Allelujah! is a film based on a 2018 Alan Bennett (Talking Heads) play, where Sister Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders – The Stranger) steers the Bethlehem Hospital with a firm hand on the tiller, brilliantly mixing in …
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Allelujah! is a film based on a 2018 Alan Bennett (Talking Heads) play, where Sister Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders – The Stranger) steers the Bethlehem Hospital with a firm hand on the tiller, brilliantly mixing in …
Continue readingThe Night Agent is another political drama series based upon a novel, and this time round, after giving up his seat on the subway, FBI bloke Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso – Hillbilly Elegy) spots some …
Continue readingRise And Fall is a new Channel 4 gameshow, presented by Radio 1’s Greg James, which has a premise which sounds a bit like the recent The Traitors, on BBC1. Once again, a bunch of …
Continue readingLuther: The Fallen Sun shows that the long-running detective drama finally comes to the big screen… albeit on the small screen. It did get OTT later in the series, though, and rather lacking in the …
Continue readingChallenge Anneka is back, and at first, I thought: it has the same music, initially, but then tries to change it, and surely they should’ve stuck to the original? Or was it something amiss with …
Continue readingChampions centres around a womanising idiot Marcus Marokovich (Woody Harrelson – Kate), although since Mr Harrelson is almost 62, perhaps he’s a bit old for such roles? Either way, as is typical of lazy Hollywood, …
Continue readingSwarm begins with the text: “This is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to real people and events is intentional.” I figured this was for comedic value – given that it is co-created by …
Continue readingClass Of 07 is about a high school reunion, as you’d expect, but everyone has their different backgrounds as to what they’ve been up to, and for Zoe (Emily Browning), she inadvertently showed herself up …
Continue reading65 isn’t about the retirement age for pensioners, but the approximate number of mega-annums since the dinosaurs first ruled the Earth, before an asteroid allegedly struck the planet and wiped them out, but those records …
Continue readingwatchAUT Austrian Film Festival 2023 Preview by Helen M Jerome: This year marks my first time at the Austrian Film Festival – aka watchAUT – but judging by what’s lined up, it doesn’t sound like …
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