Les Misérables begins in June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and there are heaps of dead bodies around. The intro text tells us that after twenty years of war, France is defeated; Napoleon has been exiled and a new King is waiting to be crowned, meaning the old order will be restored, […]
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No Comments »Victoria and Abdul tells the tale I’ve never heard of before, where Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal). Directed by Stephen Frears, and based on the novel by Shrabani Basu, it also stars Olivia Williams, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Eddie Izzard, Tim […]
BAFTA 2017 Television Awards took place tonight, and the winners are as follows: Leading actor Adeel Akhtar – Murdered By My Father Leading actress Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley Supporting actress Wunmi Mosaku – Damilola: Our Loved Boy Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. […]
Posted in News Tags: Adeel Akhtar, Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle, Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, BAFTA, Charlie Brooker’s 2016 Wipe, Damilola Our Loved Boy, Emmerdale, Fleabag, Happy Valley, Hillsborough, Joanna Lumley, Michael McIntyre, Michael Mcintyre's Big Show, Murdered By My Father, Muslims Like Us, National Treasure, Nick Fraser, Our Journey to Europe, Panorama, People Just do Nothing, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Planet Earth II, Sarah Lancashire, Steve Coogan, Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed, The Night Manager, The Open Production Team, The People vs OJ Simpson, The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration, Tom Hollander, Victoria Derbyshire, Who Do You Think You Are, Wunmi Mosaku, exodus No Comments »BAFTA 2017 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 14th. Leading actor Adeel Akhtar – Murdered By My Father Babou Ceesay – Damilola, Our Loved Boy Robbie Coltrane – National Treasure Benedict Cumberbatch – The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses Leading actress Nikki Amuka-Bird – […]
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The Circuit was a title that baffled me. Is that what dinner parties are referred to? Perhaps it’s when someone invites you to one, and so you have to reciprocate. New to the area, Nat (Eva Birthistle) and Gabe (Adeel Akhtar) have been invited to one, but the latter, particularly, doesn’t want to go to […]
The Night Manager is the first John Le Carré novel to become a TV series in more than 20 years, following 1991’s TV movie, A Murder of Quality, starring Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland and Glenda Jackson and, in similar style, has attracted some top-rated talent in the form of Hugh Laurie (House) and Tom Hiddleston, […]
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Capital, with Toby Jones in the lead as financial whiz Roger, made me think the title referred to money. It may, since we see property prices increasing as the months go by, but if that’s the case then it’s rather a loose point to hang the title on. Other than that, I would assume it […]
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River is a drama I was looking forward to from when I first saw the trailer, but as with the recent From Darkness, this is another case of the BBC going through a phase of trying to copy Notdic Noir and not really succeeding at all. The whole episode felt like a checklist of well-worn […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Abi Morgan, Adeel Akhtar, Cathy Murphy, Chris Carey, Dockley Mieke, Dominic Hecht, Eddie Marsan, Fady Elsayed, Franz Drameh, Georgina Rich, Harry Escott, Jacqueline Boatswain, Josef Altin, Lesley Manville, Mouna Albakry, Nicola Walker, Nina Carey, Owen Teale, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Richard Laxton, River, Scott Hunt, Shannon Tarbet, Sorcha Cusack, Stellan Skarsgård, Steve Edwin, Turlough Convery No Comments »Pan is the story of Peter Pan (Levi Miller), an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny – to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. And now, we have a new ‘Adventure’ trailer, with lots more […]
Pan is the story of Peter Pan (Levi Miller), an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny – to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan. Hugh Jackman takes the role of Blackbeard, Rooney Mara is Tiger […]
