Hard Lessons Catherine Standish, Saskia Reeves (“Us (TV)”, “Belgravia (TV)”), has been taken. But by whom? For what reason? Why is this happening who is behind it and can any of the Horses keep up with Jackson Lamb, Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”, “Killers Anonymous“)? Shirley Dander, Aimee-Ffion Edwards (“Peaky Blinders (TV)”, “Blithe…

Strange Games We are back in the world of espionage and people who aren’t very good at it, hence why they are in Slough House, with the series based on the books by Mick Herron, brought to TV by writer Will Smith (“ Paddington 2”, “Veep (TV)”), Slow Horses. Season three kicks…

Episode 3, Secrets & Lies Well, perhaps I should eat my words. We were granted early access to three episodes of Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters by the good folks over at AppleTV+ and it would be easy to go back and edit my episode two review where I, harshly, said we didn’t seem to be…

AKA Mu zhong wu ren You would have thought that providing a blind man with a sharp weapon, a sword for example, is a really, really bad idea. Well, in writer / director Bingjia Yang’s The Blind Swordsman, that proves to be the case, but not for the blind man. Blind Cheng, Miao Xie (“The…

Episode 2, Departure I had some hopes for Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, for a variety of reasons, not least because it had Godzilla in the trailer, but also because it’s from Legendary, who are the kings of bringing big monsters to the screen. I also had some fears for the series, because it’s…

Episode 1, Aftermath From the minds of Chris Black (“Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)”, “Ugly Betty (TV)”) and Matt Fraction (“The History Of America (Short)”) comes the latest series to AppleTV+, Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters. With Monarch we are in the world of Godzilla and we are referencing at least one of the previous…

Billy Idol Performs At The Hoover Dam Legendary British-American rocker Billy Idol performs where no-one has performed before, not once, but twice, performing at the iconic Hoover Dam, once at sunset with special guests that illuminate the surrounding Black Canyon of the Colorado River, and an acoustic duo set on the roof of the powerhouse directly at…

Ryan Gosling Takes Lee Majors Place As The Unknown Stuntman Oh how I loved The Fall Guy when I was a kid growing up. From the theme tune, performed by Majors himself, less said about that the better perhaps, to the 1908’s GMC truck. I guess it was also that I fancied being a stuntman when I was a younger…

The British Rock Band Make A Come Back Back in 2002 it would be reasonable to say that not many people had heard of the band The Darkness, they were unsigned and performing at relatively small venues with their unique brand of tongue-in-cheek rock. By 2004, all that had changed. They had sold over one million albums and…