Audition starts with the heart-wrending situation for Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) whose wife, Ryoko (Miyuki Matsuda), passes away. Seven years later, his son wants him to marry again. It’s not an easy task to meet …
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Audition starts with the heart-wrending situation for Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) whose wife, Ryoko (Miyuki Matsuda), passes away. Seven years later, his son wants him to marry again. It’s not an easy task to meet …
Continue readingChannel 5 HD is finally coming to Freeview’s set of HD channels and it’s about time, although it’s taken an awful lot of time to get to this point. The lack of such a channel …
Continue readingThe OSCARS 2016 took place last night and the winners are below, but first I have a few things to say… Great stuff for The Revenant for Mr Iñárritu and for Leo (aside from his …
Continue readingFebruary 29th: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Collection (DVD Box Set Collector’s Edition) All Roads Lead to Rome (DVD) Audition (Blu-ray Limited Edition Steelbook, Blu-ray) Back at the Barnyard: Collection (DVD) Benidorm Series 8 (DVD) Birds of …
Continue readingBrooklyn was one of those films where I saw the trailers and it just didn’t grab me. But then I saw all the BAFTA and Oscars interest; plus the fact that Saoirse Ronan is a …
Continue readingLukas Graham stays at No.1, in the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e March 3rd 2016, and I’ve heard this a zillion times in the gym. It sounds a lot like the opening to …
Continue readingAbsolutely Fabulous: The Movie answers the question – what do you do when you’ve completely run out of ideas with your sitcom? In the case of Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, it was usually to …
Continue readingThe Preppie Connection is based on the true story of prep school student Toby (Thomas Mann) who smuggled $300k of uncut cocaine into the US in 1984. A lower-class scholarship student, he uses his street …
Continue readingBastille Day is what Idris Elba does on his day off when he’s not DCI John Luther, but this is basically him being Luther but with a dodgy American accent. He’s joined by Game Of …
Continue readingBorn to Be Blue stars Ethan Hawke around jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, a man for whom I don’t really know enough of him and his life to know how much Hawke looks like him, but …
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