The much anticipated launch of the Killing Eve season 3 trailer not only delivered some great and fascinating scenes, but also a huge shocker, as the show will launch two weeks earlier than originally planned, now on 12th April. This is great news for fans, and just for everyone in general who will now be […]
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Girls (2012) – TV Review
Lena Dunham’s hit breakout comedy was a huge deal for the years it was on air and made many of its cast and crew into household names. However, in more recent years, due to some of Dunham’s questionable comments and retrospective criticisms of the shows lack of racial diversity and problematic presentations of sexuality, the […]
Avenue 5 (2020) – TV Review
HBO’s new star-studded comedy from creator Armando Iannucci is on the face of it a large scale, sci-fi comedy, but like many Iannucci shows, it is much more about the characters and their interactions and situations they get themselves in, and that is where it thrives. Following a reasonably slow start, the show really found […]
Silent Witness Season 23 (2020) – TV Review
Silent Witness has become an incredibly rare beast, a continuing crime drama on the BBC that has now lasted into its third decade, with seemingly no sign of it slowing down (it has been renewed for two more seasons, which will include its 25th anniversary season). This is a show I watched from my early […]
Veep (2012) – TV Review
‘Veep’ is one of the most respected and awarded comedies of recent times, but it never became a huge hit in the UK (mainly because we had already had ‘The Thick of It’) but with the world now essentially in lock down, I decided it was as good a time as any to give the […]
Elizabeth Is Missing (2019) – TV Review
Alzheimer’s/Dementia is one of the most difficult and emotionally shattering illnesses that a family can deal with, and it is therefore not shown very often in the correct manner on screen. However, in the BBC’s feature length adaptation ‘Elizabeth is Missing’ the genius decision to have a dementia sufferer essentially trying to play detective and […]
Lost Girls (2020) – Review
A Netflix Original Picture, Written by Michael Werwie, Directed by Liz Garbus. This is a film based on a true life story that has many dark turns and shocking moments, but you wouldn’t know any of that from simply watching the film. It is told in a very cold and undramatic manner, with very few […]
Mistress America (2015) – Review
A Fox Searchlight Picture, Written by Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Directed by Noah Baumbach. Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are two of the most influential people associated with the ‘mumblecore’ movies, and their collaborations are often seen as some of the high points of those movies. Here we have Gerwig as co-writer and star, and […]
Charlie’s Angels (2019) – Review
A Sony Picture, Written by Evan Spiliotopoulos, David Auburn, Elizabeth Banks, Directed by Elizabeth Banks. This was one of the most unasked for and lowest grossing remakes in recent history, and I never got round to seeing it when it was originally in cinemas. However, it was to my surprise that I actually enjoyed the […]
Buffaloed (2020) – Review
A Magnolia Picture, Written by Brian Sacca, Directed by Tanya Wexler. The pitch of this film being “a female wolf of Wall Street” does ring true in many ways, but it is by no means is a rip off and is very different to that film in many ways. I would say that it is […]
