Summer Of Rockets is a new Stephen Poliakoff drama set around the beginning of the Cold War, circa 1957/58, and while I’ve not really been able to get into his earlier works, this one did seem quite accessible from the start. It follows Russian Jewish inventor Samuel Petrukhin (Toby Stephens) who’s living with family in […]
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Hatton Garden sees the story of the titular bank robbery being told for the third time, following 2017’s The Hatton Garden Job, and 2018’s King Of Thieves, with a more famous cast (and not as good), the latter also changing a few things along the way, such as Brian Reader (Larry Lamb, then Michael Caine, […]
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Early Man takes us back to the dawn of man, with lead character Dug (Eddie Redmayne) looking very much like the cheese-loving Wallace with his goofy teeth. Baddie of the piece goes to Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) wanting to mine the ground, and it becomes a cross between the dawn of time and ancient Rome. […]
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The Commuter is the third episode in Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams and is set in an era that feels like a mixture of ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, with decor jumping between all three. Having worked in a dank railway ticket office or 20 years, Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall) knows every stop on each train […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Alona Leoine, Ann Akin, Anne Reid, Anthony Boyle, Brodie Jouxson, Electric Dreams, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hayley Squires, Jack Thorne, Joshua Woolery-Allen, Luke Courtney, Michael Haydon, Nicole Agada, Paulina Boneva, Philip K Dick, Rebecca Manley, Rudi Dharmalingam, Rupert Ryle-Hodges, The Commuter, Timothy Spall, Tom Brooke, Tom Harper, Tuppence Middleton No Comments »Early Man is set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, and tells the story of Dug (Eddie Redmayne), along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home. Naturally, it has a mostly-all-star […]
Away is where everyone wants to get to, once in a while, but here, it’s the mismatched pairing of widower Joseph (Timothy Spall) and ex-junkie Ria (Juno Temple), as they meet in a film which drew me in and I found to be very enchanting. Meeting in Blackpool, fate brings them together as Joseph has […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Adam Riley, Anne Dudley, Away, Dannielle Raine Meyer, David Blair, Ellie Wilkes, Hayley Squires, Joanna Roth, Juno Temple, Liz Hulme Davison, Matt Ryan, Michael Knowles, Nicola Szepecko, Reece Noi, Richard Turner, Roger Hadfield, Susan Lynch, Terry Stone, Timothy Spall, Tony Pitts No Comments »New Blu-ray and DVD releases November 7th 2016 are as follows: Artificial Eye 40th Anniversary Collection Volume 4 (Blu-ray and DVD) Attack of the Lederhosenzombies (Blu-ray and DVD) Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (Blu-ray and DVD) Bones Season 11 (DVD) Cemetery of Splendour (Blu-ray and DVD) Chicago Fire Season 4 (Blu-ray and DVD) Fairy […]
Posted in New DVD and Blu-ray releases Tags: All at Sea, Attack of the Lederhosenzombies, Batman, Cemetery of Splendour, Chicago Fire, Cul De Sac, Fairy Tail, Family Guy, Gundam Reconguista in G, Harmony, Havana Moon, Imperium, Jamaica Inn, Kes, Knife in the Water, Krampus, La Grande Vadrouille, Lego Ninjago, Life Feels Good, Masters of Spinjitzu, Moving On, National Treasure, Now You See Me 2, People Just do Nothing, Photo Kano Collection, Poldark, Project Itoh, Quantico, Repulsion, Return of the Caped Crusaders, Roman Polanski, Secret World of Lego, Sirens, South Park, Taxi Driver, The Code, The Cynic the Rat and the Fist, The Initiation, The Mad Dog Killer, The Reckoning, The Rolling Stones, Things to Come, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Timothy Spall, Tutankhamun, Underbelly Files, WWE 2016 Annual, Wentworth Prison, When Marnie Was There, Wimbledon, X-Men Apocalypse, bones No Comments »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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Cider With Rosie is based on the late Laurie Lee‘s novel, partly autobiographical, telling the story of his growing up coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, staring off during World War I and continuing afterwards. However, the actual scene featuring the drinking of cider with Rosie only featured in one scene. Is this […]
Posted in Reviews, TV Series Tags: Annette Crosbie, Anthony Cozens, Archie Cox, Bebe Cave, Ben Vanstone, Billy Howle, Bob Goody, Cider with Rosie, Dylan Turland, Emma Curtis, Finn Bennett, Georgia Brinkworth, Georgie Smith, Helen Gregory, Ian Drysdale, Ines De Clercq, Isabella Polkinghorne, Jack Harris, Jake Haywood, James Inkling, Jessica Hynes, June Whitfield, Laurie Lee, Libby Easton, Matthew Steer, Maya Gerber, Peter Salem, Philippa Lowthorpe, Rafaella Hutchinson, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Samantha Morton, Sarah Sweeney, Shola Adewusi, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Timothy Spall No Comments »Mr Turner is the new Mike Leigh film, starring Timothy Spall as eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner, looking back over the man’s last 25 years, and it’s already been nominated for the 2014 Palme d’Or in Cannes. Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally […]
