Sometimes you're in need of something a little lighter in your viewing - step forward this high school musical with added ghosts! Julie is a gifted musician, but the death of her mother has left her too traumatised with the grief to return to the music they both loved. That is until she discovers a … Continue reading Julie and the Phantoms (season 1)
Turns out Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes had a much younger kid sister, at least according to this movie and the books it's based on. Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) has been raised in relative isolation by her bohemian mother (Helena Bonham Carter) - who goes missing on the youngsters sixteenth birthday. So there's our underlying mystery … Continue reading Enola Holmes (2020)
My love for The Umbrella Academy was clear from season 1, with its quirky, irreverent take on the superhero genre. Season 2 would finally solve the cliff-hanger ending, but would its appeal wane with the shifting story? Well I'm delighted to report: absolutely not! In fact, there's as much if not more to love here 🙂 … Continue reading The Umbrella Academy (season 2)
When their father is murdered, the three Locke siblings and their mother move back to his childhood home. For some mysterious reason, he'd never taken them to see their ancestral seat, but lost and grieving, the family grab at the chance to learn anything about him. And Keyhouse - the family obviously enjoying a pun … Continue reading Locke and Key (season 1)
Welcome to a dark fantasy world of monsters and magic. Witchers, genetically modified hunters of said monsters, are a dying breed. Here we follow some of the adventures of the legendary Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), also known as the White Wolf and the Butcher of Blaviken - we'll find out why in an early … Continue reading The Witcher (season 1)
Since the first season arrived in 2016, Stranger Things has been one of the highlights of TV viewing. The mix of horror and mystery, weird and nostalgia, all hit a sweet spot. Usual warning: even mentioning names could be a spoiler for who survives series 1-2, so read on at your own peril! We already … Continue reading Stranger Things (season 3)
A disastrous attempt to fix global warming sees the planet plunged into an ice age. Humanity's only survivors are the passengers of a world-circling train, a 'luxury liner' affair built by a train-obsessed rich industrialist. Seventeen years later and the wonder of engineering might still be in full working order, but society on board is … Continue reading Snowpiercer (2013)
Cynic Natalie (Rebel Wilson) hates romantic comedies, hates the lies they tell about life. And then one day she hits her head and finds the New York she knew has been replaced with a flowery, polite, nice kind of a version where men find her fascinating and every swear word is beeped by a reversing truck … Continue reading Isn’t It Romantic (2019)
If you're thinking "I need another superhero show in my life like a hole in my umbrella" then I can tell you, I was too. And then curiosity got the better of me and I have never binged anything so hard! They might be superheroes - super strong, able to talk to the dead, bend … Continue reading The Umbrella Academy (season 1)
Almost a decade has passed since Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, returned to his inheritance in England as Lord Greystoke, John Clayton III. But as Europe tries to carve up Africa for their own economic gain, all is not well in the Belgian Congo. Struggling to pay his debts, the Belgian King Leopold invites Clayton … Continue reading The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
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