Trespasses tells the tale of an illicit love between schoolteacher Cushla Lavery (Lola Petticrew) and an older man, Michael Agnew (Tom Cullen). She’s Catholic, he’s Protestant, and it’s 1975, the time during the Northern Ireland …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PLURIBUS on APPLE TV!
Pluribus takes a while to get your head around its concept, but as we’re first introduced to its world, a mysterious virus is about to hit the Earth in just over 14 months’ time. Scientists …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ALL HER FAULT on SKY ATLANTIC!
All Her Fault opens with Marissa Irvine (Sarah Snook – Pieces of a Woman) coming to pick up her son, Milo, from a playdate, but there’s no Milo there. She also can’t get hold of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DEATH BY LIGHTNING on NETFLIX!
Death by Lightning focuses on the rise to power of the 20th American Present, James Garfield (portrayed by Michael Shannon – A Different Man), and his eventual assassin, Charles J. Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen – Deadpool …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CRUTCH on PARAMOUNT+!
“Crutch is filmed before a live studio audience” Oh dear, it’s still the ’90s. We recently also had that with Netflix’s Leanne. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOWN CEMETERY ROAD ON APPLE TV+!
Down Cemetery Road brings us Ruth Wilson (See How They Run), as Sarah Tucker, is having a dinner party, when a huge explosion happens in the middle of it. Did someone put too much chili …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of IT: WELCOME TO DERRY on SKY ATLANTIC / HBO!
IT: Welcome To Derry serves as prequel to IT Chapter One, and obviously, IT Chapter Two, and opens in December 1961, with Matty (Miles Ekhardt) exiting stage left from a cinema during a showing of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE FORSYTES on CHANNEL 5!
The Forsytes opens in London, 1877, when I was knee-height to a grasshopper… Oh, actually that was *19*77, but close enough. It’s the time before Kid’n’Play, when people held house parties with the guests being …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE RIDGE on BBC2!
The Ridge is a thriller with the initial mystery that when we see lots of unnecessary shakycam/zooming in-and-out as we’re introduced to anaesthetist Mia (Lauren Lyle – The Outrun) – the picture still unable to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE IRIS AFFAIR on SKY ATLANTIC!
The Iris Affair is one of those dramas that begins with something happening later in the story – here, as someone’s getting savagely beaten up – before going back to a previous point in time. …
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