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Slow Horses: Season 1 – TV Review

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TL;DR – This was a weird and wonderful delight, where you never know if a character will get a bullet to the head or fart themselves awake.  

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the AppleTV+ service that viewed this series.

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Slow Horses Review –

When I dived back into the catalogue of AppleTV+, there was one show that more people had recommended to me than any other. “You have to watch Slow Horses” was the call, and well, I am always one to take a recommendation when it comes as strong as that, and well, I am glad that I did because I am not sure I have ever watched something quite like this.

So, to set the scene, we open in on an airport in England as River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) is on-site leading the hunt for a terrorist. But when a bad call means that information got mixed up and the terrorist got away, River can only watch as the bomb is set off in the middle of peak hour traffic. It was only a training exercise, but it is a stuff up so bad that Cartwright was jettisoned to the worst job in MI5: Slough House. Led by the ever-flatulent Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), there is one word to sum it up: dull. But while Cartwright is looking to find a way out of this purgatory, they may have slipped onto something bigger than anyone that could get them all disappeared. Now, from here, we will be looking at the season as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Elven Kings Under the Sky – TV Review

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TL;DR – In our first episode back, we take a moment to reacquaint ourselves with the whole band as the world of Middle Earth starts to fall apart.  

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime service that viewed this episode.

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The Rings of Power Review –

Back in 2022, a very bold chance was taken. Can you jump back into the world of The Lord of the Rings but only using some of the appendices as a guide? Now, the actual result was quite mixed for people. However, I loved that first season very much, and I am excited to see where we go from here.

So, to set the scene, Sauron (Jack Lowden) was once a great lieutenant for the evil Morgoth, but once Morgoth was defeated, he alone stood to rule the orcs. The orcs had other ideas. So, how did an elf become the human Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) we first met back in Adrift? Back in the present, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo) are racing to find the best use of the new rings when Elrond has Galadriel drawn in front of High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) and the future of the Elves is thrown into sunder. But is Elrond willing to disobey his own king? Now, from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.      

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Movie Review – Dunkirk

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TL;DR – Beautiful and haunting, spectacular yet emotional, a must see film.

Score – 5 out of 5 stars

Dunkirk. Image Credit: Warner Bros.

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Wow, just wow, I had high expectations walking in to see Dunkirk because I have always enjoyed Christopher Nolan’s films, to this day I think Inception would fit squarely in my Top 10 films of all time. Indeed, even when I don’t like a particular Nolan film like Interstellar, they are still technically brilliant. But nothing prepared me for Dunkirk, and now I know I am writing this after just seeing it, and that in time things might change, but as I sit here, I can’t help but feel that this is Nolan’s best film to date.

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