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spaminator

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Anyone here watches Duck Dynasty?

I seem to have taken a picture of one of the fellers at the festival in Tottenham this summer,
They must be into bluegrass too :lol:

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my eldest sister is a big fan.

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Blackleaf

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I enjoyed watching British comedy movie Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) the other night.



From Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire, inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - with its all-star British cast - is about a visionary Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) who believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly Yemeni desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his financial advisor Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) to turn the dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert Doctor Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor).

Chetwode-Talbot emails Dr Jones about the plan, who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable - he points out that salmon prefer cooler climes like Northern Europe and, of course, plenty of water, whereas the Yemen is both scorching hot and a desert. But the two meet in Chetwode-Talbot's office and Dr Jones gives a presentation on what is needed for the project—including transporting by air thousands of salmon from British rivers to the Yemen at a cost of £50 million.

Chetwode-Talbot and a skeptical Dr Jones get invited to the sheikh's mansion in the Scottish Highlands to meet the sheikh and discuss their plans further. The sheikh is excited to meet Dr Jones, the inventor of the "Woolly Jones", a famous fishing fly. They even go fishing together in a stream. While the sheikh acknowledges that the project may sound crazy, he still believes that fishing is a noble pursuit that promotes harmony. Later, when Jones claims to be a man of no faith, the sheikh points out that fishing requires immense faith in an outcome that is highly improbable. Eventually Dr Jones comes round to the idea and decides to embark on the ambitious project of introducing thousands of British salmon to the Yemen.

Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary, Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas), frustrated by news accounts of an accidental mosque bombing in Afghanistan, instructs her team to find a positive story to help improve relations between Britain and the Islamic world. After they discover the project to introduce British salmon to the Yemen she latches onto it as a 'good will' story.

Now, this unlikely team - Chetwode-Talbot, Doctor Jones and the sheikh - will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible - by introducing salmon to the Yemen.

The movie is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by British writer Paul Torday. The inspiration for the novel stemmed from Torday's interest in both fly fishing and the Middle East. From these two strands, he weaves a political satire that centres around the world of political spin management.


Salmon Fishing In The Yemen - Trailer 2012 - YouTube







 
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Based on Henry James The Aspern Papers



Though not well received in its time [1947] and lost a lot of money, modern day critics acknowledge that it was indeed a good movie with wonderful setting, costuming, and superb acting.
 
Blackleaf

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Two nights ago I watched British steampunk psychological horror Outpost 11 (2012). The movie is strange but very good.




From a simple starting point, Outpost 11 slowly descends into the weird and then the weirder. Bringing in body horror, giant spiders, strange visions, paranoia, madness, and constant hints and clues that all is not what it seems. You will be left guessing until the end.

Outpost 11 is set in an alternate reality where Victorian steam power still rules the world. It is 1955 and Britain and Prussia have been at war with each other for decades in the Second Hundred Year War and three British soldiers - Albert, Mason and Graham - are manning a remote and lonely listening post in the Arctic Circle, listening to Prussian messages. One day the warning light goes off unexpectedly and their world is plunged into chaos, as they become prey to an unknown, alien enemy.

The film opens with black and white grainy footage of a walrus-moustached British Colonel, announcing that this takes place in the 50s during ‘the Second Hundred Year War against the Prussian War Machine’. Outpost 11 is a listening post in the Arctic Circle (with the moutains of Scotland doubling as the Arctic), trying to pick up enemy transmissions. In lieu of a boiler room, it’s powered by the Omega Machine, a device whose exact nature remains unexplained but appears to be semi-organic in nature. Its three-man detail consists of tough but easy-going officer Mason (Healy), green recruit Albert (Mayes-Cooper) and burned-out corporal Graham (Clarke.)

Graham is, according to Mason, ‘a soldier of the old war,’ pressed into the military in boyhood and a survivor of countless horrors. When he’s not sniffing something from a tin (snuff, perhaps, or cocaine) he’s usually masturbating surreptitiously, but all that holds him together is devotion to duty and to God, King and Country. Albert is constantly on the receiving end of his anger for failing to carry out his duties to Graham’s satisfaction, with Mason, who shows a half-fatherly, half-homoerotic affection towards the young recruit, working to keep the peace between them.

A red warning light begins to flash, signalling a possible attack, and a coded message arrives, reading: “God has forsaken us. Abandon all hope.” Graham develops a pustulent spot on his hand, which opens to reveal an eyeball, which evolves in turn into a grotesque, spider-like creature. As other bizarre and unreal phenomena assail the three men and their grip on reality, Graham grows increasingly unhinged and dangerous.

There’s actually a lot to like here. Anthony Woodley has put together a fascinating, off-beat film, with a weird, atmospheric score by Charlie Khan. The world of the film is an odd mish-mash of technologies – First World War era rifles, uniforms and telephones rub shoulders with video recorders, laser-pistols and the almost Lovecraftian Omega Machine – and despite the film’s micro-budget, he conjures up some unsettling visuals and potent atmospherics.

There are strong performances all round from the three leads, but it’s Billy Clarke’s performance as Graham that makes the film. Graham is alternately comical, pathetic, frightening and deeply pitiable, a man who’s never known anything but war, who’s lost everything, suffered terribly and yet clings to an ever-more fanatical patriotism and devotion to duty against the creeping dread that his whole life has been thrown away for nothing. Even though he’s half-mad already, his psychological disintegration is at the heart of the film, and possibly its most compelling aspect.

Outpost 11 2nd Trailer - YouTube

















Film Review: Outpost 11 » This Is Horror
 
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I just watched "Australia" the movie with Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, and Brenden Walters who stole the movie playing Nullah, the little Aboriginal boy. Excellent movie.
 
Blackleaf

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I've just watched the dark, gloomy Irish/British movie Citadel.

The movie is the latest in a string of movies which are part of a new, British-invented genre of movie - hoodie horror. Dark, gloomy, gritty horror films inspired by the fear of hoodie-clad hooligans which blight some British neighbourhoods.

Citadel, filmed in Glasgow, sees Tommy and his pregnant wife Joanne living in a dilapidated apartment block.

One day, when Tommy is in an elevator within the apartment block, the pregnant Joanne is threatened by a group of teenagers in the corridor outside, all wearing hoodies. Tommy watches helplessly as the gang attacks his wife, Tommy desperately trying to exit the elevator as it starts its journey downwards.

He runs back up the stairs and finds her beaten, with a syringe in her stomach. In the hospital, Joanne survives and gives birth to Elsa, a healthy girl. However, Joanne remains in a coma for nine months, eventually being taken off life support. Grief-stricken, Tommy is consoled by a friendly nurse from Joanne's hospice, Marie, who attempts to help him with his agoraphobia, the result of his traumatic experience.

It's not long before the hoodies return to menace Tommy and his baby daughter. He eventually teams up with a foul-mouthed renegade priest, who conducted Joanne's funeral, to save his daughter from the clutches of the gang of feral, twisted children.

And yet there's something odd and not quite human about these hooligans. Tommy soon realises that this gang of hoodies may not be of this world.....

A genuinely unnerving and creepy movie at times.

Citadel Trailer (2012) - YouTube

















 
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I'm hooked on the award-winning British gameshow The Chase, shown every weekday evening on ITV1.




Bradley Walsh with quiz geniuses the Chasers. Just don't get caught by them, or you are out of the game

The Chase, hosted by actor, entertainer and former professional footballer Bradley Walsh, sees a team of four contestants play against an opponent who plays for the bank, known as "The Chaser". he Chasers - Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty, and Paul Sinha - are, like the Eggheads on BBC gameshow Eggheads, brainy quiz geniuses who are tough to beat. These guys know their stuff, and sometimes they go through an entire episode without getting any quesion wrong. Labbett and Wallace have both been Chasers since series 1, while Hegerty joined in series 2 and Sinha joined in series 4.

A team of four contestants attempt to amass as much money as possible for a team kitty by each taking it in turns answering quick-fire questions in a 60-second round. Each correct answer earns the contestant £1,000. The money earned will go towards the team kitty, but there is one person standing in their way: a quiz genius known as The Chaser. The identity of which Chaser is taking part in the game is not known until after the first contestant completes their quick-fire round of answering questions.

The Chaser's job is to chase each contestant down an electronic ladder and make sure the contestants are not able to put the money into the kitty which the team must collectively play for in "The Final Chase".

In each round of the main game, one player in turn breaks away from the team to play a 60-second speed round and build up a pot of cash—£1,000 for each correct answer. The amount they earn is placed on an electronic ladder, with “home” at the bottom and the Chaser at the top.

To add the pot to the team bank, the player must work their way down the ladder by answering multiple-choice questions—each correct answer gets them one step closer to home. Yet the Chaser is close behind, answering the same questions at the same time and also advancing one step forward for each correct answer. A wrong answer by either of them results in them staying put. If the Chaser catches the contestant before the contestants gets home (the bottom of the ladder), the money is gone and the player is eliminated from the game for good.

The player gets a three-step head start, but there’s a twist. The contestant may remain at this step and play for the money in their bank that they have earned, but if they so wish, the contestant may also be placed one step lower down the board (one step closer to home) for a smaller award, or one step further up the board (one step closer to the Chaser) for a greater award, with each award's value being set by The Chaser. The lower award can occasionally be a negative amount of money (but this doesn't stop the cowardly players going for it).



The crowning glory of The Chase is its endgame, the Final Chase. The contestants who survived the main game play as a team in an extremely fast-paced two-minute speed round; each correct answer adds another step to their path. Once they’re done, the Chaser gets two minutes to catch the contestants. So if the contestants get 20 questions right in the two minutes, they advance twenty steps. The Chaser then has two minutes to advance the 20 steps to catch them. If they’re caught, the team leaves with nothing. If the Chaser falls short, the contestants win their bank at long last, an equal share of the money.

The on-air talent and direction on this show are fantastic. In a format that vacillates between frenzy and calm dozens of times in the course of an hour, host Bradley Walsh has a preternatural sense for how to set the tone. He seems to shift effortlessly from the warm, winking humour of the personal Chases to the staccato hypertension of the rapid-fire Q&A sections.

The Chase is currently one of the most-watched late aftermoon shows on British TV, and is currently vying with rival BBC gameshow Pointless for ratings.

So popular is it that Britain has now exported the format to Croatia, Serbia, Russia, Germany and the USA.

Here's a celebrity version of The Chase:

Celebrity The Chase - Series 1 - Episode 2 - YouTube
 
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