being frank: the chris sievey story is the film for which i’ve been waiting several years to be made… that’s because i was a huge fan of frank sidebottom, the bizarre and incredible creation of the genius that was chris sievey, who also us brought us the freshies‘ i’m in love with the girl on […]
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No Comments » Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story is a documentary I’ve been waiting so long for, and I’m hoping it actually does justice to the great man, best known for portraying Frank Sidebottom with his papier-mache head, whereas 2014’s Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, was so misguided, the master tapes should be burned along with every DVD […]
Early Man takes us back to the dawn of man, with lead character Dug (Eddie Redmayne) looking very much like the cheese-loving Wallace with his goofy teeth. Baddie of the piece goes to Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) wanting to mine the ground, and it becomes a cross between the dawn of time and ancient Rome. […]
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Home From Home started life as one of BBC2’s rather poor 2016 pilots, with Johnny Vegas in the lead role as Neil Hackett, father of a family who up sticks and move to the Lake District (so, very reminiscent of Jack Dee’s Bad Move when he and his missus move to he country). This first […]
The Generation Game was a ’70s and ’80s mainstay of Saturday night TV with Bruce Forsyth and, then, Larry Grayson, both of whom have since passed on. With the BBC scraping the barrel beyond recognition with painful ‘search for a star’ competitions like The Voice, All Together Now and Let It Shine, they go for […]
Early Man is set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, and tells the story of Dug (Eddie Redmayne), along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home. Naturally, it has a mostly-all-star […]
Grimsby started off with a better title, in my eyes – The Brothers Grimsby, it being a play on the Brothers Grimm, even though it’s not a fairy tale, so perhaps that’s why they changed it. Plus, their surname isn’t Grimsby, it’s Butcher. Not that any of that really matters. What does matter is that, […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Amaan Hendricks, Ant Hines, Bob Cryer, Claudia Adshead, David Buckley, David Harewood, David James, Erran Baron Cohen, Freddie Crowder, Gabriel Palmer, Grimsby, Isla Fisher, Janie Booth, Joanna Bobin, John Thomson, Johnny Vegas, Jon-Jon Lockwood, Jorge de Juan, Kyle Rowe, Laura Therese, Lewis Johnson, Lex Shrapnel, Louis Leterrier, Margaret Jackman, Mark Strong, Matthew Baldwin, Mika Behrman, Miles Evans, Nira Park, Paul Thornley, Penélope Cruz, Peter Baynham, Phil Johnston, Rebecca Front, Rebel Wilson, Ricky Tomlinson, Rory Keenan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sam Hazeldine, Scott Adkins, Shaun Thomas, Steve Scott, Tamsin Egerton, The Brothers Grimsby, Todd Schulman, Yusuf Hofri, Zachary Sutcliffe No Comments »If there was ever a film with unfair criticism heaped upon it by those who had never seen it, it was this year’s British comedy Sex Lives of the Potato Men. That’s not to say it’s the funniest film I’ve ever seen, but it’s definitely one worth a watch by those who are going to […]
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