The Swedish version of "Let The Right One In." Very good, very different vampire tale. 

Just like some of the early posts, finaly saw Hanna, Trollhunter and others on Film4 recently. 

Enjoyed the Ip man films they showed few weeks ago. And finaly got through all 5 seasons of Breaking Bad in less than a month :)

Looking forward to Game of Thones new season, Defiance, and new Godzilla movie

Saw the finale of HBO's True Detective. I was very satisfirped with the ending, and the show, writing, acting, everything is as good as I've seen on a series. Really like an eight hour movie. 

I agree! Don't forget the soundtrack. But the acting stands out, especially McConaughey. Maybe it's because I just finished it, but this is the best TV-show I watched so far, ever!

You're right to mention that, the use of music was outstanding in True Detective. And the use of not completely music, ominous tones to set a mood. But the music was always perfectly chosen and helped reinforce the mood of every scene.

One thing too, the opening credits were amazing, which prompted my wife and I to talk about credits in general. Especially on shows on the pay movie channels like HBO and Showtime and such the credits are just amazing works of art in and of themselves, and have been since things like Rome and Carnivale. Some seriously good work shows up there.

I've been watching the pirate show Black Sails. It's OK, not great, but not bad. They did have a great scene recently, one guy was talking to the half wit cook...he starts going on about how he and everyone thinks this guy is a half wit, but he had a change of mind, now he thinks the guy's brilliant. He pretends to be a half wit, which lets him sail with the crew but not get tasked with the dangerous fighting, so he thinks he's a genius. He looks at the guy expecting some response, and the half wit just stares at him, rips a long fart, and goes back to peeling potatoes. 😁

Just wanted to add, while the two main actors, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey were both amazingly good and well cast for this, the supporting actors were really good as well. The actor who played the biker dude was really believable, as were the other supporting actors. All in all well done.

Meanwhile Vikings has returned to the History Channel here. The actor who plays Ragnar always manages to look more than a little bit crazy, like when he shows up to interrogate two captured Britons holding one of their comrades head under his arm. The scene of him at a feast with his wife at one side and the woman carrying his child on the other was priceless. He squirmed a lot and looked like he sure wanted to be somewhere else! 😁

Good thing that actors like McConnaughey and Harrelson, and also Kevin Spacy in House of Cards, who I assume are very expensive, to see them act in TV-shows. 🤒

The Killing Room, pretty intense psychological drama that begins with four people being brought in to be paid research subjects. The tests are not what they expected. Really a mind screw. 

Last night watched the final two episodes of Salamander, a Belgian secret society/ bank robbery detective drama.

Not as compelling as some of the Scandinavian dramas, but good viewing, even with the sub-titles.

What is interesting with the sub-titling of so many of these imported programmes is that whoever has done the translation into English seems, generally, not to be a native english speaker. So you frequently get a perfectly understandable Danish/ Swedish/ Flemish/ Dutch word that is virtually the same in English translated imto something entirely different (and maybe school-taught english from 50 years ago, when the text books were from an even earlier decade.)  Even 'borrowed english' phrases get translated back as something different! They really should employ a native english speaker to do a final check of the sub-titling. 

Graham