Disenchantment is the latest creation from The Simpsons and Futurama head honcho Matt Groening. Set in Medieval times, in a fantasy kingdom called Dreamland, it centres around Tiabeanie – aka Bean (Abbi Jacobson), a hard-drinking …
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Disenchantment is the latest creation from The Simpsons and Futurama head honcho Matt Groening. Set in Medieval times, in a fantasy kingdom called Dreamland, it centres around Tiabeanie – aka Bean (Abbi Jacobson), a hard-drinking …
Continue readingBagdad Café is a slice-of-life drama that’s very weird. Early on, Jasmin Münchgstettner (Marianne Sägebrecht, below) seemingly splits from her husband after an argument, and with nothing better to do, she beds down at motel …
Continue readingThe Mooseman is the person you’re playing in this game, and it’s a game that I didn’t really understand – in fact, it’d take longer to figure that out and write about it, but I’ll …
Continue readingHang Ups is, effectively, another of those ‘one room’ comedies, this one the house of Richard Pitt (Stephen Mangan), a therapist whose business collapsed, so today is Day One of working from home (so, a …
Continue readingTerminal is a film I never *got* from the trailer, but it looked great and had a decent cast including Margot Robbie, so it was one I certainly wanted to give a whirl. Firstly, if …
Continue readingStudio 54 was the New York club that everyone wanted to go to, from 1977 until its closure in February 1980. It did reopen in later years, for various periods of time, but never as …
Continue readingBirdman of Alcatraz is another of those classics from yesteryear which I never got round to watching, so now I’m glad it’s out on Blu-ray so I can see it in the best shape possible. …
Continue readingWonderstruck is a difficult film to describe because there’s not an awful lot lappening. Ben (Oakes Fegley, above middle) is a child in 1977 whose mother has passed away, and he’s in New York to …
Continue readingAnt-Man and the Wasp is released tomorrow in UK cinemas and before I discuss it, I will say that I was NOT a fan of the first one, but since I go into each film …
Continue readingAge Before Beauty proves that yet again, if it’s Tuesday night on BBC1 at 9pm, it’s “TV for women” hour… and this new drama has lots of them working in a beauty parlour. As the …
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