I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
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I, Daniel Blake begins with the 59-year-old carpenter titular character, portrayed by comedian Dave Johns, applying for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance), and being asked a succession of – irrelevant, to him – questions when …
Continue readingSS-GB is set in an alternate past, beginning in November 1941, fourteen months after the Germans won the Battle of Britain… yes, you read that right. Due to extreme austerity, it’s not only a time …
Continue readingResident Evil: The Final Chapter: before this even began I knew that, in a few years, I’d be back in almost the same seat to watch No.7 in the series. Oddly, this one didn’t start …
Continue readingThe Girl On The Train stars Emily Blunt as Rachel, the titular lady and functioning alcoholic, staring out from her train cabin, spotting the young woman who leans out of 15 Beckett Road, and over-imagining …
Continue readingThe Good Karma Hospital is essentially Doc Hollywood meets Casualty, as fish-out-of-water-cum-aspiring-hopeful junior doctor Ruby Walker (Game Of Thrones‘ Amrita Acharia) goes on a passage to India to work in a big fancy hospital that …
Continue readingFortitude Season 2 Episode 2 begins with an unknown drifter talking incoherently while staring at something in the distance… a bear… carrying something… a reindeer calf, but…. he’s got no eyes! How does he smell? …
Continue readingPeter Capaldi has announced he’s leaving Doctor Who in this year’s Christmas episode, but this will come as no surprise. Showrunner Steven Moffat, who showed such great promise with episodes like Blink, but he gave …
Continue readingRaising Cain is a film I loved first time I saw it, but since it’s been a long time since then, and with this new release featuring both versions, I delved straight into the director’s …
Continue readingUnder The Shadow is a Persian drama set during the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 where, due to being politically active at one time, Shideh (Narges Rashidi) is being chucked out of medical school. Everywhere she turns, …
Continue readingLove Stalk highlights the problem a lot of us have in that we probably share too much of our lives online. Do you really need to Instagram your dinner? Well, if everyone else does… Sharon …
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