‘Downton Abbey’ Series 4 Episode 3 review

So – rape as entertainment.  Well, it’s a debate to be had, isn’t it?

When ITV denied the press access to a preview of last night’s episode, we assumed it was for some trivial reason: a CGI backdrop of London that had yet to be painted in, while Edith bumped into Virginia Woolf in the foreground. That sort of thing.

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‘How I Met Your Mother’ Season 8 DVD review

Eight years ago, Ted Mosby sat his telegenic children down and began to tell them one long story.

During that eight years, Facebook and Twitter came into being. As did the iPhone, Breaking Bad and the entire country of South Sudan. Yes, whole new cultures, communications, and nations have been forged in the time it’s taken Ted Mosby to narrate just one story: How I Met Your Mother.

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‘White House Down’ movie review

In that curious “like-buses” way that Hollywood sometimes works, hot on the heels of this year’s Olympus Has Fallen comes another story about terrorists taking over the White House, and the poor, unfortunate hero who finds himself caught in the middle and having to save the day.

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