Nick's Film Jottings

I bought this as we were having a Sharon Small withdrawal after The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Unfortunately it's nowhere near as good....

It's sadly early to start this list (5 January) but unfortunately we have a contender already, Hunting Wives , some crap about a woman w...

This series has been recommissioned every year without fail since 1996, making it surely one of the most popular ever.. McCrery was a former...

A Hammer thriller with an intriguing premise: a man stops to help an unconscious man who suddenly coshes him, takes his money and car. Then ...

John Le Carré had died and never had a Carré sequel been written without him. Farr says the idea for how it continued came to him in a dream...

A reboot of characters based on novels by Elizabeth George, previously dramatized in a series running 2001-2007 with Nathaniel Parker and Sh...

Story by Arleen Sorkin (no relation) & Paul Slansky & May Quigley, screenplay credited to Sorkin & Slansky and Caron. We all kno...

After The Rip  it was nice to see a bright and clear piece of photographic work by Ed Wild. It's not the best film in the world but it...

It was shot - by Juanmi Azpiroz - with Netflix's usual disregard for lightness and clarity, and with their painfully loud sound effects ...

Yes, we were a bit gutted to realise that the final season only had two films unlike all the others. Know Thine Enemy . Writer Ed Whitmore. ...

More remarkable animation, but it's exhausting  - I had to watch it in three chunks. And I was disappointed that at two hours ten we are...

 S. 5, 3. Chinese Walls . Ed Whitmore. Murder of young woman in Hyde Park. Links to her half-sister Georgia Mackenzie, and her online sex bu...

A two and a half hour version, in which it's pretty likely that Edward Bleumel is a bad guy and that he shot himself in the library - th...

Ella Maisy Purvis is back, but to her consternation her previous boss is gone and instead we have the extremely rude and antagonistic Jessic...

S 5, 1. Natural Causes. Writer Peter Jukes. Lynley is on suspension, Havers is working for tough but fair and rather pregnant DI played by L...

Epic nine part (six hour) series for FX, based on Patrick Radden Keefe's non-fiction investigation into true events starting in the time...

 S 4, 2. In the Guise of Death . Writer Simon Block. An apparent suicide in a stable in Cornwall next to Lynley's mum's. Her friend ...

 S 3, 4. If Wishes Were Horses . Writer Simon Booker. A man is blown up with a car bomb. His current wife Jemma Redgrave and former one Barb...

Say Nothing . The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

 S 3, 3. A Cry For Justice . A murder in Oxford. Is somehow philanthropist / businessman Terence Harvey involved? Is his wife Jenny Agutter?...