In my opinion, Netflix have delivered some excellent documentary films and series over the last couple of years, and although their latest offering, Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story isn’t their strongest, it does deliver exactly what it says on the tin. Knighted by the Queen, publicly lauded for his fundraising and charity work –…
Tag: Mini Series
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022)
As fans of cinema and TV we do have a certain level of tolerance for the ridiculousness that sometimes comes with our favourite form of escapism. We like to poke holes in the logic of science-fiction, roll our eyes at the bad guy’s terrible aim in action movies and throw our hands up in exasperation…
Hawkeye (2021) Series Review
If you cast your mind back to late 2018, before pandemics, lockdowns and social distancing were common everyday phrases, Disney announced the release of their own streaming service to be launched in 2019 (or March 2020 for us Brits). Whilst everyone was excited about the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, it was the announcement of…
Clickbait (2021) Series Review
A few weeks before the Korean series Squid Game exploded onto our screens and dominated the Netflix top ten, Clickbait was enjoying it’s fifteen minutes of fame. The eight-part limited series, created by Tony Ayres, is a clever suspenseful thriller that is kicked off in quite spectacular fashion after a video appears on the web…
Series Review: Chernobyl (2019)
With the final series coming to an end, I was worried that I wouldn’t find anything to fill the Game of Thrones shaped hole in my life, but then along comes writer, Craig Mazin (Hangover 2, Identity Thief) with the hard-hitting HBO mini-series, Chernobyl, which is currently sitting pretty as the highest rated series on IMDB….