2022 Men's Six Nations Round Two.
Round two kicked off with the two matches full of real tension on the Saturday, Sunday was England v Italy, a match that we all assumed was a foregone conclusion. Wales v ScotlandAfter last week’s...
View Article2022 Men's Six Nations Round One.
The M6N is back and so are the crowds. But Covid is still here and affecting the coaches and the build up to the matches. It’s going to be an interesting year.On to the match reports.Ireland v...
View ArticleLicorice Pizza
I suppose I should start this review with a potential trigger warning. I know of five people who have seen this film and who I’ve heard talk about it. From that group, one feels that the central...
View ArticleA Discovery of Witches (season 3)
Season three of A Discovery of Witches is the season that diverges most dramatically from the source material, sometimes in tiny ways and sometimes in much bigger ways. Some of that, I’m fairly sure,...
View ArticleDon't Look Up
Parts of this film were really well observed. One that springs very easily to mind: Kate aiming for a spliff after the opening phone call; someone knows a chunk of astronomy PhD students. At the same...
View ArticleThe Eve of the Daleks
Having roundly castigated Chibnal for being a terrible Dr. Who writer, with justification, he produced a standalone in Eve of the Daleks that certainly ranks among the best of the Christmas/New Year...
View ArticleTop TV of 2021
I’m going to break a habit and rank my TV shows, 1-25, rather than just group them by excellent to terrible. While I’m not sure these rankings are definitive, in the sense that Lupin and Wynonna Earp...
View ArticleFilms of the Year 2021
Promising Young WomanDune Part OneThe Matrix ResurrectionsNo Time To DieA Quiet Place Part IIThe CourierKateThe Suicide SquadGunpowder MilkshakeContagionEternalsFear Street Part One: 1994The Witcher:...
View ArticleThe Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time is a moderately close adaptation of The Eye of the World, book one of The Wheel of Time series. I’ve read a chunk of these before I gave up, having got bored and, honestly, I wouldn’t...
View ArticleFear Street Part Three: 1666
Apologies for this one too. I watched it when it came out, wrote the review and somehow never posted it. Mea culpa.Quick warning: I think this film should come with trigger warnings for violence...
View ArticleThe Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
With apologies for the late posting, I watched this three months ago, wrote the review, but never posted it...Nightmare of the Wolf is an animated film set in the world of The Witcher and although it’s...
View ArticleMulan (the live action remake)
After deciding not to watch Mulan based on how crap the reviews were, I finally watched it as an act of masochistic submission. I would not have watched it under any other circumstances and while my...
View ArticleThe Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix Resurrections is a film with a lot of weight of expectations behind it. For me I have to say it more than lived up to them and I really enjoyed it. However, I heard, and sympathise with, a...
View ArticleAnna
Anna is essentially the ultra-glamorous version of Red Sparrow. We have a beautiful Russian woman, trained by the KGB, as a spy, and more pertinently this time, as an assassin. There are elements that...
View ArticleThe Unforgivable
The Unforgivable is a harrowing story ostensibly about a female ex-con trying to rebuild her life, and that is what the central character does, but I felt it was much more about the reactions of the...
View ArticleDr Who - Flux
Oh Chris Chibnall. You have done precisely two things for Dr. Who. You were the show runner that brought us a female Doctor, for which I am eternally grateful. You have also made me glad that RTD is...
View ArticleContagion
Contagion is a film that didn’t do all that well on first release and, somehow, I didn’t watch at the start of the Covid pandemic when it was really in the news. It’s an interesting film, I understand...
View ArticleLocke and Key (Season 1, Netflix)
Locke and Key is an interesting series. The broad overview of the world is simple: there are magic keys associated with Locke House and the Locke family, turn them in the right way and the magic...
View ArticleEternals
Eternals is a big, jam-packed movie that I enjoyed but I can’t help feeling it would have been better as a series than a film. We have no less than ten Eternals who are, notionally at least, new...
View ArticleYou (season three)
You season three picks up a few months after the end of season two. I don’t remember exactly how many, but Love was pregnant at the end of season two, and gives birth in the first episode of season...
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