Australian (ASX) Stock Market Forum

TV/Films - What ASF members are watching

Jump to new
I have recently enjoyed History Channel's reality series Alone, particularly seasons 1, 3 and 5. They usually have the contestants starting late autumn and going into winter, it is brutal stuff. Talk about psychology being important!

"Alone" follows 10 survivalists on a mission to do what they do best: stay alive while in an isolated location, they are on their own -- separated from one another with no camera crews in sight. They have just limited gear, cameras to document the experience and, perhaps most importantly, their wilderness experience to make it in the harsh, unforgiving terrain. They must forage for food and water, build shelters and avoid predators while dealing with feelings of isolation and psychological distress to survive as long as possible, hoping to last the longest to take home the $500,000 that is awarded to the winner.
 
Watched "The Last Chance Hotel" tonight on ABC. It is the story of the Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda which was closed down a couple of years ago to be turned into 6 swish apartments. Previously it had been a rooming house for the down and outs.
The effect the owners had on the people they cared for in the Gatwick is ..... priceless.

Gatwick: The Last Chance Hotel
Intimate true stories from St Kilda's Gatwick Private Hotel. Meet the incredible characters including sisters Rose and Yvette who dedicated their lives to caring for the forgotten.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/gatwick-the-last-chance-hotel/video/ZW1799A001S00
 
Thanks Basilio, i disagree on your newspaper choice..a fan of the guardian, i am not but that movie and well well before the western.voice film are very good indeed
 
New movie coming out about Hedy Lamarr. Apart from being a famous movie star she was also an inventor whose ideas made a big impact on the US defence forces in WW2.

This is an interview with the director of "Bombshell". Also overviews some of the major inventions developed by Hedy Lamarr
 
Have been watching an old series called Wall Street Warriors on YouTube. It had three seasons the last season (3) can only be seen on Youtube.

wall-street-warriors.jpg
 
bellenuit said:
Season one seems to be there. I've just started watching it.
Click to expand...
belleniut, hope you enjoy it, I phrased that rather badly, all three seasons are on YouTube but the only place you can see season three is on YouTube. They never released season three on TV as it was right in the middle of the collapse in 2007/2008 and it became a bit tense for the protagonists.
I thought season three was the best of the lot.
 
...and another show I thoroughly enjoyed was a three part reality show from the UK called "Million Dollar Traders" also filmed during the 2009 crash. This is also available on YouTube.

Million_Dollar_Traders.jpg
 
Just came across a series on the Kennedy family on SBS. I missed episodes 1-3 but there is episode 4 and 5 still up.

Still so raw and powerful after all these years. It was disturbing to see how reckless and exposed Jack Kennedy was in his personal life. The assassinations of Jack Kennedy and the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in quick succession are reminders of the fragility of life/power in the US.

Really worth watching to get a picture of the US in the 60's.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1451713091659/the-kennedys-family-secrets
 
Saw an excellent movie/biography of Astrid Lindgren on SBS last night. Astrid wrote Pippi Longstocking and numerous other childrens books. Became a much respected spokesperson in Sweden .

When Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren was very young, something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love. This is the story of when a young Astrid, despite the expectations of her time and religious upbringing, decided to break free from society´s norms and follow her heart.

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1472993347934/becoming-astrid
 
I have just finished watching Series 3 of the Dutch series "Overspel" (The Adulterer) on Foxtel on demand. All 3 series were excellent and I would highly recommend.
 
Another thought provoking movie on SBS.
The Other Son
As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, a blood test proves Joseph is not his parents' biological son. An investigation reveals he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank, both having been born in Haifa during a missile attack in the Gulf War. The resulting confusion and subsequent revelation 17 years later turns the lives of the two families upside-down.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/650187331793/the-other-son
 
Always great to learn about a major historical event that totally rocked the world for many years - but seems largely overlooked today.
This film was an absolute pearler. Also historically very accurate.

A United Kingdom


  • Synopsis
He was an Oxford-educated African king, while she was a white Englishwoman working as a clerk at Lloyd’s of London. Now their 1948 marriage, which caused scandal in Apartheid-stricken South Africa and the British protectorate of Bechuanaland (later Botswana), is the subject of a new period drama starring Britain’s David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. Oyelowo plays Seretse Khama, who in 1965 became independent Botswana’s first president. He was also kgosi (king) of the Bamangwato people, having been crowned at the age of four in 1925. Pike stars as Ruth Williams, who would go on to be the first lady of Botswana between 1966 and 1980.

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1446792771715/a-united-kingdom
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/a-united-kingdom/
 
Top