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OUTLANDER, 2.5-6 – ‘Untimely Resurrection’ & ‘Best Laid Schemes…’
After a week’s break, Frank Collins returns with a double-bill of Outlander season 2 reviews, covering the fifth and sixth episodes “Untimely Resurrection” and “Best Laid Schemes”… ‘Untimely Resurrection’ With a title like “Untimely Resurrection” the fifth episode of Outlander signals to its audience that the longed-for reunion between the Frasers and their nemesis, Jonathan…
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EASY RIDER (1969)
There have been many American movies specifically concerned with the country itself. Few are as biting, inventive, and also endlessly relevant as Easy Rider. It’s not hard to see why the release of Dennis Hopper’s film, about the volatility and polarity of American society, seems as prescient today as it was at the end of…
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THE AMERICANS, 4.9 – ‘The Day After’
The early sequence in this week’s episode of The Americans, that cuts to various characters watching the made-for-TV movie The Day After, with rapt attention, isn’t an exaggeration. The nuclear era cautionary tale, which gives this week’s episode its name, was viewed by nearly 100 million people in America on the night it premiered in…
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How To Interact With Us
Frame Rated isn’t just a website. We have other many ways you can access our content, which for some people are more convenient than steering a web-browser towards www.framerated.co.uk. So, for those unaware of them all… we’re also on… Facebook Our latest way to access Frame Rated is through Facebook. Maybe you’ve heard of it? If you prefer to…
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GREEN ROOM (2015)
Green Room doesn’t mess around. Clocking in at a lean 94-minutes, this riveting and claustrophobic thriller doesn’t waste time and shows that writer-director Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) knows exactly what he’s doing. If you’re craving something a little rough around the edges, the gritty and grimy Green Room won’t disappoint, as it throws the unlucky…
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GAME OF THRONES, 6.3 – ‘Oathbreaker’
This week on Game of Thrones, Bran ventured into the past, Jon looked to the future, Arya’s training reached its end, Ramsay received a gift, and Dany arrived at the Vaes Dothrak… In the Narrow Sea There was a short scene with Samwell (John Bradley), who’s being seasick whilst travelling to Oldtown with Gilly (Hannah Murray) and…
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SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)
Movies of the 1980s had a fascination with robots, almost to the point of obsession. It was the decade that brought us The Terminator, Blade Runner, RoboCop, and even the cake-wielding robotic butler from Rocky IV. While some explored the technophobic relationship between man and machine, Short Circuit, which turns 30 tomorrow, instead delivered a…
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UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT – Season Two
I was an instant fan of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt when it debuted last year. Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Netflix comedy was brimming with colour and energy, delivering streams of jokes every episode, and was the perfect vehicle for Ellie Kemper as the eponymous Kimmy—a naive young woman imprisoned in an underground bunker as part…
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THE AMERICANS, 4.8 – ‘The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears’
“The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears”, this week’s episode of The Americans, ends with its own sleight of hand, but begins with a farewell to Martha (Allison Wright), who boards a plane to Russia via Cuba. The opening is a great, mostly wordless sequence, as we follow Martha taking her last…
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LINE OF DUTY – Series Three
What exactly is BBC2’s police drama Line of Duty? A forensically detailed examination of corruption, stuffed full of pitch-perfect jargon-heavy dialogue, with a complex plot about a cover-up in the highest echelons? Or a genre series with the drama turned up to eleven, featuring whiplash twists, countless red herrings, irritating loose threads, and frankly unbelievable…
