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Slow Horses, the British spy series that has, calmly and quietly, becomes the best thing on AppleTV+ by a mile, is back for another round of intrigue and head-shaking screw-ups as the team of Slough House try to outsmart their latest adversaries and try not to take down all of MI5 with them. If you’ve […]
The role of James Bond is currently vacant, and speculation is high regarding who could be the next 007. It’s one of the most coveted roles in cinema and the media and fans have suggested many candidates. I am Pop Culture Maniacs’ resident Bond fan so I am offering up a list of 10 candidates […]
One of the brighter surprises of the 2022 television year was the debut of the British counter-intelligence drama Slow Horses on AppleTV+. Smart, bracing, complex, and unafraid to kill its darlings, the first season of the series – an adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel of the same name – was a critical and commercial success. […]
Daniel Craig’s time as James Bond has come to an end. Even though the end of No Time to Die’s credits says ‘James Bond Will Return,’ the 25th Bond film ended on a conclusive note, so Bond 26 will be a hard reboot. Seeing that I am a Bond fan and have ambitions to be a filmmaker I thought I would discuss what’s next […]
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 […]
The Long Song is a BBC miniseries based on a novel by the recently deceased Andrea Levy. What was created was a lavish, humorous and tragic period drama. The Long Song follows July (Tamara Lawrance), a house slave for the Mortimer family at the beginning of the 19th century. It is a time where slaves are starting […]
The sports comedy Fighting With My Family tells the true of Saraya “Paige” Bevis who went from wrestling in regional promotes in England to becoming a WWE star. Saraya Knight (Florence Pugh) was an outcast who grows to love the family’s tradition of wrestling and becomes a part of the family business. Saraya and her brother, Zak […]
The latest film about Mary Queen of Scots sees two important monarchs of British history going face-to-face with each other with two of the talented actresses of their generations playing them. In 1567 Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) returns to her kingdom after the death of her husband. This leads to tensions with England because she has a claim […]