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Movie Review – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, 2016. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp, Kim Dickens, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Following a family tragedy, lonely teenager Jake decides to travel to Wales in order to search for answers that his grandfather has told […]

Movie Review – Viceroy’s House (2017)

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Viceroy’s House, 2017. Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Michael Gambon, Huma Qureshi, Lily Travers, Simon Callow, and Om Puri. SYNOPSIS: Lord Mountbatten, as the last appointed Viceroy of India in 1947, is tasked with handing the country back to its people after 300 years of British imperial rule.  His […]

61st BFI London Film Festival Review – On Chesil Beach (2017)

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On Chesil Beach, 2017. Directed by Dominic Cooke. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Adrian Scarborough, and Bebe Cave. SYNOPSIS: Young newlyweds Edward and Florence arrive at their seaside hotel for their honeymoon in the 1960s, full of anticipation as to what married life has in store for them. As […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 19 Review – ‘Orange is the New Maze’

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Tori Brazier reviews the nineteenth episode of Lucifer season 3… In a move that feels a long time coming this season on Lucifer, ‘Orange is the New Maze’ focuses on everyone’s favourite prickly demon, who is feeling desperately sad – and a sad Maze (Lesley-Ann Brandt) is an angry Maze. Having stormed out of Chloe’s […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 18 Review – ‘The Last Heartbreak’

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Tori Brazier reviews the eighteenth episode of Lucifer season three… ‘The Last Heartbreak’ is another episode that justifies Tom Welling’s decision to appear in Lucifer as Pierce, taking on such an apparently ‘beige’ character at the beginning of the season – a character that has since been revealed to have plenty of torment to tackle […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 17 Review – ‘Let Pinhead Sing!’

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Tori Brazier reviews the seventeenth episode of Lucifer season three… While Lucifer could never be called a particularly original show, it does at least embrace the clichés it peddles, selling them wholeheartedly. Set-ups may be quite predictable, and follow storylines we expect, but with its playful tone and knowing glances it almost doesn’t matter. ‘Let […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 15 Review – ‘High School Poppycock’

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Tori Brazier reviews the fifteenth episode of Lucifer season three… Another episode walking on the lighter, more flippant side of Lucifer (if you couldn’t tell already from the title’s inclusion of an incredibly Lucifer-esque word – which means ‘nonsense’, for the confused non-Brits), ‘High School Poppycock’ delves into the world of teenage drama and romance […]

Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)

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The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett. SYNOPSIS: Mute orphan Elisa lives her life on the edges in Baltimore in 1962, until her job working nights as a cleaner at a secret US government […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 14 Review – ‘My Brother’s Keeper’

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Tori Brazier reviews the fourteenth episode of Lucifer season three… After an episode off and half a season to emerge as one of Lucifer‘s most likeable supporting characters, ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ gives forensics’ finest Ella Lopez (Aimee Garcia) her moment in the spotlight. When her diamond-certifying brother Jay (Rey Valentin) goes unexpectedly AWOL, Ella calls […]