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HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
True story of an American soldier who refused to kill during WWII, but whose bravery resulted in him becoming the first person in US history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot…
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THE OA – Season One
I love a good mystery, but the concern with ongoing TV mysteries, as opposed to movies or books, is they’re often designed to last for years. And it’s difficult to keep a mystery engaging for that long, so others questions are often added to complicate matters and perhaps fill some time. Sometimes this approach works…
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COHEN & TATE (1988)
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other’s throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed.
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
“Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that kept the equally fragmentary “Travelers” driving along. Trade minister Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) has disappeared from his office. He finds himself in a very different world; one full of light and cherry blossoms and…
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GIRLS – Season Five
HBO’s Girls started as an Emmy darling. It was bold and it had something to say, but now it appears to be a Conservative whipping boy that might just go down in history for being the TV show that made Adam Driver famous. The show never reached the heights of Sex and the City — and, now…
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KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (2016)
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
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LIVE BY NIGHT (2016)
A group of Boston gangsters set up shop in Florida during Prohibition, competing with rivals and the Klu Klux Klan.
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GOODFELLAS (1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
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SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed the mythology of Holmes and Watson that underpinned the series since 2010, to plough a self-indulgent path away from its source material. How ironic then that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s own tale “The…
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HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
