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Brooklyn
Sensitively adapted by Nick Hornby from Colm Tóibín’s beloved novel, Brooklyn is the story of Eilis (the mesmerising Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant who moves from small town Enniscorthy, Ireland, to the new horizons of Brooklyn, NYC. It is…
Norskov
Ah, the Danes! Just when you think your late night TV shows are all starting to look and end the same way, along comes another piece of Nordic noir to brighten, well, err, darken your day.
Norskov takes elements from…
Youth by Paolo Sorrentino
In Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, Michael Caine plays Fred Ballinger, a retired composer holidaying at a mountain resort in the Swiss Alps. He is joined by his daughter, Lena (the inimitable Rachel Weisz), who doubles as his personal assistant and…
The Bridge: Season 3
As with the last two seasons of this exemplary Swedish/Danish co-production, this third season of The Bridge opens with a puzzle in the form of a murder. This time, Helle Anker, the founder of the first gender-neutral kindergarten in Copenhagen…
War And Peace: Season 1
Tolstoy’s War and Peace is the classic of classics. Andrew Davies is perhaps the man most synonymous with adapting classics for the BBC. Davies brought us the yardstick by which every other Sunday night period drama will be forever judged…
The Young Montalbano: Volume 2
It has been over three years since the first season of this brilliant Italian crime drama was made available, but the wait has been worth it. This new series was supervised by the writer of the original books, Andrea Camilleri…
Utopia: Season 2
If you watched the first season of Utopia, you probably have high expectations for the second. If you haven’t seen the show before, but are familiar with the uncannily accurate and hilarious 90s news-parody Frontline, you’ll have some…
The Legacy: Season 2
If you’ve not yet watched the first season of The Legacy, and I thoroughly recommend that you do, I would suggest you turn away now as there are spoilers coming.
The legacy that gives this family drama its title…
House of Cards: Season 3
House of Cards Season 3 begins not at Episode 1 but at Chapter 27. It has become apparent that House of Cards is not a show structured season by season, but rather as a grand morality play, and we are…
That Sugar Film
Australian actor Damon Gameau’s documentary opens with the sweetest montage I’ve ever seen. Colourful lollies, bright bottles of soft-drink, the rainbow displays that line our supermarket shelves. This movie is all about sugar, and with Depeche Mode’s ‘Just Can’t Get…
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