Marty Supreme… when a film like this runs for two-and-a-half hours and basically tells someone’s rags-to-riches-type story, it’s also known as (a) a mini-series, and (b) when’s the intermission, so I can go and use …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? on BBC1!
Can You Keep A Secret? Can I? Well, you might want to with this new series that attempts to put a light spin on a ‘Canoe Man‘-type story, and fails miserably. Debbie Fendon’s (Dawn French …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ANACONDA (2025)!
Anaconda centres around a group of friends remaking the same-titled 1997 action movie, which I only got round to seeing in the last year or so for the first time, when it was on late …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MILLIONAIRE HOT SEAT on ITV!
Millionaire Hot Seat finally brings the format to a better length, since the 60-minute shows have been way too long for some time, and the original format’s well has run dry. However, this new format …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SENTIMENTAL VALUE!
Sentimental Value sees Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård – Dune Part Two) as a film director, who’s recently made a documentary, but now wants to direct a film, and wants daughter Nora (Renate Reinsve – A …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE FLOOR on ITV!
The Floor features tons of contestants on a huge floor… 81 at a rough count – as it looks like a 9×9 grid. The first contestant, apparently picked at random, is Shivanni, aged 27. She’s …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of WAITING FOR THE OUT on BBC1!
Waiting For The Out presents with a young man, Dan Stewer (Josh Finan – The Responder), teaching a philosophy class in a prison full of men who’ve been locked away for a fair amount of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RED EYE SERIES 2: CRIMSON ICARUS on ITV!
Red Eye Series 2: Crimson Icarus is here, and I can’t believe it’s been almost two years since the first series came round. How have we gone this long without more Jing Lusi on our …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE NIGHT MANAGER SERIES 2 on BBC1!
The Night Manager Series 2 comes hot on the heels of Series 1 from… erm… 2016. I remember some parts of it, but not all of it, and i didn’t get time to watch it …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RUN AWAY on NETFLIX!
Run Away is Netflix’s annual installment from Harlan Coben, which don’t always hit the mark, but when they’re good, they’re very entertaining. This time round, James Nesbitt (Suspect) works in finance as Simon Greene, a …
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