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Despite coming from the collective pens of original Perrin creator David Nobbs and Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye, this remake of the 70s classic fails to hit the surrealist highs of its predecessor. Clunes is more than adept at portraying Perrin, a man driven to the brink of a mid-life crisis by the mundanity of his existence, but lacks the manic tendencies of Leonard Rossiter, and too often the show feels like a dramatised version of Grumpy Old Men rather than an insight into the escalating insanity of an “everyday man”. Read the rest of this entry »
Kicking off proceedings with the discovery of a dead eight-year-old girl could be seen as a cheap trick to keep us watching, but The Children is far from your average whodunit. With a tag line ‘When adults play, the children suffer’, the painful truth of the statement becomes evident as we follow the devastating emotional and physical damage done to two children, Emily and Jack – played brilliantly by Sinead Michael (pictured) and Freddie Boath – as their parents move on from their messy divorces and into each others’ beds. Read the rest of this entry »
Not to be confused with the Spielberg mini-series of the same name, Taken sees ex-CIA black-ops agent Bryan (Liam Neeson) calling on all his special forces training to recover his teenage daughter after she’s kidnapped in Paris by an Albanian prostitution racket. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re the type who likes to elevate yourself from the masses with your highfalutin taste in films, it’s safe to say Step Up 2 The Streets won’t be top of your must-see list. OK, so the bottom line is that it’s a predictable cheese-fest — but there’s no law against enjoying a few guilty pleasures now and again. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve never been a big fan of horror, slapstick or any attempts at blending the two, so Paul Andrew Williams had his work cut out if he was going to convince me I’d been missing out all these years. The London to Brighton writer-director has returned to gangland for his second movie outing, replacing grimness with gore in The Cottage. Read the rest of this entry »
