Happy New Year, Colin Burstead comes from Ben Wheatley who usually provides us rather off-the-wall movies such as Free Fire, Sightseers and A Field In England, so there’s always something going on, it’s almost always entertaining, and they’re pretty brief. This latest one, which was shown at the London Film Festival and now is only […]
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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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Mister Winner is so-called as Leslie Winner (Spencer Jones) sets out the bog-standard premise of him wanting to propose to his girlfriend, Jemma (Aimee-Ffion Edwards), while she wants to dump him because he prats about too much and isn’t at all serious. The billing for this set up Mister Winner as “hapless but loveable”, a […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of two spin-offs to the Star Wars canon, this one placed inbetween the lacklustre Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and next Christmas’ Episode VIII. Episode IX will come at Christmas 2019, with a young Han Solo movie being released at the yuletide season inbetween… […]
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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 […]
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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), […]
A Field in England is a film that, I had a feeling would be an odd little movie and, on that score, I certainly wasn’t disappointed. Set in 1648, during the English Civil War, Whitehead (Reece Shearsmith) and his band of men are doing their best to flee the ensuing melee, just as their Commander-in-chief […]
Sightseers: Three months into any relationship and couples are still trying to find out what makes each other tick. At this point for Sightseers Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) his world by taking her on a caravan holiday around the green and pleasant land of the Lake District with sights […]
