Whitechapel TV Review: The streets of London’s East End are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. For fast-tracked, media savvy DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) it’s his first big murder case; for front-line, hard-bitten DS Miles (Phil Davis), he’s now saddled with a boss who […]
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Paddington Movie Review: Paddington is a polite young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British. He travels to London in search of a home but ends up alone at Paddington Station. He begins to realise that city life is not all he imagines until he meets the kind Brown family (Hugh Bonneville, Sally […]
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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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Bleak House TV Review: This mini tv series is an adaptation of Charles Dickens‘ novel of the same name. The story closely follows the characters in the infamous court case of Jarndyce versus Jarndyce that relies heavily on the production of an up-to-date will in order to settle the inheritance. Two young cousins (Patrick Kennedy, […]
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Movie Review: After losing all their money to London crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) in a card game, twentysomething friends Eddy (Nick Moran), Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher) and Bacon (Jason Statham) decide to steal from their drug-dealing neighbour, Dog. So using guns stolen from burglars in […]
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North Yorkshire, 1992. When government cutbacks threaten a century-old Yorkshire mine, the brass band, consisting of the miners and their families, struggles to keep it together in the face of economic repression and emotional turmoil. Danny leads this band and tries to prepare them for a national competition, despite the fact that they are faced […]
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Ngoc Minh Quan is a former Vietnam War special operations forces soldier and runs a Chinese restaurant in London. When his teenage daughter Fan dies in a clothing store bombing, he seeks revenge. A group calling itself the “Authentic IRA” claims the bombing. Failing to get the names of the bombers from Scotland Yard, Quan next […]
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Detective Inspector John River sees his police partner, Jackie, die in front of him from a drive by shooting. Also he has visions which haunt him and at times get in the way of doing his work. However he does try to carry on with his work while his superior, Chief Inspector Chrissie Reid, grows […]
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Cockney wideboy Derek Trotter dreams of better things for himself while sharing a cramped council flat in the nicely named Peckham tower block Nelson Mandela House with his unworldly brother Rodney and his sweet but doddery old granddad. Where to watch – Click here -> Amazon 9/10 Only Fools and Horses is brilliant classic […]
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Gary and Tony are two beer guzzling flatmates in London revelling in a second childhood, hours of TV, and mindless talks about women, the kind of behaviour that puts their relationships in jeopardy with Dorothy (Gary’s girlfriend) and Deborah (an attractive blonde in the flat above). Gary manages an office selling burglar alarms. His staff […]
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