It’s that time of year again for festive films old and new. One of the big cinematic Christmas films of the year is Boxing Day, the first British Christmas film with a predominately black cast. Melvin McKenzie (Aml Ameen) is an author who fled to America after his parents announced their divorce on Boxing Day two years […]
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Vigil Episode Six Review
Vigil has reached its conclusion after six episodes with a sadly underwhelming finale. DCI Silva has discovered who the Russian mole on HMS Vigil is. Unfortunately, he got to her first and locked her in a torpedo tube. The situation for HMS Vigil is dire with it flooding with water and Russian vessels in the area. On land, DS Longacre […]
Vigil Episode Four Review
The fourth episode of Vigil brings in a new suspect and theory behind the death of Craig Burke and who’s behind the issues HMS Vigil has been suffering. DS Longacre’s investigation takes her to look at an anti-Trident protest in Glasgow. It leads her to a suspect she believes to be an MI5 agent that had followed […]
Vigil Episode Three Review
The third episode of Vigil has a lot going on as it adds more suspects and conspiracies to the mystery involving HMS Vigil. DCI Silva believes that Craig Burke may have been poisoned after finding a strange substance on Burke’s hoodie and in his mouth. She also makes a lot of enemies since she has […]
Vigil Episode One & Two Review
Vigil is the latest police thriller from World Productions, with Jed Mercurio, the creator of Line of Duty credited as a producer. The first two episodes were shown on Sunday and Monday night in the UK to ensure viewers would be hooked in. A fishing trawler sinks near where the British nuclear submarine, HMS Vigil, was patrolling. […]
The Professor and the Madman Review
The Professor and the Madman tells the story of an unexpected friendship between an Oxford academic and an American surgeon sentenced to Broadmoor and focused on how they helped each other. James Murray (Mel Gibson) is an expert in languages who gets the job of editing the New Oxford Dictionary. Murray is disliked by the old […]
Outlaw King Review
Robert the Bruce is seen as one of Scotland’s greatest heroes. He was the man who liberated Scotland from the English. David Mackenzie and Netflix adapted this period of history for the film Outlaw King. In 1304 the Scottish rebel William Wallace has been captured and executed, ending his rebellion. The Scottish nobility pay homage to […]