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OUTLANDER, 3.3 – ‘All Debts Paid’
When we return to Boston in 1956 it’s clear, from the title alone, “All Debts Paid”, that this episode of Outlander is going to settle several outstanding accounts. As I mentioned last week, Diana Gabaldon’s book Voyager, on which this third season’s based, is told largely from Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) point of view. In the…
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.1 & 1.2 – ‘The Vulcan Hello’ & ‘Battle at the Binary Stars’
On the face of it, Star Trek: Discovery isn’t offering much that’s new. We’ve had a darker, serialised Trek series with a black lead before (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); we’ve had a female protagonist (Star Trek: Voyager); there’s already been a prequel series (Star Trek: Enterprise); and the reboot movies give you a look…
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THE WALKING DEAD – Season Seven
It feels like only yesterday horror fans were excited by news of AMC adapting Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s beloved comic-book series The Walking Dead. Nobody could’ve predicted the incredible success it’s achieved over the years, occasionally attracting 17 million viewers in the US. Now with a TV prequel, video games, action figures, and other…
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SONG TO SONG (2017)
Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas…
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OUTLANDER, 3.2 – ‘Surrender’
The new season of Outlander continues steadily on its course, with “Surrender” building on themes and subplots established in “The Battle Joined” and proving that its drama can be driven by the frustrating separation of lead characters Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan). With the tragedy of Culloden having been depicted, a much subtler…
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DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (1972)
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
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BOJACK HORSEMAN – Season Four
It can’t be overstated that BoJack Horseman is one of the best television shows currently airing, animated or otherwise. Netflix’s comedy about a washed-up actor (who just so happens to also be a horse) is something truly special and unique, and continues to prove so in a fourth season that’s perhaps its strongest to date.…
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TRUST ME (BBC, 2017)
Cath Hardacrre (Jodie Whittaker) is an overworked and underpaid ward sister in a Sheffield Hospital. She’s also mother to a young daughter with a useless ex (played by The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison), who’s fired from her job after whistleblowing hospital negligence to the press. But after Cath’s best friend and doctor Alison Sutton (Andrea Lowe)…
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A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, only to then try double-cross each other for the loot.
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959)
A Scottish professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer’s trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth’s core.
