It Takes You Away is the ninth – and penultimate – episode of Doctor Who Series 11, and it took the Doctor and the Scooby Doo gang away to spooky house in a forest in Norway (not Norway), in which something has taken Hanne’s father away… While the owner of the house was out and […]
Zanzibar is the name of the hotel in which the first episode of Inside No.9 Series 4 is set, and it looks at the residents on the 9th floor. It’s a difficult episode to describe because most of it centred around everyone talking at cross purposes, with situations getting confused between them all, and the […]
Gunpowder is centred around the 1605 Gunpowder plot, as Guy Fawkes wants to blow up the Houses of Parliament. However, this three-parter begins in 1603, at which point Elizabeth I has died, and James I has taken over, although it doesn’t take long before everyone wants HIM dead, too… as if any further replacements would […]
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Damned is a new sitcom about social workers who are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. In reality, they can never get a break. Too much is expected from them, and the moment something goes wrong, the press jump on them. So far, I’ve seen the first two episodes, and both have […]
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Red Dwarf XI is here, and the unexpected juggernaut shows no sign of stopping. However, for me, I loved series 1-3 – and actually went to see the first episode of the latter, Backwards, filmed in Manchester, although I particularly didn’t like the change to the more comical opening theme music from that one onwards. […]
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Hancock’s Half Hour is another in the Lost Sitcoms three-parter, following last week’s Till Death Do Us Part. The recreated episode, this time, is The New Neighbour, where Hancock (Kevin McNally) and John (Kevin Eldon) are being right noseybonks when a new guy moves in next door. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since […]
Brian Pern is the prog-rock brainchild of Rhys Thomas OBE and The Fast Show‘s Simon Day, and this boxset takes in all three series – The Life of Rock, A Life in Rock and 45 Years of Prog and Roll – each of which comprised of just three episodes… not enough, but then I’d rather […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Reviews, TV Series Tags: 45 Years Of Prog And Roll, A Life in Rock, Adjoa Andoh, Al Murray, Alan Ford, Alan Yentob, Alex Jones, Alex Petrides, Anastasia Harrold, Angela Thorne, Anna Maxwell Martin, Anne Nightingale, Ben Newth, Billy Bragg, Bob Mortimer, Brian Pern, Chas Hodges, Chrissie Hynde, Dan Cruickshank, Dan Snow, Danny John-Jules, Dave Peacock, David Arnold, David Baddiel, David Cummings, Dean Thomas, Denis Lawson, Dermot O'Leary, Frances Barber, Jack Whitehall, Jane Asher, John Humphrys, John Thomson, Jools Holland, Julia Deakin, Justyn Thomas, Kathy Burke, Kevin Eldon, Kirsty Young, Lloyd Day, Lorraine Cheshire, Lucy Montgomery, Mark King, Martin Freeman, Martin Kemp, Matt Lucas, Melanie Chisholm, Michael Smiley, Mike Read, Miranda Sawyer, Nigel Havers, Noddy Holder, Noel Edmonds, Paul Gambaccini, Paul Whitehouse, Paul Young, Peter Bowles, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Phil Cornwell, Philip Pope, Rhys Thomas, Rick Parfitt, Rick Wakeman, Roger Allam, Roger Moore, Roger Taylor, Roy Wood, Russell Grant, Simon Callow, Simon Day, Simon Godley, Simon McCoy, Stephen Holbrook, Steven Burge, Suranne Jones, The Life of Rock, Tim Rice, Tony Blackburn, Tony Way, Vic Reeves, Winston Garvey, christopher eccleston, matthew wright No Comments »Game of Thrones Season 6 is unleashed next month and the trailer has now been released. The first episode in the new season will be directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also directs the second episode, and has previous done the honours for season 5’s episodes 5 (Kill the Boy) and 6 (Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken) and […]
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Set Fire to the Stars is a film shot in black-and-white, starring Elijah Wood as John M Brinnin, an aspiring poet in 1950s New York, who has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas, played by Celyn Jones, who also co-wrote the script […]
