What are you watching tonight?

[KeyserSoze]

Have binged watched nearly every episode of Rick and Morty in the last couple of days. Really funny cartoon. Often stupid, sometimes clever, but mainly funny. Which is good.

[General Mannerheim]

Watched Gamechangers on iplayer this morning. The story of Rockstar Games legal feud against bible bashing lawyer Jack Thompson over the violence and sex depicted in GTA games. Potentially interesting topic let down by terrible acting, poor script and Harry fkin Potter. Probably still worth checking out tho, esp if you play GTA...

I've never seen a Harry Potter film but cant abide anything ive seen him in as a grown up...

[Harry Genshaw]

Watched Rise of the planet of the apes this afternoon which has been on the planner for ages.

Jeez - Charlton Heston must have been turning in his grave when they released that 5hite

[Il Pirate]

Didn't know whether to put this in here or the painting thread. Has anyone seen the Sky show 'Painting...(insert name of celebrity)'. I caught Painting Fabrice Muamba the other night. The guy who won 'Portrait Artist of the year' & who painted Amir Khan, (Which Bruce was enthusing about recently); does the portrait, (or several!). A very enjoyable watch. Sky arts iirc

[Bruce Rioja]

Didn't know whether to put this in here or the painting thread. Has anyone seen the Sky show 'Painting...(insert name of celebrity)'. I caught Painting Fabrice Muamba the other night. The guy who won 'Portrait Artist of the year' & who painted Amir Khan, (Which Bruce was enthusing about recently); does the portrait, (or several!). A very enjoyable watch. Sky arts iirc

Did he paint Elvis?

[thebish]

continuing Pirate's theme... I watched this the other day whilst thrashing out 30mins on the cross-trainer... absolutely fascinating - not least the sections on Churchill and his portraits and the stories behind them...

rcommended to anyone - not just arts people. I notice there is now a second episode listed - so I may watch that one too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e-of-power

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture. Simon looks at the eternal power of portraiture and sees how it can foster loyalty and control.

[Gary the Enfield]

Didn't know whether to put this in here or the painting thread. Has anyone seen the Sky show 'Painting...(insert name of celebrity)'. I caught Painting Fabrice Muamba the other night. The guy who won 'Portrait Artist of the year' & who painted Amir Khan, (Which Bruce was enthusing about recently); does the portrait, (or several!). A very enjoyable watch. Sky arts iirc

Did he paint Elvis?

Who's Elvis? Has he heard of Ronnie Pickering?

[jmjhb]

Off to watch Sicario tonight. The first of many excellent films I am awaiting the release of this autumn/winter.

[General Mannerheim]

you already seen The Martian and Macbeth? theyre on my list before Sicario. like you say they tend to stack up this time of year...

[jmjhb]

The Martian, yes. Very enjoyable. An intelligent sci-fi is always welcome. I must admit Matt Damon had it a little easier than his book counterpart though.

I'm yet to see Macbeth but it is definitely on the list...which seems to be a bit longer than usual (and not just the Oscar hopefuls either).

Maybe because this year up to now has been particularly shoddy for films, especially when you don't buy into the superhero guff and get sick of Marvel/whoever churning out the same film several times a year.

[TANGODANCER]

Didn't know whether to put this in here or the painting thread. Has anyone seen the Sky show 'Painting...(insert name of celebrity)'. I caught Painting Fabrice Muamba the other night. The guy who won 'Portrait Artist of the year' & who painted Amir Khan, (Which Bruce was enthusing about recently); does the portrait, (or several!). A very enjoyable watch. Sky arts iirc

Did he paint Elvis?

Who's Elvis? Has he heard of Ronnie Pickering?

Elvis and Spartacus are Ronnie's younger brothers.

[Bijou Bob]

continuing Pirate's theme... I watched this the other day whilst thrashing one out for 30mins on the cross-trainer... absolutely fascinating - not least the sections on Churchill and his portraits and the stories behind them...

rcommended to anyone - not just arts people. I notice there is now a second episode listed - so I may watch that one too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e-of-power

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture. Simon looks at the eternal power of portraiture and sees how it can foster loyalty and control.

I hoped you wiped up afterwards.

[TANGODANCER]

continuing Pirate's theme... I watched this the other day whilst thrashing out 30mins on the cross-trainer... absolutely fascinating - not least the sections on Churchill and his portraits and the stories behind them...

rcommended to anyone - not just arts people. I notice there is now a second episode listed - so I may watch that one too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e-of-power

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture. Simon looks at the eternal power of portraiture and sees how it can foster loyalty and control.

Just watched both episodes on i-player.. Fascinating stuff, thanks for the heads up.

[William the White]

continuing Pirate's theme... I watched this the other day whilst thrashing out 30mins on the cross-trainer... absolutely fascinating - not least the sections on Churchill and his portraits and the stories behind them...

rcommended to anyone - not just arts people. I notice there is now a second episode listed - so I may watch that one too!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... e-of-power

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture. Simon looks at the eternal power of portraiture and sees how it can foster loyalty and control.

Just watched both episodes on i-player.. Fascinating stuff, thanks for the heads up.

Yeah, was good. Very.

[thebish]

just noticed that Homeland is back on tonight - series 5 - channel 4, 9pm - episode 1 of 12!

[bobo the clown]

just noticed that Homeland is back on tonight - series 5 - channel 4, 9pm - episode 1 of 12!

Which is great ... so long as they don't start trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. The Yanks do tend to make something run till it loses energy.

[thebish]

just noticed that Homeland is back on tonight - series 5 - channel 4, 9pm - episode 1 of 12!

Which is great ... so long as they don't start trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. The Yanks do tend to make something run till it loses energy.

aye... true dat!

[General Mannerheim]

Yeah I gave up half way thru S4

[Harry Genshaw]

An Argentinian film this evening -The secret in their eyes - picked it up on a recommendation and really pleased I did. A clever and tense thriller based on a retired prosecutor writing a book on an unsolved case he'd worked on. 8/10

[thebish]

before I face the disappointment of homeland series 5 - I am experiencing the disappointment of the latest series of Walking Dead which has just turned up on Netflix... watched the first 3 or 4 - I no longer really care about any of the characters!

i did quite enjoy Bloodline, though - even if the ending was entirely geared towards setting up storylines for a second series...