Marco Polo TV Review: The story is set in 13th Century Mongolia. After three years crossing seas, deserts and the Silk Road, a young Marco Polo (Lorenzo Richelmy) finds himself a prisoner of the great Kublai Khan (Benedict Wong). Here he is soon immersed in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry. Where […]
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The Water Diviner Movie Review: The Water Diviner, is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Australian farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) travels to Turkey in 1919 to discover the fate of his three sons, who are missing in action. Initially, military bureaucracy hinders his search […]
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Legends of the Fall Movie Review: US Cavalry officer Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) takes early retirement after despairing of the Government’s treatment of the Western Tribes. In the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies he builds a ranch where he brings up his three sons. When his youngest son Samuel (Henry Thomas) returns from […]
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A Christmas Carol Movie Review: It’s Christmas Eve and 7 years before, Ebenezer Scrooge (Patrick Stewart) buries his long-time friend and business partner, Jacob Marley. Since then Scrooge is always in a bad mood. His loyal, but meek clerk, Bob Cratchit (Richard E. Grant), is the target of Scrooge’s cruelty and bitterness. Scrooge’ s nephew, […]
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The Bletchley Circle TV Review: A group of former World War II codebreakers attempt to make use of their skills in their post-war lives. In the first series we meet the ladies of Bletchley Park seven years after the end of WWII. When Susan (Anna Maxwell Martin) reads about a serial killer who has been […]
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Hope and Glory Movie Review: Through the eyes of a young boy, the “fireworks” provided by the Blitz every night are as exciting as they are terrifying. However, his family do not see things in quite the same way. As the bombs continue to drop, their will to survive brings them closer together. Also the […]
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Foyle’s War TV Review: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) longs to join the war effort. But he is left frustrated when his application for transfer doesn’t go through. To his surprise however, he finds the turmoil of conflict means his skills are in demand on the home front. As WW2 rages over Europe, […]
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The last of his line, Jack, Baron Warnefleet, flees London after nearly being compromised into marrying a dreadful female. Turning his back on marriage, he rides home to the estate he has not seen for years. Outside his gate, however, Jack rescues a lady from an unmanageable horse. But Lady Clarice Altwood is no meek […]
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English mapmaker, Reginald Anson, manages to offend an entire Welsh town when he rules that their prized landmark is not a mountain but a hill. Anson is soon to find, however, that the locals will stop at nothing to defend their honour. Young barmaid Betty tries to seduce Anson and thus convince him to change […]
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Atomic Blonde Movie Review: Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is MI6’s most lethal assassin and the crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. When she has to go on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spycraft, sensuality and savagery she has to stay alive in the ticking time […]
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