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Skyfall was the film that marked the Bond film franchise’s 50th Anniversary. The result was one of the best Bond films ever and the most financially successful. A mission in Istanbul goes wrong. A terrorist has escaped with a hard drive containing a list of all undercover NATO agents and Bond has been presumably killed in action. Three months […]
Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix miniseries, has a number of the quirks that were present in his previous outings (that would be The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, for those not wholly familiar with his recent oeuvre). Now, as was the case with the other series, some of them […]
Following on from the success of Casino Royale (2006), EON Productions rushed through the follow-up, Quantum of Solace. Quantum of Solace picks up where Casino Royale left off, with Bond capturing Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) and taking him to be questioned by M. Mr. White was able to escape because his organisation has people everywhere. Bond must investigate this mysterious organisation […]
Following on from the big sci-fi spectacle that was Die Another Day, Casino Royale (2006) was proof the franchise has the ability to reinvent itself. The franchise went from one of the worst films to one of the best. James Bond has been promoted to a Double-0. On his first mission Bond is tasked with capturing a bombmaker […]
Vigil has reached its conclusion after six episodes with a sadly underwhelming finale. DCI Silva has discovered who the Russian mole on HMS Vigil is. Unfortunately, he got to her first and locked her in a torpedo tube. The situation for HMS Vigil is dire with it flooding with water and Russian vessels in the area. On land, DS Longacre […]
In a global crisis called “The Emergency,” who are you going to call? No, not the Ghostbusters, but instead a group of misfit orphans who form a team that may just be intuitive enough to stop a worldwide panic. That’s the basic premise of the TV adaptation of “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” (Season 1) which […]
You’d be hard pressed to find a show more open and frank about sexuality than Netflix’s excellent high school drama Sex Education. And its third season offered up more of the same: serious conversations about teenage sexuality (where the teenagers are all portrayed by twentysomethings, but the intent stands), family, friendship, love, and whether or […]
Die Another Day was the 20th Bond film that came out on the film franchise’s 40th anniversary. It aimed to be one of the biggest spectacles that the franchise has ever produced. James Bond has been captured during a mission in North Korea. He gets traded 14 months later because MI6 believed he broke under torture. He has been […]
Aretha Franklin is the latest beloved musical to receive the biopic treatment. It’s a film following on a tread that Walk the Line and Bohemian Rhapsody has started. Respect follows the life of Aretha Franklin (Skye Dakota Turner/Jennifer Hudson) from the age of 10 to the release of her live album of Amazing Grace in 1972. During this 20-year period Franklin’s musical […]
The World is Not Enough was a film was that aimed to give the Bond franchise a grounded story and be a character-focused film after the action-packed Tomorrow Never Dies. MI6 has been attacked, a close friend of M has been killed and Bond has been injured. The suspect is Victor “Renard” Zokas (Robert Carlyle), a […]