Once Removed is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 4, and kicks off with an opening-and-a-half which leads to a situation which has to be seen to be believed, before the action heads back to ten minutes earlier. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same […]
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That said, this is rumoured to be the W1A‘s last. This time, the BBC is heading towards its charter renewal, and […]
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The Witness For The Prosecution is one of many TV and film adaptions based on the original Agatha Christie short story, based in London, August 1923. Emily French (Kim Cattrall) is a wealthy woman with an embittered maid, Janet McIntyre (Monica Dolan) and a penchant for younger men, her latest dalliance being Leonard (Billy Howle), […]
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The Falling leads with Game Of Thrones and Cyberbully star Maisie Williams as Lydia, a precocious young schoolgirl, whose rebellious character would, these days, be doing the cyberbullying. However, in this film there is yet no internet for the mass market because it’s 1969 and, amongst the sexual awakening of these girls, led by Lydia […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Amelia Holder, Anna Burnett, Ben Kerfoot, Cairo Cannon, Carol Morley, Elizabeth Marsh, Ellen Claire Sutherland, Ellie Bamber, Evie Hooton, Florence Pugh, Freddie Andrews, Greta Scacchi, Guy Morris, Hannah Stokely, Joe Cole, Katie Ann Knight, Lauren McCrostie, Louise Templeton, Luc Roeg, Magda Grace Salvesen, Maisie Williams, Mathew Baynton, Monica Dolan, Morfydd Clark, Rose Caton, Sarah Lowe, Sasha Constance, The Falling, Tracey Thorn, maxine peake 2 Comments »W1A Series 2 returns to BBC2 next week and as the recent teaser confirms, this new series will DEFINITELY be on BBC2, even if PR guru Siobhan Sharpe Jessica Hynes isn’t quite sure. W1A is the the postcode of BBC Broadcasting House and the series will again be written by John Morton, and features the […]
The Casual Vacancy Episode 3 finally puts itself out of its misery, and a good job too as, quite frankly, over the course of these three weeks I could’ve pulled a better story out of my arse! Howard and Miles are fussing over the vandalism on the front of the former’s pie shop, adorned with […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Abigail Lawrie, Brian Vernel, Bryce Sanders, Emilia Fox, Emily Bevan, Hettie Baynes Russell, J.K. Rowling, Joe Hurst, Jonny Campbell, Julia McKenzie, Julian Wadham, Keeley Forsyth, Keeley Hawes, Lolita Chakrabarti, Marie Critchley, Mary Roscoe, Menna Trussler, Michael Gambon, Michele Austin, Monica Dolan, Pascal Laurent, Ria Choony, Richard Glover, Rory Kinnear, Rufus Jones, Ruth Kenley-Letts, Sam Redford, Sarah Phelps, Silas Carson, Simon McBurney, Simona Brown, Solomon Grey, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, The Casual Vacancy, The Casual Vacancy Episode 3, Vass Anderson No Comments »
The Casual Vacancy Episode 2 began with Barry’s funeral, and threats from beyond the grave that the dead man was going to rock the foundations of Pagford in some way. Half-brother Simon was also making his presence felt by passing flyers round, during the service, declaring that he was running for the casual vacancy in […]
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The Casual Vacancy 4 is an adaptation of a J.K. Rowling novel and is set in the fictional town of Pagford, in the suburban West Country. In a cast filled with famous faces, Parish council member Barry Fairbrother (Rory Kinnear) is preparing for his wedding anniversary to Mary (Emily Bevan), but he looks in the […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Abigail Lawrie, Alex Lowe, Baynes Russell, Brian Vernel, Bryce Sanders, Elizabeth Rider, Emilia Fox, Emily Bevan, J.K. Rowling, Jacob Krichefski, Joe Hurst, Jonny Campbell, Julia McKenzie, Julian Wadham, Keeley Forsyth, Keeley Hawes, Lolita Chakrabarti, Marie Critchley, Menna Trussler, Michael Gambon, Michele Austin, Monica Dolan, Ria Choony, Richard Glover, Rory Kinnear, Rufus Jones, Ruth Kenley-Letts, Sam Redford, Sarah Phelps, Silas Carson, Simon McBurney, Simona Brown, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Sope Dirisu, The Casual Vacancy, Vass Anderson No Comments »The Casual Vacancy is a new BBC TV mini-series based on the book by J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series, in which tThe citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies. Directed by Jonny Campbell (Ashes To Ashes, In The Flesh), […]
Pride is a new British film based on real events, set during the miner’s strike. Joe (George MacKay), nicknamed Bromley for a large portion of the film, since that’s from where he hails, is a young lad going to college and looking for somewhere to fit in. He inadvertently stumbles across a small group of […]
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