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She is portrayed as a woman locked in a house, unable to make her own decisions, travel freely, or calm the fire from the tabloids outside. And often, she has no one (save fans) to protect her. I typed that opening a few weeks ago after watching The New York Times Presents Framing Britney Spears. […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss and review the hit Disney+ show WandaVision P
Finales are notoriously difficult to execute successfully when a show is just a simple procedural drama or episodic sitcom. That degree of difficulty grows exponentially when the series has a rabid fan base and has presented a quasi-puzzle box tale throughout its run (and if the show is all of that, plus years of waiting […]
The F1rst Team is the latest sitcom made by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the mind behind The Inbetweeners and White Gold. They have moved on from suburban teenagers and 1980s Essex to a struggling Premier League team. The F1rst Team focuses on three young players at the club. There is Mattie Sullivan (Jake Short), a new signing from the […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the current state of physical and digital media.
Werewolves movies are a rare breed, even in the horror genre. One of the more recent werewolf movies was the 2015 flick Howl. Joe (Ed Speleers) is a train conductor who’s forced to work on a late-night train to Eastborough. Before the train reaches the final station, it gets stopped in the woods. Isolated and with […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the popular sitcom series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
What a tour de force performance from Elizabeth Olsen in “Previously On,” the WandaVision that attempts to fill in all the gaps (and boy, were there a ton of gaps) in Wanda’s MCU history. But Wanda wasn’t the only character getting some backstory in the penultimate episode of the series. We also learned a bit […]
For Love or Money was a movie that marketed itself as ‘An Unromantic Comedy’ as it attempts to subvert the rom-com subgenre. Mark (Robert Kazinsky) is a man who describes himself as a lobotomised hamster when it comes to women. At the age of 30, he is about to sell his start-up company for £20 million. […]
It’s a Sin, the sensational limited series from Russell T. Davies (the acclaimed showrunner behind the original Queer as Folk and the first four seasons of the modern Doctor Who, among others), chronicles a decade in the lives of several friends (most of whom are gay men – although there is one straight woman in […]