What are you watching tonight?

[William the White]

We watched Hannah Arendt (German, English, Yiddish).

An extraordinary film about an extraordinary woman. She was the philosopher who coined the phrase 'the banality of evil' to describe Eichmann performance at his trial. And whose criticism of Jewish elders' collaboration with the Nazis led to outrage - which she courageously faced down, to her great cost.

This is cinema of ideas, of debate. We found it totally gripping.

[ChrisC]

Just watched Captain Phillips.

Fantastic!

[2399]

'On the Yorkshire Buses' follows the men and women on staff at the East Yorkshire Motor Services - Yorkshire's biggest family-run bus company, based in Hull.


I Will watch it one day!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Just watched Captain Phillips.

Fantastic!

Is it just?!

Have Dallas Buyers Club to watch at some point. I seem to recall that it received mixed reviews on here.

[Worthy4England]

Just watched FIFA World Cup 2010, documentary on BBC2. Behind the scenes look with lots of interviews with players, organisers, managers, Howard Webb etc. Well worth a look on catch up if you've an hour to spare.

Anyone who says the national team is less important than club, only needs to listen to Iniesta and Puyol etc.

[Prufrock]

QT. Proper loon in the crowd shouting at them is funny.

[Beefheart]

I watched 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' last night. It was pretty stupid, someone even said at one point 'I love Chimpanzee's but most people are scared of them'. Who?! I've never met anyone scared of Chimps! And there was such a stereotypical businessman that if you changed every one of his lines to him just saying the word 'profit' it wouldn't make a difference. Not bad overall though. 3 1/2 stars.

[Beefheart]

Off to watch Boyhood at the Cornerhouse after work, never been there before but it seems that Boyhood isn't showing anywhere in Bolton yet.

[William the White]

Off to watch Boyhood at the Cornerhouse after work, never been there before but it seems that Boyhood isn't showing anywhere in Bolton yet.

My favourite cinema.

But 'Boyhood' on at Cineworld in the valley from Friday 18th.

[Beefheart]

Off to watch Boyhood at the Cornerhouse after work, never been there before but it seems that Boyhood isn't showing anywhere in Bolton yet.

My favourite cinema.

But 'Boyhood' on at Cineworld in the valley from Friday 18th.

I can't wait that long

[Beefheart]

Off to watch Boyhood at the Cornerhouse after work, never been there before but it seems that Boyhood isn't showing anywhere in Bolton yet.

Highly recommend it! Amazing film.

[Bruce Rioja]

Celebrity Masterchef Final. Right here, right now.

[bobo the clown]

"The £15 billion Railway" ... the building of Crossrail.

Bloody Hell.

[Il Pirate]

I've become addicted to Romanzo Criminale on sky catch up/box set stuff. Italian gangster shit with hot babes included

[CrazyHorse]

Eddie Murphy's Coming to America is on E4.
It's a 26 year old film. 26!

[Bruce Rioja]

Biffy Clyro. Could ever a band be better described as being average? Oh, hang on, here come the Kaiser Chiefs.

[Prufrock]

Biffy Clyro. Could ever a band be better described as being average? Oh, hang on, here come the Kaiser Chiefs.

The biggest sell out ever.

The year after Rage Against the Machine got the Xmas number 1 protest vote, Biffy (or their managers) licensed out their song to be the X Factor single. It was not only awful, but it was cringeworthily sanitised with the intrinsically inappropriate song 'Many of Horror' having it's name changed to 'When We Collide' (the first line of the chorus). So Biffy get royalties for the X Factor single. They then also got royalties from the counter campaign, in the vein of the Rage effort, to make their original single the 'Counter' number 1. So if you bought the X Factor single, Biffy got paid; if you went renegade and bought the actual version, Biffy also got paid. This set against one of the most banal, awful albums ever produced, which they swiftly followed with a shitter double album.

But, as the saying goes, you can't sell out if you never bought in. To describe them as average is to completely miss the first ten years. Puzzle is, in my opinion, the greatest hardcore crossover album there has ever been. You can't listen to Blackened Sky, The Vertigo of Bliss, or particularly (good or bad) Infinity Land and describe any as 'average'. I don't think, as much as we do share tastes in certain areas, that any or your cup of tea, but none are average.

There are so many brilliantly simple simple singles form the early days, and then screechy brilliance in the middle but you can't describe anything up to and including Puzzle as average IMO.





(It's not 'average').

[Beefheart]

I think we can all agree that the Kaiser Chiefs are shit though.

[Burnden Paddock]

I don't. Should I feel ashamed/embarrassed/humiliated??

[bobo the clown]

I don't. Should I feel ashamed/embarrassed/humiliated??

Let me know when you find out & I'll join you.