The Teacher Series 3 brings Victoria Hamilton (The Trick) to the fore, now we’re back in The Teacherverse, and there’s controversy abound… As Helen Simpson, she’s got a promotion at school to Head of Drama, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DON’T BE PREY!
Don’t Be Prey is one of those films where I didn’t want to get spoilers in advance, so with just a quick look at the trailer for this one, I figured from the title and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE BURBS on SKY ONE!
The Burbs makes the transition from movies to TV, and was a mediocre film at the best of times, but in 2026, no-one in Hollywood has original ideas any more. This time round, a 30-something …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BABIES on BBC1!
Babies just drops you in the middle of the ‘action’ as a young couple – Lisa (Siobhán Cullen – Bodkin) and Stephen (Paapa Essiedu – The Outrun) – go about their day: leave their flat, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of REMINDERS OF HIM!
Reminders Of Him does what it says on the tin, because it reminded me of last year’s weird thriller, Him, given that it also stars Tyriq Withers. And given that it centres around the protagonist, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN on NETFLIX!
Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen sees Rachel (Camila Morrone – The Night Manager Series 2) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) getting married, but things are clearly not going to go too well, otherwise the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of Jo Nesbø’s DETECTIVE HOLE on NETFLIX!
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! Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. …
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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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