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Sweetpea
In the iconic movie The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger's Joker chillingly tells Batman: "Madness is a lot like gravity...all it takes is a little push." And in Sky Atlantic series Sweetpea, we discover what happens when a wallflower, who's spent her life being mistreated and ignored, is given the greatest of shoves...

Paul Gainey
May 223 min read
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Gavin and Stacey Christmas finale
And this time, we got the answer we’ve all been waiting to hear. The feature-length "Gavin & Stacey" finale ended in wedding bells... or at least, karaoke down the pub.

Paul Gainey
May 223 min read
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Wallace and Gromitt – Christmas special
This Christmas saw the triumphant return of Wallace and Gromit in a new and lovingly crafted feature-length film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

Paul Gainey
May 222 min read
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Baby Reindeer
Scottish writer and comedian Richard Gadd recounts the true story of being harassed and stalked for years.

Paul Gainey
Feb 73 min read
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Blue Lights
Blue Lights, Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson’s Belfast-set drama about police trainees, was one of the BBC’s breakthrough hits of 2023.

Paul Gainey
Feb 71 min read
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Dinosaur
It’s off to Glasgow for Matilda Curtis and Ashley Storrie’s new six-part comedy Dinosaur.

Paul Gainey
Feb 71 min read
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The Jinx Part 2
There used to be a rule that documentary-makers shouldn’t interfere with their subjects...

Paul Gainey
Feb 73 min read
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Red Eye
But Red Eye is not ambitious. Silly, sure; derivative, yes; but just about watchable...

Paul Gainey
Feb 73 min read
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Masters of the Air
Masters of the Air is a huge, epic second world war drama, more than a decade in the making, filled with matinee-idol movie stars.

Paul Gainey
Feb 74 min read
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The Offer
It shouldn’t take an uninspired TV series to prove how hard it is to make an inspired movie.

Paul Gainey
Feb 73 min read
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The Perfect Couple
A murder that almost everyone in the vicinity had a motive to carry out...

Paul Gainey
Feb 73 min read
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The Night Agent
Netflix’s newest spy thriller “The Night Agent” reminded me of ‘90s and ‘00s projects like “In the Line of Fire” and the Bourne movies.

Paul Gainey
Feb 74 min read
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Gavin and Stacey- Christmas Special
What a perfect Christmas present – Smithy tearfully proposing to Nessa...

Paul Gainey
Feb 33 min read
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Sweetpea
In the iconic movie The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger's Joker chillingly tells Batman: "Madness is a lot like gravity...

Paul Gainey
Jan 313 min read
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Barry
"Barry", Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s dark HBO comedy, concerns a hitman (Hader) who is hired to kill a member of an acting workshop, but...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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The Flight Attendant
The ingredients that make up “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max’s highly entertaining, stealthily thoughtful thriller, should all feel...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Abbott Elementary
The hilarious mockumentary set in a US school, Abbott Elementary, is full of astonishingly rapid-fire jokes, immaculate timing and...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Crossfire
How to sum up Crossfire (BBC One), except as Die Hard sponsored by Jet2 Holidays? It is a boxset thriller in which Keeley Hawes - the...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read
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The Rise of the Nazis
History documentaries mixing expert analysis and dramatic reconstructions are commonplace, but the BBC’s "Rise of the Nazis" has been a...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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The Rise of the Nazis
In the last episode of 'The Rise of the Nazis' (BBC) the death, on April 12, 1945, of President Roosevelt was for Adolf Hitler his last...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20244 min read
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