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I’m always intrigued when a biopic gets dragged up of someone who’s been alive during my lifetime who I’ve GENUINELY NEVER HEARD OF – not that my life’s particularly tuned towards the fashion world. No idea if Ewen MacGregor’s performance/likeness was accurate or not, but it certainly was committed and compelling, albeit seemingly purposefully not…
8 part docu-series about spy techniques through recent history, backed with loads of stock footage and factual explanations/recountings of events. I came away feeling like they repeated themselves a bit, although being one of those shows I’d pop on after Liz had gone to bed that recollection’s coloured by my propensity for falling asleep and…
It’s a well-known fact among opinionated old arseholes like me that The Simpsons isn’t as good as it used to be. It had its “glory period” from series 4 to 10, and it’s gone downhill ever since. Ask anyone who tells you that what the last Simpsons episode they saw was and you’ll likely get…
In summary, “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!”. Seemingly a Victorian Superhero piece, transforming into unintelligible scifi bollards at the last minute. A review I read prior to getting started described it as “a mess”, and that’s certainly how it ended – though there was enough in it to keep us going back for more. Very…
I finished it! I’ve been watching this fucking show since about 2010. So, this was a gripping exercise in Stockholm Syndrome… Amazing series though – SUCH a change from where it all started, and yet a plausible plot arc. The final few episodes really ramped up the bleakness but it was a superb story, superbly…
Can we just reflect for a moment that this was described as “financial drama”? Yep, that’s a thing now apparently. Set in London but footed by Sky Atlantic Italy, it did a GREAT job of reminding us how fundamentally awesome Italian men are. As well as a compelling story, it ALSO had some ludicrous interior…
So many column inches of reviews on this already. GREAT story, and so compellingly put together. Not only a torturous journey through the mundane, but it’s foolish not to note that it was Kate Winslet utterly refusing the glamour bit. Really compelling story with loads of twists, some which went nowhere. I love that storytelling’s…
This was a lot. I spent a good lot of time being distracted by the fact that the story was written by one of the Mitford Sisters, which had me trying to remember the details of (that idiot) Andrew Collings’s extended talk about The Mitford Sisters that I heard some time about 10ish years ago….
One of the more successful late-night documentary selections I’ve made (and managed to stay awake through this one!) – South African journalist Rian Malan tracks down the daughters of Solomon Linda to see if they’re aware that their father’s song (Mbube – an obvious and documented progenitor of The Lion Sleeps Tonight) is being used…
Bit of surrealist Australian nonsense here – I think I’d seen a few Aunty Donna videos on Youtube, so their being commissioned for a Netflix series seemed worth a punt. It’s intriguing to ponder if I’d seen this 20 years ago whether I’d be quoting it in the same way we do with Tripod, Python,…