‘TV and Film’ Archives
Loaf Expectations: We Review The Fabulous Baker Brothers
Flashy, low quality cookery-pokery fronted by sibling irritants. Your Mum might like this. She is wrong. I found myself shouting in impatient profanity at Channel 4's new cooking show The Fabulous Baker Brothers this week. Everything about this vehicle for foodie Herbert [Read More]
Shhhh-pectacular: We Review The Artist (2011)
It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for... On general release in UK cinemas today (30 December) Michael Hazanavicius' The Artist comes highly recommended by critics, the good people at the Golden Globes and, it is assuredly predicted, by the voting members of the [Read More]
Maybe it’s Aibileen – We Review The Help (2011)
Synopsis: Fresh out of college, would-be-author Skeeter Phelan risks scandal and ostracism when she sets to work on a book of stories based on secret interviews with the black maids who serve the white families in a conservative Mississippi town. Set in 1960s small town [Read More]
He’s Bach, Re-Branded: We Review Arthur (2011)
Flawed, big-budget remake of beloved 80s rich-com leans too heavily on its star, a surprisingly subdued, inconsistent Russell Brand. It's underwhelming, and just not funny enough. Synopsis: Eccentric socialite Arthur Bach has it all- money, women, a fleet of movie cars and [Read More]
Film Review: The Next Three Days
Synopsis: Russell Crowe’s everyman husband plans to bust his wrongly imprisoned wife Elizabeth Banks out of chokey while bringing up their adorable son. This tense remake of French thriller Pour Elle (Anything for Her) from Million Dollar Baby and Crash writer Paul [Read More]
