A Man On The Inside opens with a scene set in the ’70s, brilliantly de-aging Ted Danson as retired college professor Charles Nieuwendyk – just as he’s about to marry his sweetheart, since while he …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CRUEL INTENTIONS (2024)!
Cruel Intentions (2024) is the 8-part TV version of the 1999 movie, itself, which was based on 1989’s Dangerous Liaisons, as well as the 1782 novel from Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. As …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of AFTER THE PARTY!
After The Party is another drama which has first aired in another country, namely New Zealand for this one, and the same also happened for ITV’s recent Until I Kill You. Here, Penny (Robyn Malcolm), …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE LISTENERS on BBC1!
The Listeners centres around secondary school teacher Claire (Rebecca Hall – Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire), who’s hearing a mysterious hum, similar to those in Omagh and County Tyrone have done, lately. And it’s …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LANDMAN!
Landman opens in a way I wasn’t expecting, as Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton – Bad Santa 2) is tied and bound to a chair – obviously aginst his will, as he owns the rights …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DUNE PROPHECY!
Dune Prophecy is a prequel to both Dune Part One and Dune Part Two – well, the story to be told would last rather longer than a single movie, set over 100 centuries beforehand, and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CROSS on PRIME VIDEO!
Cross… Alex Cross… yet, it can’t be called the latter as that was the name of the 2012 Tyler Perry movie, which no-one went to see. Then again, there’s nothing worth watching in any of …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of GENERATION Z!
Generation Z opens with an army truck driving down a tight country lane before it flips over after a tyre blows, leading to its cannister splitting open, causing a spillage that’s having an unwanted effect, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of UNTIL I KILL YOU on ITV!
Until I Kill You is a four-part thriller set in 1991, based on a true story, in which agency nurse Delia Balmer (Anna Maxwell Martin – Ludwig) is rather ostracised at work, as she doesn’t …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (2024)
The Day Of The Jackal (2024) is a slightly more modern take on the Frederick Forsyth novel, although while this TV series version often does have a stylish look to it as if it was …
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