‘Parade’s End’: Episode 3 review
Watching Parade’s End is like getting stuck into a lovely big slice of Victoria Sponge. If only life were all tea and cake for Christopher Tietjens…
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Watching Parade’s End is like getting stuck into a lovely big slice of Victoria Sponge. If only life were all tea and cake for Christopher Tietjens…
While Catching Bullets is a history of James Bond on screen, it is far from another dry reference tome or coffee table book, but rather is a memoir of the films and the times they were produced in.
Such a resolutely downbeat conclusion is admirable, but the poor dialogue renders it wholly unsatisfying.
The first episode drifts by in an engaging mixture of mystery and moodiness, but it falters to an end rather than building to a climax.
With a title so gleefully ambitious that it really should end in an exclamation mark, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship delivers exactly what it promises.
The concluding conversation between Sinbad and Cook back on the Providence which is undoubtedly the best two minutes of this series so far.
Australian director Carlo Ledesma’s pseudo-documentary sleeper hit The Tunnel at least offers something slightly different to most of its ilk.
Let’s be brutally honest for a moment. The Daleks may have been the most terrifying monsters on telly once upon a time – back in the 1960s or 1970s, say – but since Doctor Who was revived in 2005, they’ve mostly been… well, a bit rubbish. 2005’s ‘Dalek’, in which Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper … >
Even in an HD world, TV is rarely as beautiful as the second episode of Parade’s End.
It’s asking moral questions of its audience that makes Good Cop worthy of a place amid the crowded market of crime dramas.