Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole… Harry Hole, although while in Norwegian, his surname is pronounced “Hoo-lay”, in the UK, it just sounds like a hole in the ground. Then again, the detective, played by Tobias Santelmann …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MIDWINTER BREAK!
Midwinter Break centres around a married couple – Stella (Lesley Manville – Cold Storage) and Gerry (Ciarán Hinds – Is This Thing On?) – who’ve run out of things to say to each other, but …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of POWER: THE DOWNFALL OF HUW EDWARDS on CHANNEL 5!
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards opens with Martin Clunes (Mother’s Pride) as the nonce-newsreader jogging, making me wonder: No way did Huw Edwards go jogging!
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SCARLET!
Scarlet proves that you can’t keep a good Bard down, since following Riz Ahmed’s Hamlet, the Oscar-winning Hamnet, and the zero-awards-winning Hamnet sketch in SNL UK, here’s another film that’s based on Hamlet. Given the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of HOW TO MAKE A KILLING!
How To Make A Killing opens with Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell – The Running Man) at the end of his situation, just four hours away from death row execution, telling his story about all this …
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New Blu-ray 4K and DVD releases March 23rd 2026
New Blu-ray 4K and DVD releases March 23rd 2026 are as follows: Anaconda (4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD) Cruel Tale Of Bushido (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition (Blu-ray) Dunkirk 4K Steelbook (4K Blu-ray) Evil Nun …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE UK (SNL UK) on SKY ONE!
Saturday Night Live UK sees the live stand-up show tried out in the UK, but with a British cast, and Tina Fey as guest host… all for better or worse? Let’s go through the output …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST PREVIEW of CELEBRITY SABOTAGE on ITV!
Celebrity Sabotage… yes, it’s time for another show with “Celebrity” in the title, but this one is a bit different. In this situation, the participants are actually taking part in a fake gameshow, and there’s …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SIRAT!
Sirat refers to The Sirat Bridge, which I learned is an Islamic eschatological concept, that a bridge that is thinner than hair, sharper than a sword, and stretches over Hell to Paradise on the Day …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT!
EPIC: Elvis Presley In Concert was billed as the ultimate way to see the King of Rock’n’Roll, following Baz Luhrmann‘s 2022 Elvis biopic with Austin Butler. It wasn’t.
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