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They'll Love It In Pomona
25.08.2025
MOVIEDROME: WELCOME TO THE CULT "Television - the drug of the nation - breeding ignorance and feeding radiation." So claimed Michael Frant...
BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES It seems odd to reference the Liverpool Football Club legend Bill Shankly while reviewing a music documentary b...
08.08.2025
THE NAKED GUN We all know Liam Neeson can do comedy. We've seen him do it before in small doses. The Northern Irish actor had the best momen...
02.08.2025
MIX TAPE For the pre-Spotify generations, the mix tape is an iconic symbol of the analogue age. A cassette lovingly compiled by music fans, ...
30.07.2025
UNFORGIVABLE When Jimmy McGovern finally gives up writing for film and television, he should do so with immense pride. No British televis...
29.07.2025
FRIENDSHIP If you know Tim Robinson from his work on Netflix, you'll know he specialises in the kind of comedy that thrives in cringeworthy ...
STICK, S1 "Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated," Arnold Palmer once mused. "It satisfies the soul and frustrates the int...
HAPPY GILMORE 2 Twenty nine years after he first appeared in Dennis Dugan's original film, Adam Sandler's pro golfer Happy Gilmore is back...
14.07.2025
THE BEAR, S4 As the phrase goes: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. But which character in Season Four of Disney+ and Hu...
13.07.2025
LIVE AID AT 40: WHEN ROCK N'ROLL TOOK ON THE WORLD Looking back on it now, the mid 1980s really do feel like innocent times. In the UK, th...
02.07.2025
SQUID GAME S2 When 'Squid Game' became an international phenomenon with its inaugural season on Netflix in September 2021, it was such a ra...
01.07.2025
GOODRICH Sometimes a film seems to have all the right elements but still it comes up short. Hallie Myers-Shyler's 'Goodrich' boasts Michael ...
30.06.2025
THE BOMBING OF PAN AM 123 There's always a danger when two films or dramas dealing with the same historical event are released that the o...
27.06.2025
BIG MAN Leave aside the online storm over Stormzy's wig . 'Big Man' is the first film to be made by the rapper's Merky Films production co...
26.06.2025
28 YEARS LATER There are great movie directors and then the others. Some are jobbing hacks who thrash out any old film to placate audiences ...
23.06.2025
THE GOLD, S2 Series Two of Neil Forsyth's 'The Gold' isn't really about gold. As Jessie J would say, it's " all about the money ." Picking...
16.06.2025
THE LAST OF US, S2 It's hard to review Season Two of 'The Last of Us' without giving away plot spoilers. So if you don't want to know major ...
09.06.2025
HACKS, S4 If you're an avid reader of this blog (and there are a few of you), you'll know I have been shouting for some time about the sho...
08.06.2025
NONNAS They tend not to release films like 'Nonnas' in cinemas anymore. In the 1990s and early 2000s you still used to get plenty of light c...
06.06.2025
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING There's an episode of 'The IT Crowd' where Chris O'Dowd's Roy and Richard Ayoade's Moss go to t...
05.06.2025
BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER There's been a bit of a trend of late of rock n'roll elder statesmen taking to the theatre to reflect on their li...
02.06.2025
THE STUDIO, Season 1 Be careful what you wish for. That appears to be the message behind Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregor...
26.05.2025
THE ASSEMBLY Who would have predicted an interview show fronted by neurodivergent and learning disabled people would turn out to be one of t...
24.05.2025
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME We're at that stage where people either love Wes Anderson films or are really irritated by them. Few contemporary dire...
08.05.2025
THE FOUR SEASONS Good observational comedies on the big or small screen are a precious commodity. Far too often we are subjected to comedi...
28.04.2025
DOPE THIEF (Apple TV+) If you're not watching 'Dope Thief,' why the hell not? Yes, it's on Apple TV+ but such is the quality of the acting, ...
27.04.2025
From ' Public Enemy ' to ' The Irishman ,' ' The Sopranos ' to ' This City Is Ours ,' it seems we can't get enough of tales about gangsters ...
20.04.2025
In Series One of 'KIN,' everybody was talking about Jamie. In Series One of the Liverpool crime drama 'This City Is Ours,' everybody is... ...
19.04.2025
REUNION (BBC1) ' Shockproof ,'' Straight Time ,' ' Mona Lisa ,' ' The Limey ,' ' Carlito's Way ,' ' King of New York ' and ' The Shawshank R...
29.03.2025
LOL: L AST ONE LAUGHING UK We've been here before . Ten comedians - five men and five women - are cooped up in a ' Big Brother ' style set f...
27.03.2025
BLUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY If you were to ask Irish people in which field the island punches above its weight, a lot of people would...
23.03.2025
TOXIC TOWN (Netflix) In normal times, 'Toxic Town' would have caused the kind of stir in Britain that ITV's 'Mr Bates versus The Post Offic...
18.03.2025
ADOLESCENCE (Netflix) It takes a certain kind of alchemy to deliver a great TV drama or film. And it's not that hard to figure out what it i...
17.03.2025
SMALL TOWN, BIG STORY (Sky Atlantic) On paper, it looks great. Take a star from ' Mad Men ,' another from ' The Wire ' and put them in an ...
16.03.2025
HACKS, Season 3 (Sky & NowTV) It's been a long wait - nine months to be precise since it aired in the US. However Season 3 of the Emmy and...
04.03.2025
In the end, 2025's Oscars belonged to independent cinema and Sean Baker. A cult director with a taste for telling stories about people on t...
02.03.2025
2025's awards season will be remembered for being an unusually close race. Unlike the previous two years' contests which saw 'Everything, E...
01.03.2025
ANORA (Sean Baker) As we soak up the hype around this year's crop of Oscar nominees this weekend, one question hangs in the air. Could a $6 ...
25.02.2025
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (James Mangold) When you look back on the career so far of director James Mangold, you kind of know what to expect from...
17.02.2025
BOYZONE: NO MATTER WHAT It's an age old story - pop impresarios working boy or girl bands to the bone and squeezing every drop of cash fro...