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Carl Curtis
The Aeronauts is baloney – but it's thrilling to watch
on my last trip to london, i visited st paul’s and ascended the 528 steps to the golden gallery, 280 feet from the cathedral floor. it took ...
Critics disdain this little movie – but they're wrong
ashes in the snow (amazon prime) is a little movie, but “little” doesn’t mean small. ashes focuses on the personal trials of an adolescent g...
How saints saved a crumbling civilisation
i’d be lying if i said there weren’t any new christmas movies airing right now; in truth, i tried a couple, but couldn’t get very far with e...
Herald Top 10: Carl Curtis: Good Omens is a travesty of eschatology
good omens on amazon prime is a five and one-half hour exercise in schoolboy humour, that is, a brand of humour practised by witty adolescen...
An absorbing twist on the police drama
criminal: uk (netflix) might sound boring to some potential viewers. take into consideration these details from episodes one and two. it has...
Sacha Baron Cohen is superb in this tense thriller
it’s ironic that many series on television today are rated “ma” (mature audiences), when realistically they should be labelled “aa”, for ado...
War and peace in faerieland
carnival row (amazon prime drama series) opens with a prologue, as a tale of strange places, peoples and creatures must. it’s spoken by vign...
Have Christians taken over DC? A Netflix documentary thinks so
as netflix originals’ the family tells it, the national prayer breakfast held annually in washington, dc, is the brainchild of a decades-old...
How Woodstock ended in a trash-strewn quagmire
woodstock: three days that defined a generation (bbc iplayer/amazon prime/pbs) offers a somewhat unexpected picture of the 1969 rock festiva...
No chastity please, this is Amazon Prime
amazon’s prime’s the boys (8 episodes) has a contemporary setting, except for its superheroes and the fact that they’re an accepted part of ...
A four-hour masterpiece that you simply have to see
the opening of burning bush has the look of a sixties teen movie, with grinning kids gyrating to rock ’n’ roll – almost beach party without ...
The Last Czars on Netflix: What did the Romanovs do to deserve this?
the last czars, on netflix, juggles documentary and drama with mixed results. the documentary sections, with commentary from a half dozen or...
An old-fashioned whodunit – without the class and wit
mystery fans will recall their favourite husband and wife teams: tommy and tuppence, lord peter and harriet, and, especially from film, nick...
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