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This Way Up – Season 1, Episode 1 Review

August 11, 2019May 12, 2022Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

This Way Up is a new comedy created by Irish comedian Aisling Bea and it has been heavily promoted by Channel 4 as a part of their Summer of Comedy. Aine (Bea) is a young woman who has spent time at a rehab facility after succumbing to a nervous breakdown. Four months after leaving the facility she’s […]

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Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw Review

August 8, 2019May 13, 2022Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

Once upon a time, there was a simple crime/action film set in the world of illegal street racing. This film ended up becoming a massive franchise. Now it has its first spin-off led by its popular stars, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham. After an MI6 mission in London to obtain a virus known as Snowflake […]

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Catch-22 – Episode 6 Review

August 8, 2019May 13, 2022Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

Catch-22 closes with its sixth episode, building up to its emotional climax for Yossarian. After parachuting out of a plane at the end of the last episode Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) arrives at an Italian villa bleeding from his testicles. He gets patched up and has a moment of bliss with an Italian family but it has to end […]

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The Mule Review

August 5, 2019May 13, 2022Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

The Mule is loosely based on a unique true story about an elderly man who became a successful drug runner in the United States. It was a story that was able to convince Clint Eastwood to return to acting as well as directing. Earl Stone (Eastwood) was a florist who has hit hard times in 2012. […]

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Catch-22 – Episode 5 Review

August 5, 2019September 12, 2021Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

The fifth episode of Catch-22 is the shortest and darkest episode in the season so far. After the mission that led to Nately’s (Austin Stowell) death, Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) and Korn (Kevin J. O’Conner) punish Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) by promoting him and giving him a medal for bravery. Yossarian goes AWOL to find Nately’s whore and tell […]

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Another Life Season One (Spoiler-Free) Review

August 4, 2019August 4, 2019Jean HeneganComment(0)

I suspect many of you haven’t heard of Another Life, Netflix’s attempt at a gritty, complex sci-fi series that dropped on the same weekend as the final season of Orange is the New Black. I honestly hadn’t heard about it until I signed into Netflix and saw that Katee Sackoff (best known for her stellar […]

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Catch-22 – Episode 4 Review

July 30, 2019September 12, 2021Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

After the focused story of the previous episode, Catch-22‘s fourth episode is a return to a more sporadic story. After the deaths of McWatt and Kid Sampson, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) decides he is going to do his reminding 11 missions as fast as he can. After completing those missions in six days Yossarian has to wait […]

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Orange is the New Black Season Seven Review and Retrospective

July 30, 2019Jean HeneganComment(0)

The end of Orange is the New Black marks the end of an era for streaming television. It might be hard to fathom now, but when Netflix launched Orange is the New Black and House of Cards within months of each other in 2013, no one was sure if the nascent television network (which, until […]

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Dream Casting: The MCU X-Men Movie

July 25, 2019November 15, 2024Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

The X-Men are set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to Disney’s purchase of 20th Century Fox. Many fans have been wanting this for years and they are now getting their wish. With an MCU X-Men film being inevitable it would mean that there would be new cast to play the mutants. There are hundreds of […]

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Catch-22 – Episode 3 Review

July 24, 2019May 13, 2022Kieran FreemantleComment(0)

Catch-22 continues with a much more focused episode with its third entry. It is the strongest episode in the season so far. The 256th US Army Air Squadron has been given the mission to bomb Bologna. The city is heavily defended by the Germans and Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) believes it will be a suicide mission – […]

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