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If you haven’t seen Bill yet, go see it. If you have seen Bill, go see it again. You know you want to. Exploring the genre of speculative history with its tongue firmly lodged in cheek, the makers of Horrible Histories set out to give a possible (but probably not true) account of a period … >
One man’s journey toward some semblance of redemption ends in this final instalment of ITV’s The Trials of Jimmy Rose, and while it’s a conclusion, it ain’t happy by any means. Well, it wouldn’t be happy viewing, would it? Nor would we expect it to be: Jimmy (Ray Winstone), in his desperation to keep his … >
The Trials of Jimmy Rose is the kind of frustrating television that leaves me shouting at the people in it for making such terrible decisions. Jimmy (Ray Winstone) is frustratingly stubborn and, in spite of having had the living crap kicked out of him, seems to struggle mightily to learn anything from his experience. Somehow … >
I’m not generally the sort of person who will gravitate towards gangster films. There’s something I find generally distasteful about the prospect of glorifying or making glamourous the basically sociopathic, violent nature of gang cultures. So when I was invited to a screening of Legend, based on the lives of real-life twin brothers and London … >
Ray Winstone plays – in a career first – a gruff criminal in ITV’s The Trials of Jimmy Rose, tasked with readjusting to the world and his family after a long prison sentence. The show’s alternate title could probably be A Painfully Out-Of-The-Loop Older Gentleman Makes a Dog’s Breakfast of All The Things. Kingdom writer … >
The infuriatingly amateur investigators somehow manage to wrap up the mystery of Partners in Crime’s second three-part story, though how they managed to make it out alive is once again beyond me. Okay, so Veronica the housekeeper caught Tuppence in the act pretending to be catering staff at the ball, but apparently Tuppence has forgotten … >
With more than five decades of history under its belt, Doctor Who is quite a unique piece of television indeed. Its nature is in many ways very much the same as it was when William Hartnell first graced our screens back in 1963, and yet in many other ways, it is a show in continuing … >
It’s the thrilling conclusion of Yonderland’s second season, and it’s jolly thrilling indeed. Two estranged sisters finally face off, and nothing will ever be the same again. *insert thrilling musical cue here* Dun dun dunnn!!! But seriously, while Imperatrix is busily transferring her life force into a fearsome new creature to do her evil bidding, … >
The tensions mount in the fifth instalment of Partners in Crime, as our plucky mister and missus find themselves descending further into a dangerous investigation indeed. Oh dear. If Thomas and Tuppence Beresford really were Britain’s last hope, I despair for us all. The thing is, there’s no reason a bumbling amateur sleuth story is … >
The list of heroic tasks Debbie must contend with is seemingly never-ending, and this week in Yonderland, she’s tasked with saving the last of the delicious Fahl. Hunted to near extinction for being really, properly moreish, the Fahl now lives in privileged comfort in a village enclosure, but Debbie discovers another Fahl hiding in the … >