider. tonight. Westerns are pretty rare these day and it doesn't look to have too bad reviews.

Tango - My stepfather is a Western devotee. Whenever they used to put a Western on on TV on a Sunday afternoon he'd invariably ruin it for the rest of us, him having seen it in 1950+odd at 'The Belle'?

Any decent recent ones I can buy for him on DVD that you'd care to recco?

I'm maybe not the best one to give an opinion there mate as I'm way out of date on cinema. I did see one not long back called (I think) The Outsider, and of course True Grit. I found this link you can look at as a guide:

http://www.moviemail.com/film-shop/coll ... -Westerns/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers, Tango. I'll have a look through. Please do tip me the nod on anything decent you come across.

[TANGODANCER]

Think I might saddle up and watch Dawn Raider. tonight. Westerns are pretty rare these day and it doesn't look to have too bad reviews.

Tango - My stepfather is a Western devotee. Whenever they used to put a Western on on TV on a Sunday afternoon he'd invariably ruin it for the rest of us, him having seen it in 1950+odd at 'The Belle'?

Any decent recent ones I can buy for him on DVD that you'd care to recco?

I'm maybe not the best one to give an opinion there mate as I'm way out of date on cinema. I did see one not long back called (I think) The Outsider, and of course True Grit. I found this link you can look at as a guide:

http://www.moviemail.com/film-shop/coll ... -Westerns/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers, Tango. I'll have a look through. Please do tip me the nod on anything decent you come across.

Will do.

[General Mannerheim]

Went to see Frank.

Took me too long to realise, and get over the disappointment that it wasn't gonna be a film about the comic capers of Frank Sidebottom off the telly to really enjoy the film in its own right.

[bwfcdan94]

Isn't it an American version with an American playing Frank Sidebottom. Disgraceful.

[Gary the Enfield]

Isn't it an American version with an American playing Frank Sidebottom. Disgraceful.

Michael Fassbender isn't it?

Irish.

[KeyserSoze]

Playing an American, though.

Either way it's going to be great so shhhhhhhh. Hoping to catch it tomorrow I think.

[General Mannerheim]

it was Frank Sidebottoms head, but that was the only connection with Chris Sievey’s character as far as i could tell, apart from them being in a band.

like i said, it wasnt what i was expecting at all, but i can see its merits, its very cool but quite dark and subdued, funny too and great acting. i would like to see it again to enjoy it properly.

[Beefheart]

About half way through the first season of Game of Thrones. They seem to have a habit of having something exciting happen at the end of episodes to make you want to watch the next episode, but it works!

I swear HBO shows must have to meet a BPE (Boobs Per Episode) quota though...

[Bruce Rioja]

it was Frank Sidebottoms head, but that was the only connection with Chris Sievey’s character as far as i could tell, apart from them being in a band.

like i said, it wasnt what i was expecting at all, but i can see its merits, its very cool but quite dark and subdued, funny too and great acting. i would like to see it again to enjoy it properly.

Recco or not then, General? I used to thoroughly enjoy Frank Sidebottom and I'm not sure I want my memories ruining. (I'm sure Sievey also had a character called 'Timperley Tim' but I can't find anything)

[General Mannerheim]

nah definite recco.

[Prufrock]

My brain just can't get past 'Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal in a film based on Frank Sidebottom. How the shitfeck did that happen?!' It just does not compute. I don't know where to start with what I think it might be!

[Bruce Rioja]

nah definite recco.

Cheers. I've put it on reserve. Just read a good review of it in The Guardian which basically says that it isn't for everyone but ' for those who like their movies to dance to a different beat, it is something rather exceptional.'

[General Mannerheim]

My brain just can't get past 'Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal in a film based on Frank Sidebottom. How the shitfeck did that happen?!' It just does not compute. I don't know where to start with what I think it might be!

its not based on Frank Sidebottom tho, just looks like him. thats the trouble.

take that knowledge in and you'll enjoy it.

[Bruce Rioja]

Really looking forward to From There to Here starting on the 22nd.

I Am Kloot have done the music for it too, so brilliance guaranteed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/progin ... re-to-here" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Prufrock]

That looks really good.

I was 8 when that happened, but whilst I remember Scotland v England, Gazza's goal, Seaman's save really clearly, I have absolutely no memory if the IRA bomb. I've obviously always know it happened but always assumed it was earlier (before clicking that link I'd have guessed '93) as I thought I'd have been aware of stuff like that happening by the time I was 8. Clearly not. I remember Labour winning the '97 election, and the Soho nail-bombings in '99 though. Odd the scraps that your brain keeps from childhood.

[General Mannerheim]

blimey, i was 16. I obviously remember the bomb going off, and Euro 96 was like the theme to our first summer as grown ups having left school n'that. but i have never associated these events as being at the same time as each other in my mind until just now! weird.

[Bruce Rioja]

At the time I was living 5 miles outside the city centorr. I remember it well. A beautiful Saturday morning, Our Kid had crashed over. Sat eating a puncture-repair-kit breakfast watching TV when all of a sudden there was an enormous rumble of what we assumed to be thunder, but it was a gorgeous day under blue skies. We looked at each other quizzically, questioned it, then both went back to watching telly.

It was only when I read the article to which I posted the link that I realised that it was the same time as Euro 96.

[General Mannerheim]

Ive just finished rattling through the first three seasons of HBO's 'Girls'

Did you ever see 'How to Make it in America'? I loved that but it was cancelled after two series'. I think maybe Girls was the reason why, its quite similar but, but with more of a female outlook.

Such a great show. brilliant characters, and remarkably created, written, produced and directed by a 25yr old Lena Dunham. brilliant.

[Beefheart]

Ive just finished rattling through the first three seasons of HBO's 'Girls'

Did you ever see 'How to Make it in America'? I loved that but it was cancelled after two series'. I think maybe Girls was the reason why, its quite similar but, but with more of a female outlook.

Such a great show. brilliant characters, and remarkably created, written, produced and directed by a 25yr old Lena Dunham. brilliant.

Seen the first 2 series. Any idea where I can watch the 3rd?