The Danish Girl may have been slightly more successful had it been titled “The Wife of Lili.” It is a strange thought but for a film that is primarily about one of the first famous transgender pioneers, most of the more … Continue reading The Danish Girl (2016) Review
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! With each new season and episode of New Girl I keep wondering whether the creators … Continue reading New Girl (Season 4) TV Review
Bob’s Burgers is offering something that both The Simpsons and Family Guy aren’t. There is something about Bob’s Burgers that puts it ahead of their much bigger, more successful rivals but already, three seasons in, the quality of each episode and … Continue reading Bob’s Burgers (Season 3) TV Review
A great performance does not automatically mean a great movie. Jennifer Aniston is great in Cake. She successfully portrays a woman with chronic back pain who has lost her life before her accident, is slowly self-destructing, both mentally and with the … Continue reading Cake (2014) Review
The Sherlock special was better suited to a mid-season episode rather than the only “special” we are going to get in the last two years. There could well have been something very special in this episode but when you boil it … Continue reading Sherlock: The Abominable Bride TV Review
It is amazing how Room manages to tell a story involving some very nasty, mature and disturbing content without ever feeling too graphic. The film doesn’t feel the need to throw all the more gruesome aspects of the tale in your … Continue reading Room (2016) Review
Occasionally there will be a film which I don’t understand. That lack of understanding could be the story, the characters, the idea or even the fuss behind the whole movie. In the case of Birdman, it was pretty much the whole … Continue reading Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Review
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! Peep Show is a completely underrated sitcom. Whenever British channels make lists of “Greatest Ever Sitcom” … Continue reading Peep Show (Season 9) TV Review
Joy is the movie in which Jennifer Lawrence shows the world how good an actress she is. Not that she hasn’t already proved that: She held a whole franchise together successfully in The Hunger Games series and of course won the … Continue reading Joy (2016) Review
The biggest compliment I can give Creed is that it is a worthy successor to the Rocky crown. The worst thing Creed could have been was a Rocky movie with a young boxer thrown in as a background story. Luckily, Creed … Continue reading Creed (2016) Review
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