How to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and schoolboys Enn (Alex Sharp), John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (AJ Lewis) stumble upon the weirdest party, which […]
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The Woman In White is a ghost of some sort, driving people mad, as she scares others, going about her daily business.. Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy) is an artist, or ‘drawing master’ as it says here, and he’s got a new job offer, leaving Walford, London to spend the next two months working for provincial […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Art Malik, Ben Hardy, Carl Tibbetts, Cathy Belton, Charles Dance, Clare McMahon, Cole Curran, Dougray Scott, Fiona Seres, Frankie McCafferty, Ivan Kaye, James Flynn, Jesse Magee, Jessie Buckley, Joanna Scanlan, Matthew Lawson, Olivia Vinall, Ruth Sheen, Sarah Curtis, The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins No Comments »How to Talk to Girls at Parties, from John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late 70s. Under the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero […]
Requiem centres around top cellist Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson, who fans of Star Trek Beyond will remember as Kalara, the alien who sought help from Kirk et al after telling them Idris Elba’s Krall had attacked her ship), a young woman at the top of her game who’s about to embark on a concert tour […]
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Crazy Diamond is the fourth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, although it was originally scheduled to be the fifth, as it’s swapped places with next week’s Real Life. Not quite sure why as, while it’s stars Steve Buscemi and Borgen‘s Sidse Babett Knudsen, it’s not as good as those we’ve had already. That […]
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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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No Offence is the latest Paul Abbott drama to come to Channel 4 in a blaze of publicity, with the same trailer being shown about 954 times in the past few weeks, or so it felt. The first episode was led by the stunning Elaine Cassidy as half-Polish DC Dinah Kowalska and single mum, out […]
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Midsomer Murders has now reached 100 episodes and I have to admit that this was the first episode I have ever seen of it, but I wanted to see it because it features Borgen’s Katrine Fønsmark, aka Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, as one of the Danish policewomen called in to the investigation within. The chairman of […]
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