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Noted film auteur Pedro Almodóvar returns to cinemas with a haunting, beautiful, riveting and character-driven work starring his long time muse Penélope Cruz in Parallel Mothers and this is an exceptional piece of original cinema that will have you transfixed on the images that are played before your eyes. Two single women (Penélope Cruz, Milena […]

Movie Reviews

‘Death on the Nile’ – Review

February 9, 2022 Samuel Hames

The great Sir Kenneth Branagh is ready to return to the world of Agatha Christie and once again steps into the perfectly tailored suit and styled moustache of the great detective himself, Hercule Poirot, in a brand new adaptation of Christie’s famed work Death on the Nile. And Branagh crafts a stylish, sexy and sinister […]

Television Recaps

‘Pam & Tommy’ – ‘The Master Beta’ – Review

February 9, 2022 Samuel Hames

A plan is in motion and the internet is now buzzing with the growing viral sensation of the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee sex tape and everything is about to change in Pam & Tommy. Roll on 1996 and Hollywood’s wildest couple Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) are over the moon with the […]

Television Recaps

‘Reacher’ – ‘Spoonful’ – Review

February 7, 2022 Samuel Hames

It’s starting to get brutal in Amazon Prime’s Reacher and the body count is rising. Ex-military cop Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) has found himself in the middle of it and he has a grudge to bear. But vengeance can wait for a minute as he grounds himself in the case and seeks answers in Episode […]

Movie Reviews

‘Moonfall’ – Review

February 6, 2022 Samuel Hames

When it comes to disaster movies there is one director who reigns supreme, Roland Emmerich, and now he supplies his unique mixture of blockbuster mayhem to Moonfall and this is pure bat-shit crazy fun! A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life […]

Television Recaps

‘Reacher’ – ‘First Dance’ – Review

February 6, 2022 Samuel Hames

Lee Child’s lone-wolf hero Jack Reacher has rolled into town and it’s clear after episode one, ‘Welcome to Margrave‘, that Amazon Prime’s exciting new action series, Reacher packs one hell of punch. We know roll into Episode Two, ‘First Dance’ and a seriously pissed off Reacher is looking for answers and damn anyone who gets […]

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