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Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Friday, 27 February 2015

The Babadook - a horror gem from Australia

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Life is not a bowl of cherries for Amelia (Essie Davis from "The Slap" and "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries"). Apart...
Monday, 1 September 2014

"The Silkworm" by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling) 2014

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"The Cuckoo's Calling" was a ripper detective yarn. Beautifully structured, atmospheric London descriptions and wonderfully co...
Friday, 25 July 2014

"The Mimic" Series 2, Channel 4

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Surprisingly we get a second series of this bittersweet little show. I thought six episodes pretty much covered Martin and his world but wri...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014

"Masters of Sex" Season 2, Showtime

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It is reassuring to see that this show is just as engrossing as the first season. Complex 'grey' characters (e.g. the selfish, hardl...
Monday, 7 July 2014

C.J. Box "Stone Cold" A good Winter read for cityslickers

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This is the 14th Joe Pickett novel. No 15, "Shots Fired" comes out in July, 2014. This is check-your-brains- in-at-the-Library-...
Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Stephen King "Mr Mercedes" His first crime/detective novel?

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Stephen King has written three very different novels in the past 18 months - the nostalgic "Joyland", "The Shining" sequ...
Monday, 28 April 2014

"Penny Dreadful" TV review, Season 1, Pilot, Episode 1, Showtime/Sky Not cheap, not dreadful, great gothic fun

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Victorian England seems to be in fashion. This lush production promises lots of scares, gore (the first confrontation with the nest of vampi...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

"Banshee" Season 2 finale, "Bullets and Tears", Episode 10, Cinemax

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By the first 10 minutes, all the boxes have been ticked. Nasty murder (check). Sex scene (check). Drag act/fight scene (check). This show r...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

"Banshee" Season 2, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Cinemax

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Episode 7: A fairly pedestrian affair. The nubile Rebecca (Lili Simmons) didn't have much to do this week, apart from parade around in ...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

"The After" Amazon Studios TV pilot, review

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A disparate group of characters (French would-be actress, young Hispanic policewoman, Irish yobbo, dodgy lawyer, Revelations-quoting buxom b...
Sunday, 9 February 2014

"Banshee" Season 2, Episode 5, "The Truth About Unicorns", Cinemax, review

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What's this? "Banshee" goes gooey? Arty editing, slow mo/shampoo commercial, cavorting toward the wisteria-entwined verandah o...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

"Fleming; The Man Who Would Be Bond" BBC America, 4 part miniseries, review

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Well, the title says it all. This is enjoyable codswallop. Much like the films. The fun is to try and spot the links with the movies/novels ...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

"Banshee Origins" Cinemax, web series, prequel 2014, review

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Web series "Banshee Origins" is required viewing for fans.  Economically told, well acted one scene pieces. No sex (tiny bit in ...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

"The Musketeers" Episode 1 BBC review

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Fine production values, atmospheric wintry locales, an appealing cast and just the right balance of drama with tongue-in-cheek. I think ...
Monday, 13 January 2014

Melbourne Midsumma Festival 2014 January 12

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My wife and I are in our late 50's. Each year we make a trip to the CBD for the opening day of the Midsumma Festival (Celebrating Queer ...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

"The Wrong Mans" BBC2 TV Series 1 "Running Mans" final...Series 2

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Looks like there is going to be a second series. Why else have the bomb strapped to the car? Hope not, though. The boys went out on a high, ...
Friday, 23 August 2013

"Time After Time" (1979 film) When H.G. Wells Meets Jack the Ripper

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Don't you love 'time travel' movies? What about the meeting of two famous or fictional characters? Take Nicholas Meyer's ...
Friday, 17 May 2013

Why are movies so damn L-O-N-G these days?

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Is it to sell more pop corn and crap? It is rare for a Hollywood movie to be under 100 minutes, usually around 2 hours, even comedies. Take...