“Crutch is filmed before a live studio audience” Oh dear, it’s still the ’90s. We recently also had that with Netflix’s Leanne. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOWN CEMETERY ROAD ON APPLE TV+!
Down Cemetery Road brings us Ruth Wilson (See How They Run), as Sarah Tucker, is having a dinner party, when a huge explosion happens in the middle of it. Did someone put too much chili …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of IT: WELCOME TO DERRY on SKY ATLANTIC / HBO!
IT: Welcome To Derry serves as prequel to IT Chapter One, and obviously, IT Chapter Two, and opens in December 1961, with Matty (Miles Ekhardt) exiting stage left from a cinema during a showing of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE FORSYTES on CHANNEL 5!
The Forsytes opens in London, 1877, when I was knee-height to a grasshopper… Oh, actually that was *19*77, but close enough. It’s the time before Kid’n’Play, when people held house parties with the guests being …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE RIDGE on BBC2!
The Ridge is a thriller with the initial mystery that when we see lots of unnecessary shakycam/zooming in-and-out as we’re introduced to anaesthetist Mia (Lauren Lyle – The Outrun) – the picture still unable to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE IRIS AFFAIR on SKY ATLANTIC!
The Iris Affair is one of those dramas that begins with something happening later in the story – here, as someone’s getting savagely beaten up – before going back to a previous point in time. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SPLINTER CELL DEATHWATCH on NETFLIX!
Splinter Cell Deathwatch is a spin-off from the everlong Splinter Cell videogame series, based upon the Tom Clancy novels, and it makes me realise that we haven’t had one in a while. In fact, 2013 …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RIOT WOMEN on BBC1!
Riot Women is the BBC’s answer to We Are Lady Parts, this time with women of the next generation up, including Beth (Joanna Scanlan – Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy) at a very low …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BOOTS on NETFLIX!
Boots initially sounds like it’s pitched as Full Metal Jacket meets Queer As Folk. Set in 1990, young private Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer – Nerve) and some others are gay, but homosexuality was not allowed …
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Worlds Apart – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Travel gameshow
Worlds Apart is a new Channel 4 gameshow that takes place in Japan, a place I want to visit, having seen a zillion videos about just how stunning and well-behaved it is, especially in comparison …
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