His Dark Materials is the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels which I have never read, nor did I see The Golden Compass, the 2007 movie made with the intention to kickstart a whole trilogy, but like Daniel Craig’s other trilogy attempt to redo The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, neither got beyond the first outing. […]
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Luther Season 5‘s arrival means the man with the grey trench coat is back. Women will love this, since it’s only a handful of minutes before Idris Elba is taking his shirt off in the bathroom. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk […]
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Mrs Wilson stars Miss Wilson, i.e. Ruth Wilson, as Alison Wilson. Confused? You won’t be, after this week’s episode of…Soap! …I mean, I’ll just pull my head out of the ’80s for a moment… Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. […]
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and schoolboys Enn (Alex Sharp), John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (AJ Lewis) stumble upon the weirdest party, which […]
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The Little Stranger tells the story of Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson – Ex Machina), the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has […]
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, from John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late 70s. Under the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero […]
The Affair Episode 10 – Finally, it’s the end!! And part 1 is, as often happens, Noah’s part, and he’s back in New York and back swimming in the pool where he did so in the first episode, bumping into the same hottie he did back then, who tells him she’s engaged, and then wonders […]
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The Affair Episode 9 – and Episode 9 means that we’re nearly at the end! At last!!!! In this penultimate episode, we begin with Alison. Despite being in New York where Noah lives, both of them are dicking around town and he has a great idea (not) to take her back to his and bang […]
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The Affair Episode 8 finds us back with Noah, as almost always usual. School’s in and he’s teaching again, and comparing Romeo and Juliet to the troubles in his own relationship. Next, he goes for a meal with Helen at a restaurant where the table is helpfully right in the centre of the room, so […]
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The Affair Episode 7 begins again with Noah, and both he and Helen are with Whitney’s shrink just before they all go back home… and she can sense that one of her parents is having an affair… and assumes it’s Helen doing the do with slimy Max! Noah suggestes them all heading home ‘today’, but […]
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