A bunch of friends living in the same retirement home fill their time by investigating cold cases. Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ron (Pierce Brosnan), and Ibrahim (Ben Kinsley) are joined by new resident, Joyce (Celia Imrie), just before they are presented with a new, far-from-cold case, as the owner of the retirement home is found bludgeoned … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club (2025)
Very - very! - loosely based on real events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare tells of the creation of the Special Operations Executive, a 'black ops' group of expendables sent to carry out a crazy mission to hep the Allies win the Second World War. Crazy is perhaps the right word: to qualify for the … Continue reading The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Back in 2020, Eric Bana starred in a movie I somehow failed to review, called The Dry. Based on the best-selling novel by Jane Harper, it introduces us to Aaron Falk, a police investigator forced to deal with an old crime in his drought-stricken home town. Force of Nature is the second book and now movie following … Continue reading Force of Nature (2024)
Dune. Arrakis. Planet of the spice - the only substance that makes space travel possible. Home to giant sandworms, and the Freman natives subjugated by the Empire's quest for spice. Part one introduced us to various characters and factions, and then left the story very untold. Paul (Timothee Chalamet) and his mother, Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) … Continue reading Dune: Part 2 (2024)
Science is going wrong - and no one knows why. Is that why a series of top scientists commit suicide? One of those is Vera Ye, and her funeral brings together five friends from Oxford, now gone their separate ways in life. Scientists, teacher, multi-millionaire businessman; all will be central to the coming, impossible, dramas. … Continue reading 3 Body Problem (season 1)
Well here's something new for 2024, even though it's looking back at 2023! But as well as reading and watching movies, there's been an awful lot of really, really good tv this year. Like films, I've sucked totally at getting any reviews written, so I'm going to cheat catch up with a 'best of' kind … Continue reading 2023: A year in tv
A thousand years before a certain hobbit stumbled across a certain piece of jewellery, Middle Earth was already a land on the brink of turmoil. Although we begin in relative peace, the Commander of the Northern Armies, aka Galadriel (yes, that one!), is hunting for Sauron, lieutenant of the fallen enemy, Morgoth. Her search takes … Continue reading Rings of Power (season 1)
I've loved the Sandman stories since I first stumbled across them in the local library. I'm not the hugest graphic novels fan, but these are easily my favourite and more than that the whole concept just kind of blows me away. The Endless: a family of, more or less, anthropomorphic personifications of the Big Ideas such as … Continue reading The Sandman (season 1)
(Usual spoiler: talking about how season 3 starts is kind of a spoiler for how season 2 ends) Meet the Hargreaves: seven 'siblings' who were brought together as babies by an eccentric millionaire who decided their highly unusual births - none of their mothers having been pregnant the day before - signalled something special. And … Continue reading The Umbrella Academy (season 3)
In a universe controlled by dominant noble houses, a political power struggle is about to erupt on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. The emperor has decreed that House Harkonnen will no longer control the planet and the universe's only source of Spice, the substance required for interstellar travel and thus the most valuable … Continue reading Dune (2021)
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