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Holy shit! ITV Hub has historically been a seething cesspool of tedium, however this 3-part dramatisation of the scandal of “The Coughing Major” on UK breakout gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was surprisingly captivating television!  A little laborious

The Undoing

Nicole Kidman’s been tackling some really interesting & difficult stuff the last few years, and putting her opposite Hugh Grant who’s also doing similar made for a very compelling if disturbing story to unfold, stripping back layers & lies, and

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

As someone who’s not a software architect, I figured this book about what software architects need to know might open my eyes to the sorts of things I might need to know about if I were to ever want to

Rick and Morty

Originally I had the feeling that Rick & Morty was something that had passed me by, and then I watched an episode or 2 and thought nothing of it – so it was only being brought to it through the

The Boys – Season 2

The high-octane dark underbelly of the Superhero business continues in this gripping second season, and while the plot seemed to split out into many threads to follow, it remained unmissable due to the sheer fucking ludicrous awesomeness of spectacle and

Stateless

Fairly harrowing dramatisation of true events at an Illegal Immigrant Detention Centre in South Australia. I’ve long been critical of Australia’s policies and practices regarding refugees and this 6 part series saw many of those stories, manifest. Most gruelling of

Rampage

When someone bases a film on the giant-mutant-gorilla/lizard/wolf-centred video game which the designers famously described as “a game that there was really no wrong way to play”, this is exactly what you end up with.  Granted, the film had much

The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie seemingly signs on all his current cool acting mates for another convoluted extensively-casted crime caper, this time with Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey et al. Hunnam seems unable to deliver anything nuanced (albeit a much

From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

Bit of a baffling one this – it takes the chronological run of Star Wars (or, if you’re hung up on such things, “Episode IV: A New Hope”) and then each chapter of this book is a short story written

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