Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive details the BBC Breakfast presenter’s fight after he was sadly diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2017, this coming shortly after filming The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer. He was only 61 at this time in his life, and openly declares that he ignored potential early warning […]
Missing Link stars Hugh Jackman as the charismatic Sir Lionel Frost, who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel’s last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on traveling to America’s Pacific Northwest to […]
Duck Duck Goose is another example of how Hollywood has run out of ideas, following Emoji Movie and The Nut Job 2. In this latest CGI laugh-free fest, Peng (Jim Gaffigan) is a freewheeling bachelor goose who’d rather do anything than practice for the upcoming migration. He thinks he’s better than everyone else and spends […]
Love And Friendship is based on Jane Austen‘s novella “Lady Susan“, and was a film I was really looking forward to after watching the trailer. It opened with introductions to members of the cast, as they looked on in an awkward style, as one might many centuries ago when faced with a modern film camera. […]
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No Comments »BAFTA 2016 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 8th. Best Actor: Ben Whishaw, London Spy Idris Elba, Luther Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall Stephen Graham, This is England 90 Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running […]
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The Man Who Knew Infinity is Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (Slumdog Millionaire‘s Dev Patel) who, while growing up poor in Madras, India, earned admittance to Cambridge University during World War I where he became a pioneer in mathematical theories under the guidance of his professor, GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons). Also starring Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Kevin […]
Alice Through The Looking Glass sees a return to Tim Burton‘s world and when Alice (Mia Wasikowska) wakes up in Wonderland she must travel through a mysterious new world to retrieve a magical scepter that can stop the evil Lord of Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) before he turns forward the clock and turns Wonderland into […]
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Little Big Planet 3 is the first LBP game I’ve played on the PS3 and, in fact, to date I’ve only ever played the original game on the PSP but I loved it with a passion. And while previous games in the series had 3 levels of into-the-screenness at most, this one has a massive […]
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies takes us back into J.R.R. Tolkein‘s Middle Earth for the final time. The poster hypes this entry as being “The Definining Chapter” – it’s not, it’s just the last one. The film begins with Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch) travelling towards Laketown to blow it apart with fire – […]
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