The Rupert Graves Project - Fast Girls

I'm not sure there is much I can tell you about the story of Fast Girls that you don't already know.
It is the story of hope over adversity and talent over bigotry and to be honest it isn't even the best example of those traits to have ever been committed to film. Don't get me wrong the film is good enough but ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Law & Order UK

Series 3 - Episode 3
‘Defence’

Law and Order UK is our own home grown version of the popular US TV show of the same name.  The show focuses on the two halves of the criminal justice system - the police investigation of a crime and then the subsequent prosecution of the suspects of that crime.

In this episode ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Lewis

Series 4 - Episode 4
Falling Darkness

Lewis, like its predecessor Morse, is not a show I ever watched - nor even now find myself drawn to. But in the spirit of the RGP I will put my prejudices to one side for an hour and half and see what the show is all about.

This episode focuses on the police pathologist Dr Laura ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Wallander
Series 2 - Episode 2
The Man Who Smiled.

I have to be honest from the start - I’ve never fancied this series it struck me as too much like a foreign version of Inspector Morse or Lewis - an hour and a half of ponderous goings on before the successful conclusion of another case. Apart from this episode I haven’t ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Son of the Dragon

I URGE you to read this RGP post if only to ensure that NONE of you have to sit through the almost 3 hours of this TV miniseries. (Believe me even the way I watched it, it seemed like 3 lifetimes not 3 hours!!!)

1 minute in and I knew EXACTLY what to expect from this….it was immediately obvious that it ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Warning…this is an extremely shallow RGP review - less of my usual plot synopsis followed by a discussion of Rupert’s role and more a case of…if you haven’t yet seen this then I urge you to beg, steal, borrow a copy of this and watch it NOW.

I’m not normally a fan of period/costume drama ( ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Ashes to Ashes

We Fade to Grey

As I assume you all already know, Ashes to Ashes, is the spin off series from the excellent ‘Life on Mars’. The show keeps the ‘time travelling cop out of water’ premise but moves the action from Manchester to London and the time from the 1970’s to the 1980’s.

Rupert appeared in the third ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Garrow’s Law - Series 2

The real drama in this series of Garrow’s Law is not so much the cases that Garrow takes on - which are the usual mix of the hopeless and the helpless - but the ongoing saga of his relationship with Lady Sarah Hill and how that relationship affects not only William and Sarah but also Sarah’s ( Read more... )

 
The Rupert Graves Project - V for Vendetta

Strength through Unity
Unity through Faith

V for Vendetta is a 2005 film based on the DC comic book series written by Allen Moore and David LLoyd and is ultimately about one man’s belief that if a vision is believed by enough people it can change the way those people live their lives.

The world of V is a ( Read more... )

The Rupert Graves Project - Scott & Bailey

‘Nicholas Savage….looks about as savage as a wet sponge’

As character assessments go this one couldn’t have been further from the mark but more of that later.

Scott & Bailey is a Police drama based in Manchester and centres around one team within the ‘Major Incident Team’. Scott and Bailey are two DC’s ( Read more... )