What are you watching tonight?

[William the White]

History and mystery night. Tut-ankh-amun : The mystery revealed. 5 at 8-0'clock. But not tilll next week

The Bible's Buried Secrets, Part II. BBC 2, 9-0 clock. The female equivalent of Dan Brown goes off on another flight of fancy, heavily intersparsed with "I think. I don't believe, new evidence suggests, the Bible isn't telling the whole truth, mis-representing the past etc, "it's quite possible" etc, etc. All very big-eyed, dramatic voiced "revelations". The Bible is policyism and God had a wife. All rather desperate, suppression of feminism, and what else is new? . Much easier to just admit nobody really knows . Next week she's off to find the Garden of Eden. Can't wait.

Have you spotted her in Farnworth yet?

[TANGODANCER]

History and mystery night. Tut-ankh-amun : The mystery revealed. 5 at 8-0'clock. But not tilll next week

The Bible's Buried Secrets, Part II. BBC 2, 9-0 clock. The female equivalent of Dan Brown goes off on another flight of fancy, heavily intersparsed with "I think. I don't believe, new evidence suggests, the Bible isn't telling the whole truth, mis-representing the past etc, "it's quite possible" etc, etc. All very big-eyed, dramatic voiced "revelations". The Bible is policyism and God had a wife. All rather desperate, suppression of feminism, and what else is new? . Much easier to just admit nobody really knows . Next week she's off to find the Garden of Eden. Can't wait.

Have you spotted her in Farnworth yet?

No, I think it's somewhere in Cornwall Will.

[William the White]

i watched Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique) - french, subtitles - and good, I think. Very.

It's at one level a biopic of Serge Gainsbourg, composer, lyricist, singer, bohemian icon, womaniser (Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco, Jane Birkin), notorious drunk and professional insulter of French bourgeois values (of which the reggae version of the Marseillaise is my favourite) and, most famously, here, as writer of Je t'aime (moi non plus).

But it has a deeper story to tell as we meet the young Jewish boy in wartime Paris, wearing the yellow star, and see his journey through the gay bars, the sexual encounters, the transient fame, the violent hostility, and haunted always, by an alter-ego, 'the Jew', a version of a grotesque Nazi cartoon, with a huge nose, constantly prodding him forward, always dragging him back...

The film started as a graphic novel, i think, and here they try to graft the two, and i think they do it very well...

I liked it very, very much.

[P.O.S.]

Just come back from cinema watching "Unknown". Some great views of Berlin, but oh my word how the makers of the Bourne series arent smashing down the doors of the people who made this I'll never know!

Spoiler Alert!


Basically, Liam Neeson has an accident in Berlin and loses his memory; by the time he's remembered who he was (with the help of a traveller-type European girl with no official identity) it turns out he's a highly trained assassin with a box full of passports carrying different names for him and wads of different currencies and he was supposed to be in Berlin to knock off a scientist - all the while being hunted down by a group of his employers trying to "bring him in" and return him to his senses.

How did they get away with making this?! To be fair, it was quite a good watch for what it was, but it was just a mention of "Treadstone" away from being downright plagiarism!

[Prufrock]

History and mystery night. Tut-ankh-amun : The mystery revealed. 5 at 8-0'clock. But not tilll next week

The Bible's Buried Secrets, Part II. BBC 2, 9-0 clock. The female equivalent of Dan Brown goes off on another flight of fancy, heavily intersparsed with "I think. I don't believe, new evidence suggests, the Bible isn't telling the whole truth, mis-representing the past etc, "it's quite possible" etc, etc. All very big-eyed, dramatic voiced "revelations". The Bible is policyism and God had a wife. All rather desperate, suppression of feminism, and what else is new? . Much easier to just admit nobody really knows . Next week she's off to find the Garden of Eden. Can't wait.

I'm fairly sure it is a repeat. If not I've seen something VERY similar before. Watched about the first five minutes before, when they move him from his sarcophagus, thinking, why couldn't they leave the dead bloke alone. Annoys me that kinda stuff.

[TANGODANCER]

History and mystery night. Tut-ankh-amun : The mystery revealed. 5 at 8-0'clock. But not tilll next week

The Bible's Buried Secrets, Part II. BBC 2, 9-0 clock. The female equivalent of Dan Brown goes off on another flight of fancy, heavily intersparsed with "I think. I don't believe, new evidence suggests, the Bible isn't telling the whole truth, mis-representing the past etc, "it's quite possible" etc, etc. All very big-eyed, dramatic voiced "revelations". The Bible is policyism and God had a wife. All rather desperate, suppression of feminism, and what else is new? . Much easier to just admit nobody really knows . Next week she's off to find the Garden of Eden. Can't wait.

I'm fairly sure it is a repeat. If not I've seen something VERY similar before. Watched about the first five minutes before, when they move him from his sarcophagus, thinking, why couldn't they leave the dead bloke alone. Annoys me that kinda stuff.

To be honest it does me too. More so all the tomb treasures that end up in private collectors hands instead of museums. I like archeolgy and I can see the need for historical evidence as to identifying these guys but then seal the tombs up and let the bones rest in peace.

[boltonboris]

To be honest it does me too. More so all the tomb treasures that end up in private collectors hands instead of museums. I like archeolgy and I can see the need for historical evidence as to identifying these guys but then seal the tombs up and let the bones rest in peace.

I'd asumme it's the Museums selling this stuff to the private collectors.. Otherwise, who does it 'belong' to for that person to flog it? The diggers? I'm really not sure

[Raven]

Watched Kick-Ass the other night.. Didn't think I'd enjoy it.. Loved it!

Creepy I did the same thing last night and really enjoyed it too (after thinking I wouldn't)

It's nothing like I imagined it to be...

No i thought it was going to be some silly bad comedy with a meaning and a message etc etc was the complete opposite and the wee girl was incredible, well acted and believable, can't wait to see her in Let Me In and to see how it compares to the original Swedish offering which was really really good.

[boltonboris]

The Young Girl and Nicholas Cage made the film for me.. Brilliant little partnership

[TANGODANCER]

To be honest it does me too. More so all the tomb treasures that end up in private collectors hands instead of museums. I like archeolgy and I can see the need for historical evidence as to identifying these guys but then seal the tombs up and let the bones rest in peace.

I'd asumme it's the Museums selling this stuff to the private collectors.. Otherwise, who does it 'belong' to for that person to flog it? The diggers? I'm really not sure

And the countless generations of tomb robbers? Effectively, anything found in Egypt should belong to Egypt, not some private collector in America or wherever who locks it away in a private vault. No real use complaining though, treasure trove is treasure trove and so it will always be. Like all else, history is a market place. For me, every tomb discovery should be its own museum and remain intact at least as far as the occupants are concerned. If we need carbon dating etc, let it be one on site. Meanwhile, out in the real world and the Elgin Marbles, and the three and a half thousand year old guy who ends up in Bolton Museum etc.....

[William the White]

I watched Masterchef.

Total drama... amazing tension...

[Verbal]

Watched Submarine at the Cornerhouse.

Great film. Very funny and a bit sad at times. Recommended.

[Bruce Rioja]

I watched Masterchef.

Total drama... amazing tension...

I find it compulsive. In fact, it's the only thing on television that I find so to be.

[Lord Kangana]

Watched Submarine at the Cornerhouse.

Great film. Very funny and a bit sad at times. Recommended.

Without looking it up is that about the people who used to walk around Berlin all day, or have I totally miunderstood?

[William the White]

I watched Masterchef.

Total drama... amazing tension...

I find it compulsive. In fact, it's the only thing on television that I find so to be.

Yes - brilliant TV. And that sorbet with whisky and lapsang souchong sounded absolutely brilliant...

I start each day with one of those drinks...

not saying which...

[Verbal]

Watched Submarine at the Cornerhouse.

Great film. Very funny and a bit sad at times. Recommended.

Without looking it up is that about the people who used to walk around Berlin all day, or have I totally miunderstood?

Not quite

About a school kid from Wales trying to lose his virginity and save his parents marriage.

[Lord Kangana]

Aye, I just googled it.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Richard Ayoade I believe.

I find it hard to fathom how someone who is such a shite comic actor and writer managed to turn in such a decent 'serious' movie

[William the White]

Watched Four Lions. Very funny.

[BWFC_Insane]

Watched Four Lions. Very funny.

Wouldn't have had that down as "your type" of film.

But it is very funny I agree!