The Simpsons Season 4 is an incredibly confident and well rounded season of comedy, that is willing to take risks and explore stories it previously wouldn’t have been able to. While I don’t think it is necessarily the shows best season, overall it is the perfect example of the groundbreaking and all encompassing appeal that …
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Killing Eve Season 3 – Still Got It (Reaction)
Following last week’s blockbuster episode, season 3 continued to take big risks, this time changing the structure and framing the episode like a classic Tarantino film, following individual characters and watching them eventually overlap, and it works to great success. The story continues to progress nicely and all the characters feel like the are being …
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Normal People (2020) – TV Review
Ever since the BBC released this series, a week ago today, there has been a lot of talk and hype about the show. Often this is a bandwagon thing, but with this show, it is thoroughly deserved. It is a brutally emotional, entirely convincing, strikingly romantic, and stunningly acted look at love and growing up. …
Darkman (1990) – Review
A Universal Picture, Written by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Chuck Pfarrer, Daniel Goldin, Joshua Goldin, Directed by Sam Raimi. Sam Raimi is the legendary director of ‘The Evil Dead’, ‘Spider-Man’ Trilogy, and the upcoming ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, and this is one of his most famous ‘cult’ hits. An early career starring …
Batman: Year One (2011) – Review
A Warner Bros Picture, Written by Tab Murphy, Directed by Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery. Over the years DC has produced some truly special animation, from Batman: The Animated Series all the way through to the current Harley Quinn show, and while this isn’t a particularly bad film, it certainly doesn’t match up to those heights. …
Dummy (2020) – TV Review
On the face of it, a show where our lead forms a friendship with her boyfriend’s sex doll, based on the true life relationship of Cody Heller and Dan Harmon (writer of Rick and Morty), sounds completely bonkers. In reality, it still absolutely is. However, as the show goes on, you start to accept the …
Friday Night Dinner Season 6 (2020) – TV Review
This is one of those shows that you either like or you don’t. It has a very particular style of humour, a family related farce. I personally really enjoy it. While this season was certainly up and down, probably more so than any of the previous seasons, it was nice to be able to switch …
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Breeders (2020) – TV Review
This show from Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison (from the team behind Veep) and Martin Freeman, is simply put, one of the best shows of 2020. It is genuinely laugh out loud funny, with a real dark humour and a serious is underlying drama about parenthood and personal growth, and the tone is mixed perfectly. …
Superman (1978) – Review
A Warner Bros Picture, Written by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Directed by Richard Donner. This film is often regarded as the first ‘great’ superhero movie, and it is tough to argue. The film is simply excellent, with a real focus on the characters and interactions, instead of just non-stop action (due …
Men In Black: International (2019) – Review
A Sony Picture, Written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Directed by F. Gary Gray. Revamping ‘Men in Black’ without Will Smith was always going to be a tough task, but the casting of Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as the new leads gave me hope that Sony could really pull this off. However, that trust …
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