Nick's Film Jottings

We normally had a new series every January - because of Covid we had to wait until September for Striker . Also evident is the slightly depo...

Now we're having to live with three episode seasons. Oracle . The Oracle is the woman who has 'seen' the tow-path killer? For on...

Led Zeppelin rings in the changes in  Plyon . Everything has changed, and it ain't funny. Thursday has been demoted following Fancy'...

  Muse . Threat to steal Faberge egg. Is 'The Shadow' involved?  Very funny visual joke (it's the calling card of 'The Shado...

A draggy, badly edited film with deliciously crazy performances by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Kim Novak. Fi...

We were delighted to learn that season 2 has another 16 episodes; less delighted that Louisa's long lost brother Martin Shaw turns up fo...

 It's funny how on each successive jotting on this the detail grows - have a look at the last one to see. The important information we ...

Ride. 1967. Morse is out of prison but extremely pissed off at his treatment and the cover up of everything that has gone on at County and B...

A man 'falls' onto a car roof and the game's afoot, involving a College and a building project. Colin Dexter is observed at a me...

Of course it's Davies - the great adapter (he'd done Bleak House  in 2005). But it's Dickens - you'd have to be an idiot to ...

Quite lovely to see these early films: Morse meeting Jim Strange, Anton Lesser coming in and not being impressed with Morse at all; meeting ...

A custom has arisen between warring gangs in Kansas City that the sons from each family should be traded to preserve the peace. Ironically, ...

I happened to see this on the shelf and thought 'What's this now?', took it out and saw Alexis Bledel - What?? Of course the fir...

Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, writer of Sometimes Always Never , The Claim , Goodbye Christopher Robin , The Railway Man, Grow Your Own, ...

The epitome of cozy English murder. An independent naked-river-swimming architect (Samantha Bond, with a 'dodgy' past secret) gets i...

You may recall that in Season 2 there are references to Sisyphean tasks involving pushing a rock up a hill which always rolls back down agai...

We stumbled across these on Great TV and found them to be good easy watching with an occasional quite grown-up storyline - racism (more than...

Dolly Rebecca Parton died yesterday aged 80, creating a tsunami of fan worship and a frenzy of media recaps. It sounds like she was a beauti...

Starts out with youngest brother Kieran Culkin keen to get into the electric typewriter business. Goes to a diner to put pressure on a judge...

A beautiful riff on the original set in the same snowy environs of North Dakota and Minnesota. Martin Freeman you feel works really hard at ...