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Atlanta on my mind

If you haven’t checked out Donald Glover’s show ‘Atlanta’ already, you are missing out. Many of you might recognize Glover from the hit show ‘Community’, and some of you might have bopped your heads to his tunes – Glover’s rap name is Childish Gambino. In ‘Atlanta’, Glover brings us to – surprise, surprise – Atlanta, where Earn Marks […]

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“We’re not bad people…” – Bloodline

With TV shows such as ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Orange is the New Black’, Netflix have managed to create their own successes in addition to providing its subscribers with other shows and movies. Although I still have some catching up to do on ‘House of Cards’, it only took me a week to finish off […]

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Film

You need that good story, though…

We watch movies for different reasons. Example: it’s Sunday, you’ve got a hangover and you want to watch a movie, but at the same time you’re looking to use as little brain activity as humanly possible without being asleep… or dead. Chances are you won’t go for ‘Citizen Kane’, ‘Inception’ or ‘Raging Bull’. You go […]

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The small towns rattled…

We’ve all seen the news reports from real life… the standard “we never thought something like this could happen in our little community” statements setting a sad and tragic soundtrack to pictures of an idyllic, quiet town – a town not used to danger, where harmony is as ever present as in a Boyz II Men song from the […]

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The Affair – dangerously charming

As I read the news that Ruth Wilson (‘Luther’) and Dominic West (‘The Wire’ and ‘The Hour’) teamed up in a TV series together, I immediately started looking forward to it. Not a lot was revealed regarding the plot of the show before it started, and even 7 episodes in, a lot of questions remain unanswered in […]