Nicholas Winton is a famous humanitarian who helped save 669 children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. His story is dramatised in the film One Life. In 1938 Nicholas Winton (Johnny Flynn) is a stockbroker who travels to Prague to help the British Refugee Council with the evacuation of political refugees. However, when Winton visits a refugee camp […]
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The Crown Season Six (Part One) Review
The first half of The Crown’s sixth and final season covers, as you might expect based on where the series left things at the end of season five, the final weeks of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s life before their tragic death in Paris as well as the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Alas, it […]
Bondathon: Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies was a film rushed to capitalise on the success of Goldeneye. It seemed like it could have suffered from the issues that affected The Man with the Golden Gun with it being a notoriously troubled production. A British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. The British and Chinese dispute the events and look set […]
Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #8: Pirates of the Caribbean
Kieran Freemantle and Jean discuss the past, present, and future of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Tales From the Loop (Spoiler-Free) Review
Over the past several weeks, a number of smart, emotionally resonate, and just plain good sci-fi/magical realism shows have premiered. There’s the dark but compelling tech/sci-fi series Devs on FX on Hulu. There’s the magical and charming Dispatches from Elsewhere on AMC. And now there’s Amazon’s beautiful and layered Tales From the Loop, a linked […]