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A Street Cat Named Bob was a big hit in the UK. It was a touching story about how a man saved a stray cat and that cat helped him overcome his drug addiction. The pair return for a Christmas themed sequel. Following the events of the first film James Bowen (Luke Treadaway) still busks […]
The mythology and history of Cleopatra, pharaoh of Egypt, has often been a topic in popular culture, from Hollywood films, webcomics like Everywhere and Nowhere, and mature animated series such as Clone High. This year, a new show, titled Cleopatra in Space, tapped into those myths and stories and began streaming on NBCUniversal’s new streaming […]
White Lie is a drama that has been well received by critics and was selected as one of the Top Ten Canadian Films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Katie Arneson (Kacey Rohl) is a university student who has been faking she has cancer. Even her girlfriend, Jenn (Amber Anderson) believes she’s ill. Katie […]
“Yesterday, Seattle reported 345 more cases, 29 deaths. Test positivity rate has increased, so we should prepare for more patients… 53 of the 79 ventilators are currently in use…” That’s not a status report from Seattle’s mayor but part of an opening sequence in last week’s Grey’s Anatomy, as doctors at the fictional Seattle Grey […]
The coming-of-age drama, Cuties, shows the perils of growing up as it focuses on an 11-year-old girl who’s torn between her traditional Senegalese background and a dance troupe from her school. Amy (Fathia Youssouf) is a Senegalese girl who has immigrated to a housing estate in Paris. Her mother (Maïmouna Gueye) and the family matriarch (Mbissine […]
Based on a novel by Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals is a Dublin set film about two women in their early 30s who have refused to give up a hard-partying lifestyle. Laura (Holliday Grainger) is a 32-year-old barista and aspiring novelist who lives with her best friend, Tyler (Alia Shawkat). They continue to drink heavily, party hard and […]
The Novichok Attack was one of the most shocking international events in recent years. The BBC’s dramatization focus on the impact of this event had on the city of Salisbury. The Salisbury Poisonings on three main sets of characters. DS Nick Bailey (Rafe Spall) was one of the first police officers to investigate the Skripals’ […]
Writer/director Stephen Poliakoff is a favourite of the BBC. His most recent series is a Cold War-set spy-thriller/family drama. Samuel Petrukhin (Toby Stephens) is a Russian Jew who moved to the UK when he was eight. He’s a middle-class man who wants to be accepted by the British establishment, but he is looked at with […]
MotherFatherSon is a BBC miniseries about the struggles of a powerful family during a British general election. Max Finch (Richard Gere) is a media tycoon who has the power to sway elections in the UK. His son, Caleb (Billy Howle) is the editor of one of his papers and lives in his father’s shadow. Their […]
Jellyfish is a social drama in the British tradition of kitchen-sink realism as it focuses on the struggles of a teenage girl. Sarah Taylor (Liv Hill) is a 15-year-old girl living in Margate. She has to act as the primary carer for her younger siblings and bipolar mother (Sinead Matthews). To make ends meet she works […]