A patient audience will receive its reward, as this film’s climax is worth the wait
Month: January 2022
A Beautiful Mind – a beautiful film?
A worthy biopic, it falls to easily into accepted Hollywood banalities
Borgen: Season 1 More Scandi noir
A political thriller that boils over into melodrama, Borgen keeps you watching… just
Encanto Disney needs a new metaphysics
Encanto shows promise, but reverts to Disney’s typical utopian fairytale in the end
The Jewel in the Crown – Inferno and Imperialism
There’s a visceral pleasure to the intrigue, violence and romance of Jewel in the Crown, but the overall effect is somewhat bewildering
The Princess Diaries 1 & 2
Both films are incredibly shallow, but the first is surprisingly funny – the second is better ignored.
The Chosen: Season Two – an incomplete human drama?
The Chosen is inoffensive, occasionally enjoyable, but too often falls short of a complete human drama
The Chosen Season 1 – Global sensation
The first season of Jesus-show ‘The Chosen’ was enjoyable, if a little cheesy, translating the Gospels into a modern format
Disney special 3 – Pocahontas
Pocahontas has a forgettable plot, but some memorable moments of Disney song and animation
Ruadhán and Seanan’s favourite books of 2021
What you will find below is a pleasant mix of fact and fiction; loquacity and punchy prose; light reading and heavy.