Stinkypup

Thanks JamesM for the heads up The Walking Dead is back! Walking the dog in drizzle isn't quite so bad now

magnumpi

"Lie to me" is good with Tim Roth. I am still on series one of 3. Is easy to find on Netflix or a PC.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/

Oink

Spike Island was a fun film. Brought back a lot of good hazy memories of that era.

bats

Yeah, that's good. He's sexy in an unsavoury way.

Oakvillian

Spacey as Underwood still, IMO, isn't as good as Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart. Particularly on the fourth-wall thing - Urquhart was more co-conspirator with the audience, whereas Underwood is a bit more "look how clever I am" IMO. But then again, the House of Commons is a different animal to Capitol Hill.

I agree with Bristol - don't know how much further FU's character can go. I'll be streaming season 4 when it arrives, but I hope the makers don't fall into the temptation of keeping it going after it's run its course.

Shard

I would say the JJ Abrams Star Trek films do a good job of catching the essence of the original series. I watched them on TV, if that counts.

BristolUK

Yes, they did.

In the original series - known as TOS - there was an episode where Kirk and his landing party were returning from a planet but due to some sort of storm they were beamed aboard an Enterprise in a parallel universe, while the same landing party from that parallel universe were beamed to "our" Enterprise.

What we saw on TOS was how Kirk and the others dealt with the situation - the 'other' Enterprise crew were not nice people.

Star Trek Continues (STC) made a sequel to this episode where we follow the 'other' Kirk after it begins with the ending of TOS. It's seamless - other than being different actors but it all looks authentic.

Star Trek Continues

Atlantic Xpat

The criticism of Spacey's Underwood is that he is so much smarter than everyone else & that's not believable. i.e. his plots and machinations always succeed when they shouldn't. That changed in series 3 IMHO with the characters of the Russian President & Dunbar, the democratic challenger being particularly strong. It'll be interested to see where Season 4 goes - the first of which I watched before work this morning!

I recently rewatched the UK version & it still stands the test of time. Ian Richardson is absolutely glorious in a completely different way to the Kevin Spacey character. I enjoy both though.

BristolUK

Another for The Night Manager. Just watched part one tonight and I'll likely go straight to parts 2 & 3 tomorrow.

Tell you what, if the rumours about Tom Hiddlestone are true he'll be every bit as good as Daniel Craig.

MillieF

I completely agree with this AX. Ian Richardson was spellbindingly, dryly, evily wonderful. I really didn't think Kevin Spacey could pull it off, but he did in spades....I also liked the transision to the US as it explained more of their political system...about which I am permanently confused.

BristolUK

I never even try to understand the US system.

Something that can put the likes of Reagan, Arnie, Palin and Trump into positions of power isn't really worth understanding is it.

BristolUK

Loving the locations in The Night Manager.

BristolUK

BristolUK

Line of Duty back for a third series soon.
'The easiest way to kill someone? Be a cop' – Line of Duty, the police show for our times | Television & radio | The Guardian
Very like Between The Lines from a good few years ago.

Stinkypup

I'm loving the recent episodes of The Walking Dead- nicely flipping from one character group to another... Who can resist a good storyline, pretty good script and a few slavering zombies...? Apart from Snoop that is