‘Ripper Street’ Series 2 Episode 3: ‘Become Man’ review
For a series named after one of history’s most notorious misogynists, Ripper Street rarely gives us the female perspective.
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For a series named after one of history’s most notorious misogynists, Ripper Street rarely gives us the female perspective.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week with ‘Become Man’ and a prominent member of the newly formed London County Council is skillfully abducted from his table at Whitechapel’s Blewett’s Theatre of Varieties.
Can we all take a moment, please? Everybody else is crying right?
Though a bit of a slow burn, by the time we reached its closing moments ‘Am I Not Monstrous?’ had seriously proved its worth, tying up the week’s story with one of the most shocking and heartbreaking endings of the series as whole.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week and a nameless and seemingly vagrant young woman is found murdered in a stairwell at Whitechapel’s The London Hospital.
In the opening moments of ‘Pure As The Driven’, a policeman is hurled through the first floor window of an East London building and impaled on the iron railings below, and – BAM! – just like that we’re back in the grimy, gritty, glorious action of BBC One’s Victorian crime drama Ripper Street. Meaning, in other words, that it’s time to reach for the smelling salts.
BBC One’s period crime drama Ripper Street returns for a second series this autumn.
Bates Motel, the chilling modern day take on Hitchcock’s classic thriller Psycho, premieres in the UK next week.
In 1960 a film by the name of Psycho was released and, worldwide, monocles collectively dropped into cups of Earl Grey.
Fifty-three years on, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal thriller has had a glossy TV makeover; at once shunted into the modern day and sent back in time, to when cinema’s most famous psychopath Norman Bates was just a shy 17-year-old with an overbearing mother.
With a crash, a bang, and all the wallop of a gigantic sea monster crushing a skyscraper comes Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro’s barmy, charming, cheesy and always entertaining action blockbuster. Time to forget your superheroes, folks. This summer it’s all about massive robots.
300 director Zack Snyder’s take on the Superman origin story is an action-packed, visually stunning spectacle, complete with picture perfect cast and a brilliantly rousing score by Hans Zimmer. But, in sacrificing character for the sake of action, Man of Steel fails to plumb the depths. Though you may marvel at the display, there’s little here to truly resonate.