Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft makes me ask if this series can get our heroine right, where pretty much every film has got it wrong? Well, it has a rather wordy title, but …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CITADEL: DIANA on Amazon Prime Video!
Citadel: Diana is the spin-off from last year’s over-expensive and under-delivering Citadel, opening with a scene where our heroine, played by Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing), kills someone off-camera and fakes being shot at, by …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CURFEW on Paramount+ !
Curfew takes place in an alternate, dystopian world where all men are under curfew from 7pm to 7am daily, so women can trip the light fandango together, lording it up in front of us while …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SWEETPEA on Sky Atlantic!
Sweetpea centres around Rhiannon Lewis (Ella Purnell – Fallout), who tells us in the opening narration how she wants to kill manspreaders, Donna in the mini-market who is never ‘happy to help’, Norman at work …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE HARDACRES on Channel 5!
“We’re The Hardacres, love, and we haven’t had any dinner!” is what I was expecting Mary Hardacre (Claire Cooper) to say, as she set out her declaration at the end of this opening episode… Channel …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of PHILLIP SCHOFIELD: CAST AWAY on Channel 5!
Phillip Schofield is a MASSIVE LIAR! He said Cast Away is the first time he’s been in front of a camera since being fingered at This Morning. No, you also did that BBC interview with …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NOBODY WANTS THIS on NETFLIX!
Nobody Wants This is a romcom drama where Joanne (Kristen Bell – The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window) has an unsuccessful love life, with her latest date …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE WIVES on Channel 5!
The Wives opens with Beth Morgan (Jo Joyner – For Her Sins) looking for Annabelle, wife of Charlie, who’s gone missing and her mobile is left at the top of the cliff… One year later, …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of LUDWIG on BBC1!
Ludwig – aka John Taylor (David Mitchell – Migration 3D), is an introvert who does all kinds of puzzles, crosswords, logic puzzles, sudoku et al. Yep, a massive nerd. He’s basically Peep Show‘s Mark Corrigan …
Continue readingMy BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE PENGUIN on HBO/Sky Atlantic!
The Penguin is the long-awaited spin-off from 2022’s unimaginitively-titled The Batman, opening with the news that a number of explosions have taken place, killing many people near Gotham’s seawall, thus affecting only its poorest neighbourhood, …
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