There will be three big parts to this review, because I want to make sure that I spend enough time on the actual review of the film, without bogging down in the questions around the 3d/high frame rate stuff or lingering too much on the major problem with the film. I would consider it spoiler free, but if you're paranoid about knowing which ( Read more... )

The review - no spoilersFirst things first, just a very basic review of the film. It's a great Bond film, possibly a contender for the best Bond film ever. I however am not a huge Bond fan, I watch them more as isolated, slightly throw-away thrillers rather than as some hallowed hero that's been with me since childhood. Even on those grounds ( Read more... )

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The show centres around Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens, a character created by Elmore Leonard (who's also an exec producer). He's something of a throwback, like a Wild West sheriff all about justice, not necessarily the law, speaking softly and drawing fast. It's enough to make you get poetic. Timothy Olyphant Deadwood, Hitmanis superb; award ( Read more... )

The Brief - Your standard procedural type thing, but the team is a group specialising in past life regression and their witnesses are reincarnations of victims.

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It's taken me a month to get round to watching this pilot and writing the review during which time Past Life aired three episodes, lost 60% of its audience and got cancelled. Making my ( Read more... )

The Brief: Our hero is a body guard/private investigator, going undercover to find out who's trying to kill his client. He's also got issues. It's based loosely on the DC comic, but has removed most of the superhero type stuff.

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There's another 'teaser' available here, but rather hilariously all it does is edit the pilot down into 3 minutes, so ( Read more... )

The Brief: Based on the Steve Martin film of the same name, it's an ensemble drama featuring the extended Braverman family.

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I found it impossible to watch this show without at every step comparing it not only to the film of the same name, but more importantly the well established show Brothers and Sisters. Each show has a large ensemble cast ( Read more... )

Way back in December various websites, magazines and newspapers started compiling 'lists of the decade' and I watched with interest how different those lists were. For a start the lists did different things - "best of the decade", "most important", "most influential", "our favourite" - each allowed a slightly different take on it. But even taking ( Read more... )

The Brief: Four new graduates join a prestigious law firm, basically it's Grey's Anatomy with lawyers.

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Everything's trying to be the next Grey's Anatomy and the more of these shows that come along, the more I realise just how special Grey's is, because those that try to emulate it are failing miserably ( Read more... )

The Brief: Fifteen year old Lux is trying to escape the foster care system and go it alone as soon as she hits her birthday in a couple of days. But to do that she needs the signatures of her birth parents, who had a one night stand when they were sixteen and never really looked back. Inevitably they find they need each other and end up forming a ( Read more... )

The brief: A prequel to Battlestar Galactica, set on Caprica 50 years or so before the fall. Two very different families find themselves connected and possibly, accidentally, bringing about the end of civilisation.

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This pilot has been out and about for a while thanks to a DVD and iTunes premier last April, but I hadn’t watched it as I felt I ( Read more... )