I grew up already knowing about Richard Burton well, Richard Jenkins because my dad adores him. Honestly, he might even be my dad’s favourite actor of all time. So when I watched Mr Burton, I went in with a kind of inherited familiarity. What I didn’t expect was just how moving and brilliantly crafted the film…
Siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, best known for their sharp comedy in This Country, have turned their attention to the supernatural with their new BBC series Nightwatch. The premise sounds intriguing the duo spend nights in some of Britain’s most haunted places, from eerie prisons to pubs with centuries of ghostly tales. On paper, it’s the…
Football is often seen as a game of wealth, fame, and security for its stars, but behind the glamour lies a darker reality. In the BBC documentary Football’s Financial Shame: The Story of the V11, former Premier League presenter Richard Lenton stepped into his first executive producer role to uncover one of the sport’s most shocking…
I’m honestly not sure if I liked this three-part true crime docuseries or not. On the one hand, it’s gripping, and you want answers. On the other, I came away with even more questions than I started with. The series, Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm (available on BBC iPlayer), explores the disappearance of 41-year-old Sarm Heslop,…
“Our system has taken more away from this innocent man than the power to give back. We can change this world for the better. If we can look at ourselves closely and honestly. “I believe that we will see we all need justice, we all need mercy and perhaps we all need some measure of…
I think the critics have got this one wrong. The second season of Annika just landed on BBC iPlayer this week, and honestly, it’s perfectly watchable, more than that, it’s gripping, clever, and completely unique in how it’s told. What makes Annika a brilliant crime drama is its format. DI Annika Strandhed (played by Nicola Walker) breaks the fourth…
The BBC ‘s six-part series DEATH VALLEY stars Timothy Spall as John Chapel and Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan. Together, they investigate a string of crimes bit unfortunately, the show never quite comes together. At the centre of the series is Charles Ceaser, a fictional TV detective within the show. He’s a man who…
“I could die today. Technically. I feel sick.” These words by white independent film-maker Rob Bliss summed up the danger around him when he decided to walk through America’s most racist states wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt in memory of the 5th Anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. This Storyville documentary…
There is one novelist that deserves to have a three-part documentary about her and that is the iconic writer, Jane Austen. She is one of the main authors in our history that has shaped writing as it is today. Jane Austen is the best comedic, political and satiric novelist that we have ever produced. She…
“Are we the sum of our worst actions”, is the moral question that this riveting and thought-provoking documentary series examines. Series 4 follows three crimes where the events and disturbing details are very different, except for the “Sword of Damocles” like threat of the death sentence hanging in the air like a dark ominous cloud….
