What DVD have you just watched?
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005
Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'
All the best from Fredrik
All the best from Fredrik
We did one series in 8 Tony! 
It is damned good though. We just watched series 7 of Spooks too. (Santa very thoughtfully put it in Rachel's stocking!). That is also an excellent series.
It is damned good though. We just watched series 7 of Spooks too. (Santa very thoughtfully put it in Rachel's stocking!). That is also an excellent series.
We watched this last night -
Quite brilliant IMO. Even SWMBO, who's no great fan of war films, enjoyed it. Very tense, with some pretty complex characters and a great sense of realism.
Quite brilliant IMO. Even SWMBO, who's no great fan of war films, enjoyed it. Very tense, with some pretty complex characters and a great sense of realism.
STING: A WINTER'S NIGHT
Live from Durham Cathedral
Contains the complete concert and an additional documentary disc
Live from Durham Cathedral
Contains the complete concert and an additional documentary disc
Mediocre, the book was much better.
quote:Originally posted by Haim Ronen:
I quite liked that one, but I enjoyed "No Direction Home" much more.
This is very funny as well as very well acted and thoroughly entertaining.I meant to spread it out over a week or so (10 hrs) but killed it off in two nights, then bought series two the following day. Watching that tonight. Fabulous. 
I suppose all have watched these two that want too. But if not then they are cheerfully recommended.
Just finished the second and I'm distraught there can be no more.
Just finished the second and I'm distraught there can be no more.
This one has been sat on the shelf for years, and I've finally got round to watching it. Rather dated now, but some good tunes from back in the day.
"Five best friends, 48 hours and a bucketload of ecstasy pills make for an enjoyably lightweight slice of pop-cultural ephemera from debut director Justin Kerrigan. Cardiff is the city, and hardcore partying, clubbing and pubbing is on the menu as Jip (John Simm) and his renegade band of McJobbers clock off and head out for a weekend of debauchery. Among Jip's hedonistic posse are the cheeky cockney drug-dealer Moff (Danny Dyer), the terminally jealous boyfriend Koop (Shaun Parkes) and the bad-boy magnet Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington).
And that's pretty much it. Our heroes meet in a pub, get drunk, take drugs, go to a club, then to a party, then home and then meet up in another pub, just in time for the closing credits. Along the way there's a shamefully lethargic attempt to establish character back-story: Jip is temporarily sexually impotent because his mother's a prostitute; Koop's father is institutionalised; Lulu has nasty boyfriends; and Moff has conservative parents. But generally Human Traffic is happier at the heart of the party, celebrating the intoxication of club culture--which it does in style. Kerrigan pulls out all the formal stops with an energetic melange of jump cuts, slo-mo, and speeded-up "smudge" motion camerawork. There's also direct addresses to camera, fantasy sequences and some self-conscious cameos from DJ Carl Cox and former-drug dealer Howard Marks, author of Mr Nice. Wall-to-wall music from the likes of Fatboy Slim, William Orbit and even Primal Scream help paste over the occasional cracks in the veneer, which include some particularly duff lines ("We're gonna get more spaced than Neil Armstrong ever did!") and a drawn analysis of drug references in Star Wars, a nod to the films of Kevin Smith, such as Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. And if the whole project already feels dated and empty, well that's because it perfectly captures an essentially 1990s moment, and one gloriously empty weekend."
"Five best friends, 48 hours and a bucketload of ecstasy pills make for an enjoyably lightweight slice of pop-cultural ephemera from debut director Justin Kerrigan. Cardiff is the city, and hardcore partying, clubbing and pubbing is on the menu as Jip (John Simm) and his renegade band of McJobbers clock off and head out for a weekend of debauchery. Among Jip's hedonistic posse are the cheeky cockney drug-dealer Moff (Danny Dyer), the terminally jealous boyfriend Koop (Shaun Parkes) and the bad-boy magnet Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington).
And that's pretty much it. Our heroes meet in a pub, get drunk, take drugs, go to a club, then to a party, then home and then meet up in another pub, just in time for the closing credits. Along the way there's a shamefully lethargic attempt to establish character back-story: Jip is temporarily sexually impotent because his mother's a prostitute; Koop's father is institutionalised; Lulu has nasty boyfriends; and Moff has conservative parents. But generally Human Traffic is happier at the heart of the party, celebrating the intoxication of club culture--which it does in style. Kerrigan pulls out all the formal stops with an energetic melange of jump cuts, slo-mo, and speeded-up "smudge" motion camerawork. There's also direct addresses to camera, fantasy sequences and some self-conscious cameos from DJ Carl Cox and former-drug dealer Howard Marks, author of Mr Nice. Wall-to-wall music from the likes of Fatboy Slim, William Orbit and even Primal Scream help paste over the occasional cracks in the veneer, which include some particularly duff lines ("We're gonna get more spaced than Neil Armstrong ever did!") and a drawn analysis of drug references in Star Wars, a nod to the films of Kevin Smith, such as Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. And if the whole project already feels dated and empty, well that's because it perfectly captures an essentially 1990s moment, and one gloriously empty weekend."
