The Capture is a new cop drama which begins with some CCTV of a man kissing woman, then a bus goes past, and then something is seen but what is it? We’re not shown, but once the opening credits are over, it goes back to 18 hours earlier… Here, soldier Shaun Emery (Callum Turner) is […]
Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams begins the new 10-part series with The Hood Maker, airing on Channel 4 in the UK and Amazon in the US, and feels like their alternative to Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, whose fourth series is due on Netflix later this year. As you’d expect with the creator of Blade Runner, […]
Strike… Cormoran Strike. Who on Earth has a surname of Strike? Maybe that’s why JK picked it. Yes, JK Rowling, since Robert Galbraith, the ‘author’ of the books on which this series is based, is her pen name. The Cuckoo’s Calling is the first of three stories to be brought to the small screen centred […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series 
Tags: Adelle Leonce, Amber Anderson, Ben Richards, Brian Bovell, Bronson Webb, Callie Coke, David Avery, Elarica Johnson, Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Greg McKenzie, Holliday Grainger, JK Rowling, Jackie Larkin, Jazz Cartier, Kadiff Kirwan, Kerr Logan, Kevin Fuller, Killian Scott, Leo Bill, Martin Shaw, Michael Keillor, Natasha O'Keeffe, Neil Blair, Robert Galbraith, Ruth Kenley-Letts, Strike, Suzanna Hamilton, Tara Fitzgerald, Tezlym Senior-Sakutu, The Cuckoo's Calling, Tom Burke 
2 Comments »Tulip Fever stars Christoph Waltz (Spectre) as artist Cornelis Sandvoort, who falls for young, married Sophia (Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander, right, with Waltz) while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom), with a screenplay by […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, David Harewood, Deborah Moggach, Holliday Grainger, Jack O'Connell, Judi Dench, Justin Chadwick, Kevin McKidd, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander, Tom Stoppard, Tulip Fever, Zach Galifianakis No Comments »My Cousin Rachel looks like a tedious period drama where a young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, Rachel (Rachel Weisz), believing that she murdered his guardian. However, his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. Directed by Roger Michell, who also wrote the screenplay […]
Tulip Fever stars Christoph Waltz (Spectre) as artist Cornelis Sandvoort, who falls for young, married Sophia (Ex Machina‘s Alicia Vikander, right, with Waltz) while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom), with a screenplay by […]
Posted in Movie, TV & game trailers Tags: Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, David Harewood, Deborah Moggach, Holliday Grainger, Jack O'Connell, Judi Dench, Justin Chadwick, Kevin McKidd, Matthew Morrison, Tom Hollander, Tom Stoppard, Tulip Fever, Zach Galifianakis No Comments »The Finest Hours is a new Disney drama set in February 1952, when one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. And now, a “Special Look” has been released, but it’s more like […]
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the tale of this woman… Lady Chatterley is her name. She’s played by Holliday Grainger and she’s got this lover, and, erm… they get up to rumpy pumpy, except when it’s on BBC1 post-a load of its problems. Hubby Sir Clifford Chatterley (James Norton) came back from World War I in […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Carly Paradis, Chris Morrison, DH Lawrence, Edward Holcroft, Elizabeth Rider, Enzo Cilenti, Eve Ponsonby, Holliday Grainger, Howard Ward, Ian Peck, James Norton, Jed Mercurio, Jodie Comer, Katy Kenyon, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Richard Madden, Sebastian Gray, Serena Cullen, Tony Pritchard No Comments »The Finest Hours is a new Disney drama set in February 1952, when one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, […]
Cinderella is the tale that’s been told many a time, and now Disney are bringing out a live action version, starring Lily James as the titular heroine. The story of Cinderella follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella […]
