House On Haunted Hill starts with a TV documentary clip about the Vannacutt lunatic asylum, and how it was run by a murderous ‘doctor’ who was to the patients of the 20th Century, what Harold …
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House On Haunted Hill starts with a TV documentary clip about the Vannacutt lunatic asylum, and how it was run by a murderous ‘doctor’ who was to the patients of the 20th Century, what Harold …
Continue readingThe Gunman stars Sean Penn in the lead role as action man Jim Terrier. He’s one of a number of men, involved in an operation far away, where they all did very bad things that …
Continue readingPaddington is the one about the bear from darkest Peru who came to live with the Brown family in London, whilst having a fetish for marmalade sandwiches. From his origins in book form in 1958, …
Continue readingThe Casual Vacancy Episode 2 began with Barry’s funeral, and threats from beyond the grave that the dead man was going to rock the foundations of Pagford in some way. Half-brother Simon was also making …
Continue readingFortitude‘s overhyped first two episodes have left me feeling – Nordic noir? More like Nordic Meh! This one-off series (which, no doubt if ratings do well will get commissioned for another), is set in a …
Continue readingThe Theory of Everything stars Birdsong‘s Eddie Redmayne as Professor Steven Hawking, who was also played, brilliantly, in the 2004 BBC film Hawking, by Benedict Cumberbatch. Both are going head-to-head in the 2015 Awards season, …
Continue readingThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies takes us back into J.R.R. Tolkein‘s Middle Earth for the final time. The poster hypes this entry as being “The Definining Chapter” – it’s not, it’s just …
Continue readingThe Expendables 3 is out to buy on Blu-ray and DVD, just before Christmas arrives, as also happened in 2010 and 2012 with the first two films, but this time round, we have the film …
Continue readingDeath In Heaven starts with Clara outsmarting a Cyberman, by trying some psychology that only a human could be perplexed by, and somehow this confuses the metal muppet, and then we’re all confused when she …
Continue readingThe Expendables 3 is, obviously, the third in the, hopefully, just a trilogy of films about aging action stars getting cameos in a last throw of the dice, for some of them. The first one, …
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