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by sandman67
Fri Nov 28, 2014 8:08 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

ah....its awards judging season so the piratical oceans shall be fruitful FURY Bloody, gritty, visceral and a wee bit preachy tale of a tank destroyer crew in the closing months of WW2, as the American forces advanced into "Fortress Germany" to face the Reich's desperate last stand. Outgun...
by sandman67
Fri Nov 28, 2014 7:53 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

pharvey The simple answer is you cant. Subs files work using a type of add on or plug in that links to your media player on your computer - while the media player plays the vid/audio the plug in synchs the text track and superimposes it onto the media player screen. A lot of players have this integr...
by sandman67
Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:08 am
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

Uncle Sandy Santa is back with a heaving sack (oo er missus) of treats for my HHAD chums and chumettes, so lets dive on in. So...you want a decent horror flick. Well...try this one on THE BABADOOK Small budget indie Aussie flick about a single mother whose hyperactive and maladjusted kid is driving ...
by sandman67
Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:59 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

A couple of pot boilers from the bag o fun SHADOW PUPPETS Sort of a sci-fi horror thriller that looks to be one of those straight to DVD specials you get on the Sci-Fy Channel, despite starring Jolene Blaylock. Its a pretty simple set up - nine people wake up in an abandoned research facility with n...
by sandman67
Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:04 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: History Challenge & Journal
Replies: 5134
Views: 96790

Re: History Challenge

Ok, I thought Stevie G would swoop in with the answer. All three have been cited as the cause of someone laughing themselves to death The Goodies episode Kung-Fu Kapers contained the scene above, where Bill Oddie, master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art Ecky-Thump, takes on all challengers. Th...
by sandman67
Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:00 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: History Challenge & Journal
Replies: 5134
Views: 96790

Re: History Challenge

Ok, Stevie G is on the right track

here is your hint

Its something to do with that very specific picture/scene of Michael Palin and Kevin Kline, and this scene from the Goodies:



:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
by sandman67
Fri Oct 03, 2014 6:21 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: TV series worth watching/downloading
Replies: 2233
Views: 174810

Re: TV series worth downloading

Matlot depends what software is on your phone. As long as it has Adobe Flash on it (it should have), any streaming source works. If it can run YouTube, it can run other streaming sources. Good sites for TV (and films) http://www.merdb.cn/index.php - default is movie page, TV page is linked at the to...
by sandman67
Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:57 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: History Challenge & Journal
Replies: 5134
Views: 96790

Re: History Challenge

Well not too bad so far between you all

The Goodies
Michael Palin and Kevin Kline in "Fish Called Wanda"
King Charles II of England

Now....what is the history connection between all three?

:cheers: :idea: :cheers:
by sandman67
Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:40 am
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: History Challenge & Journal
Replies: 5134
Views: 96790

Re: History Challenge

A quick brain tickler
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Who are these three sets of people, and what is the connection?

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
by sandman67
Sun Sep 07, 2014 3:58 am
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: Caption Competition
Replies: 16668
Views: 422947

Re: Caption Competition

Last week's Angling Times Spot The Fish contest has, sadly, been cancelled after not one single member of our male readership managed to Spot The Fish. :cheers:
by sandman67
Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:05 am
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

CASTLES IN THE SKY This is more of a BBC feature length one shot drama than a flick, but as its a hour and a half long Id say it belongs here. Eddie Izzard portrays Sir Robert Watson Watt, inventor of the early warning system that would become known as RADAR. Given a tiny budget and little or no su...
by sandman67
Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:12 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

GOD'S POCKET One of the last films Phillip Seymour Hoffman made before checking out, and like The Master its a pretty good testament to his talents. In this Coen Brothers style Fargoesque comedy of errors he plays a low level crim who, along with his equally shady mate played wonderfully by John Tu...
by sandman67
Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:37 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: History Challenge & Journal
Replies: 5134
Views: 96790

Re: History Challenge

and the big chocolate cake of love goes to Richard! That map shows the countries in the world that, at some point in history, Britain has invaded. The 22 (21 on the map and an island chain in the mid Pacific we missed) countries in white have never had a taste of British Steel. All the rest have. Th...
by sandman67
Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:17 am
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: History Challenge & Journal
Replies: 5134
Views: 96790

Re: History Challenge

DM The term empire is derived from the Latin imperium (power, authority). Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled by a central authority either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy. So I guess that the large areas o...
by sandman67
Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:31 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: The Recommended Movies Thread
Replies: 2697
Views: 127380

Re: Movies on DVD

NIGHT MOVES Three deluded environmentalists decide to take direct action and plot to blow up a hydo-electric dam that blocks the route of a salmon migration. As they build the bombs, lay them and escape their little clique slowly falls apart, and in the aftermath of the event loyalties are tested t...