‘Sinbad’: Episode 5 review
The latest instalment of Sinbad is somewhat of a conundrum. Not a great deal happens, but it manages to fill its screen time without too much trouble.
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The latest instalment of Sinbad is somewhat of a conundrum. Not a great deal happens, but it manages to fill its screen time without too much trouble.
A Touch of Cloth is an endless stream of great and (deliberately) bad jokes, puns, sight gags and pratfalls, all played in the best, strictly deadpan traditions of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.
Billed as “a high concept thriller for fans of Inception and The Adjustment Bureau”, Sleepwalkers is the debut novel from Being Human writer Tom Grieves.
BBC Two have got something incredible on their hands, again, and they should have faith in the viewers to enjoy a programme so full of character, life and humour.
Although the finale feels hurried, it does not spoil what is without doubt the best episode of Sinbad yet.
Making The Bill look like In The Night Garden, Jed Mercurio has created one of the finest and most compelling police dramas of recent years. But it’s due to a uniformly strong cast, whose strengths have shown as the series has continued, that his gut-punch plotting and ‘spit & shit’ view of policing have succeeded. … >
Great Riker’s beard! The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation has finally made it to Blu-Ray, looking more impressive than a Borg conga line.
Though this somewhat slight film doesn’t quite hold up when compared to the Pixar classics, as a stand-alone venture Brave pretty much hits the mark.
Historical accuracy is not a term that was likely ever intended to be associated with Sinbad, and if it was not clear enough already, the latest episode well and truly cements it.
After battling criminal masterminds, horrible hounds, and even the giant rat of Sumatra, what’s left for Sherlock Holmes to face? How about a ‘sharktopus’?