The Quiet Hour is the fourth in a new series of Play For Today on Channel 5, and stress is in the air… Archie Panjabi (Doctor Who: The Reality War) plays Riya, a very stressed …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CRYSTAL LAKE on SKY ATLANTIC!
Crystal Lake is the prequel to Friday The 13th, and Pam Voorhees has (Linda Cardellini) got a bit of a problem, having ended up covered from head to toe in blood… and someone’s tooth. That …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PRESSURE!
Pressure is a World War II drama, opening in 1944, with what looks like the calamity of a beach massacre, but was actually Exercise Tiger – a rehearsal for D-Day which all went wrong, resulting …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of OTHER MOMMY! (+ POST-CREDIT SCENE BREAKDOWN)
Other Mommy… well, it’s ‘Mummy’ in the UK, but anyway… Still, you soon learn that amongst the small main cast, whenever you see Jessica Chastain (Mothers’ Instinct) and she’s looking like she’s high on illicit …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of TIME SERIES 3 on BBC1!
Time Series 3 sees the return of the Jimmy McGovern prison drama series, as does Siobhan Finneran (Unchosen) as chaplain Marie-Louise O’Dell, who’s arrived at a Youth Offenders’ institution, where she’s going to run shoulders …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE PARTY on ITV!
The Party only runs for five episodes, but from the off, you can feel it’s being incredibly dragged out. Firstly, it goes back to 1997, when the young Martin Gilmour (Jonathan Houlston) was accepted to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CLOSING TIME (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Closing Time is the third in a new series of Play For Today on Channel 5, and love may be in the air… It’s a simple tale of boy fancies girl, namely takeaway worker Mo …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (2026)!
Sense And Sensibility (2026)… # In El’s imagination, there is no complication, she dreams about Ed all the time, In her mind, a celebration, the sweetest of sensation, thinking he could be hers, In her …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ANIMALS on NETFLIX!
Animals… a rather odd title for a film about Ben Affleck‘s Mark Kimball, who’s finding it’s rather expensive to run for mayor in his city, but a situation develops where he’ll need even more, because …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MATCHBOX: THE MOVIE!
Matchbox: The Movie – A bizarre premise, but I felt if there’s anyone who can make it work, John Cena can… After an opening scene, set in 1997, during which Bill Camp pops up, because …
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