Journey’s End takes place towards the conclusion of World War I, for a few days from Monday, 18th March 1918 onwards, in St Quentin, Northern France. There’s a stalemate, and the Germans want to break this. It’ll mean an attack from their side, but as each company of soldiers must spend 6 days, out of […]
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No Comments »Journey’s End is the seminal British play about World War I, set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918. It tells the tale of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope (Sam Claflin), variously awaiting their fate. Possibly entertainming, but doesn’t look wildly different from anything we’ve seen before. […]
Bad Move sees Steve (Jack Dee) and Nicky (Kerry Godliman) making a ‘bad move’ because they sell up their house in the city and relocate to the country in what turns out to be a… yes, you guessed it, a ‘bad move’. The jokes fail to begin early on as Dee moans that they’ve moved […]
Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle is another in the long line of Steve Coogan‘s character’s spin-offs and I can’t claim to have seen every last minute of his output, but what I have seen I’ve hugely enjoyed – apart from parts of I’m Alan Partridge Series 2 where he actually looked older than the later ‘Alpha […]
The Monuments Men is a film that can be summed up in one sentence, and really should be meant to play out equally succinctly but, unfortunately, is allowed by its director and lead actor, George Clooney, to drag out for a mind-numbing two hours. Under the order from President Franklin D Roosevelt, art experts Frank […]
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