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Cinema Review : Little Women is as enchanting and clever as the novel.
For those unfamiliar with the novel of the same name, Little Women is the coming of age story of four sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth. Set during the American Civil War, the girls live alone with their mother Marmee (Dern) while their father is still away at war. Meg...
Netflix: Our favourite book-loving stalker is back to find Love.
*** May contain Season One spoilers*** If like me, you spent the last 12 months scrolling past the Netflix series You thinking it was just another millennial love story, then you’re missing out. Starring Penn Badgley, of Gossip Girl fame, as Joe, a smart, well-read...
Netflix : Olivia Colman shines as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown
Since it’s Netflix debut in August 2017, The Crown has proved to be popular with viewers and critics alike. It has garnered a string of international awards and catapulted it’s star, Claire Foy, firmly into the spotlight. Until now, Foy has played the young Queen...
Cinema Review: Charlie’s Angels (2019)
Charlie and his Angels have been with us since the mid-’70s. The original TV series was on air for five years and followed three highly trained and capable police officers recruited to be private detectives. The catch was they were all beautiful and almost always had...
Cinema Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…
Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) is a faded TV cowboy who, as the work dries up, spends his days' guest-starring on other television shows, contemplating a ‘step-down’ move into Italian cinema and driving around with his stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt). As a stunt double, if...
Why Dead to Me is the best new show on TV.
Jen (Applegate) is a sardonic widow, determined to solve her husband’s recent hit-and-run murder. Judy (Cardellini) is a free spirit suffering from a tragic loss of her own. These two very different women meet at a grieving support group and instantly click. But as...
Does new web series Chambers have heart?
Sasha is a high school student who has a heart attack while canoodling with her boyfriend. Miraculously, another local young woman, Becky, dies and Sasha receives her heart. Weird shit starts to happen with Sasha seeing visions and feeling connected to the now dead...
The new zombie series Black Summer has a bit of bite!
Written as a prequel to the recently cancelled Z Nation (the first 4 seasons are available on Netflix. I am not sure where you can watch the 5th and final season), this new zombie series is set in the early days after some sort of zombie event. We pick up the action...
Will Huge in France be huge?
Gad is a very famous comedian... in France. Seemingly bored with his life (midlife crisis?) and tired of having another man raise his teenage son, he decides to move to Los Angeles, where his son lives with his mother, to try to reconnect with him. The catch is, he’ll...
Sir David Attenborough is back to save Our Planet
Released on Netflix during the first week of April, Our Planet is Sir David Attenborough’s new original project, produced in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Should I watch? Yes, you should. And you can read my full review over at Newcastle Live!