• Signs of the Time: ‘Ebbing’ is sacred and profane…

    Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) daughter was murdered seven months ago. Not just murdered, but raped and burned and left on the side of a country road. The police haven’t found her killer and however horrific the crime, the town of Ebbing has slowly moved on.  But Mildred can’t and...
  • Roar, the Beloved Country? ‘Panther’ pounces…

    Forced to take the throne after the assassination of his father (during Captain America: Civil War), T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) has the hard task of balancing the outward world’s view of Wakanda, with the secret that his country is far more advanced than anyone realises. The country’s rich source of...
  • No Kidding: YouTube’s “Cobra Kai’ waxes lyrical…

    Over thirty years ago, Johnny Lawrence (William Zarba) was a up-and-coming martial-artist, learning his technique from Kreese (Martin Kove), the sensei of the local Cobra Kai judo. But Kreese was ruthless and in the end both Johnny and Kreese found themselves on the wrong end of a more responsible,...
  • ‘Please Stand By…’ for an away mission with heart…

    Wendy Welcott (Dakota Fanning) is a young woman with emotional problems, living in a San Francisco community house run by the often over-worked but always caring Scottie (Toni Collette). Wendy has her careful daily routines involving chores and an undemanding job serving complimentary pastries at a local fast-food outlet...
  • Winchester: Old school horror gets a realty check…

    Compromised and soon-to-be-impoverished psychiatrist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is beginning to wonder whether his own addictions may have been the downfall of an otherwise respected career but he is approached to evaluate the mental state of Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), the widow of the man who created the famous...
  • Hosts ‘n’ the Machine: HBO’s robot reboot returns…

    Though it had a notoriously problematic production and plenty of controversial delays on its journey to the screen, there’s little doubt that the first season of HBO‘s Westworld was worth waiting for. From its memorable credit sequence through to its complex post-modern sentient robot reboot of the original Michael...
  • Hit and Swiss: Lost in Space’s Robinsons get revamped…

    As part of an exodus to another star-system, the Jupiter 2 is a shuttle that abandons a space-station hub but finds itself separated from the other shuttles and one of the few to survive crash-landing on a unclassified, unexplored planet below.  The Jupiter 2’s crew are the Robinsons –...
  • Author Jane Harper remains a ‘Force of Nature’…

    Several days ago, financial giant BaileyTennants ran one of their semi-regular ‘bonding’ weekends in the Giralang mountains near Melbourne, Australia. One set of five women and another of five men went off, separately, on hikes where they followed markers and maps to get to their nightly camps and destinations....
  • Connolly’s ‘…Woods’ unearths rich, tangled roots…

    Deep in the Maine woods a body has been uncovered with forensic teams quickly establishing that the remains are of a woman who died in childbirth. There’s no indications of what happened to the baby or how the infant or mother came to be there.  Miles away, a white...
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