Let’s get this out of the way up top. The second season of Good Omens is, at its heart, simply an excuse for David Tennant and Michael Sheen to pal around, riff off one another, and be generally delightful with their wonderful chemistry for another season of television. After all, the first season of the […]
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Britflix: The Queen
Queen Elizabeth II has sat on the British Throne for 70 years and is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. It’s a momentous achievement for her majesty, so now seems like a good time to check out the royal biopic The Queen. 1997 sees two massive events that affects the UK. The first was the election of Tony […]
Britflix: Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
The 2015 version of Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth cinematic adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s famous novel. Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) is a free-spirited woman in 1870s Dorset. She inherits her uncle’s farm upon his death. Bathsheba also becomes the object of desire for three men, the rugged shepherd Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), mature bachelor […]
Quiz Review
Quiz is a dramatisation of the trial of Charles Ingram who allegedly cheated to win £1,000,000 on Wants to be a Millionaire. It’s a miniseries that showed ambition from ITV due to its ensemble cast and choice of director. In the late ’90s, David Liddiment (Risteárd Cooper) becomes the new head of ITV and immediately […]