The Personal History of David Copperfield is a film with a title that made my heart sink – ANOTHER period drama? Thankfully, not, as it comes from Armando Iannucci (In The Loop), who has directed this new movie. Yes, it’s based on the novel by Charles Dickens, but you can be sure that it’ll have […]
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Bridget Jones’ Baby – let’s get this right from the start. For me, that’s the title, NOT “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Who puts the extra, redundant ‘s’ in these things? Probably the same people who say ‘forward slash’ in a web address, when it’s just ‘slash’. You’d only have a ‘back slash’ if you had an […]
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Luther Series 4 began with DCI John Luther still in a dark place after losing his partner, DS Justin Ripley (Warren Brown), which led me to hope that Series 3 would be followed by a movie going back in time, rather like a prequel. However, this sB018G7NUUUeries is a two-parter over two weeks which still […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Charlotte Pyke, Clem So, Darren Boyd, Dermot Crowley, Idris Elba, Jason Julien-Connage, Joanna Croll, John Heffernan, Laura Haddock, Marcus Wilson, Michael Obiora, Michael Smiley, Neil Cross, Patrick Malahide, Paul Blackwell, Rose Leslie, Sam Miller, Simone James, luther, warren brown No Comments »Luther, John Luther. Rather like “Bond, James Bond”. Go on, give Idris Elba the role next time! Anyhoo, in the meantime, the actor, DJ enthusiast and Sky supporter returns this Christmas in a new two-parter, which is technically the fourth series, although they’ve got shorter over time. Series 1 was 6-parter, while series 2 and […]
The Delivery Man had a fair bit to live up to, following on from the first new episode of Newzoids, and ITV’s track record of sitcoms shows that for every The Job Lot, there are several instances of Babes In The Wood, Brighton Belles and Duck Patrol… The premise is that Matthew Bunting (Darren Boyd, […]
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Fortitude Episode 10 begins with Henry enjoying the only thing you can enjoy about this dire series – the snowy hilltops on a clear day, as he listens to his old-fangled Sony Walkman. Lorcan Cranitch from Cracker is trying to get hold of Morton and we learn, as he calls the man’s phone and it […]
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Fortitude Episode 9 begins by showing us Ronnie’s brutal murder but not showing who did the deed. Was it Frank? Then we cut to Liam, having spent most of the series in that bloody hyperbaric chamber while actress Jessica Raine has been given nothing beter to do, playing his mother Jules, than sit there and […]
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Fortitude Episode 8 begins in the aftermath of Shirley vomiting into her Mum’s stomach, and she’s now outside… in the FREEZING cold, barefoot and bloodstained. Whatever she’s been doing in the interim, it’s happened offscreen, which is rather a swizz given how Sweet Fanny Adams has happened ONscreen for the majority of this dirge! So, […]
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Fortitude Episode 7 takes us past the halfway point and I was promised this episode would FINALLY be good! That would make the first one, so far, then. It’s Chrrrrrrrrriiiisssttmaaaaaaassss! As Noddy Holder might say. And the bearded nutter who was holding a rifle, earlier in the series, is drinking aplenty. And he’s drinking with […]
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Fortitude Episode 6 starts with a flashback, jumping a few episodes back to when Frank was having it away with Elena. Jules is seen heading out without a hat on, and is chanced upon by Henry, who insists frostbite can severely knacker your ears and wants her to take his hat because he doesn’t live […]
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