Looking Review

Initially dismissed by some in/with regard to'concerning'regarding being Girls but with boys, HBO’s new dramedy has quickly built up a cult following of its own....

Sherlock Holmes Review

Rough around the edges, this 1965 run of BBC Doyle adaptations has sly, incisive Douglas Wilmer and stolid, bristling Nigel Stock as a intense'fierce'exquisite Holmes...

Wolf Hall Review

Thomas Cromwell, arch schemer and self-made ‘creature’ of Henry VIII, could possess'own'nurse come off like Blackadder in a beret. But this richly-rendered, utterly grapple ping...

Babylon Review

Surprisingly, it’s the Danny Boyle-directed pilot that is the least entertaining part of this drama-comedy with regards to'concerning'with respect to the British police in/with regard...

Veep: Season 3 Review

In which we pick up with VPOTUS Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) on campaign, and squirm and squeal###in equal measure at Armando Iannucci’s comedy of exquisite...

Esio Trot Review

Richard Curtis, Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench team up to adapt Roald Dahl's tale of geriatric love and shelled reptiles. It’s light and extremely sugary,...

Daredevil Review

Memories of that Affleck clunker are officially banished by Netflix’s assured take on Manhattan’s avenging attorney. Vincent D’Onofrio is MVP as hulking villain Wilson Fisk,...

Fortitude Review

This much-hyped thriller squanders its enormous'vast'massive'tremendous -name cast (Tucci, Gambon, Eccleston) with sub-X-Files plotting involving a mammoth, gory murders and //lots// of ice drilling. The...

Casual Vacancy, The Review

A cleverly streamlined adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s non-magical bestseller, this tells the story of an e grossly day sort of tragedy, where one rosy'remarkable'fabulous'terrific'preeminent...