TV Review: The Santa Clauses on Disney+
Metro, November 22 Shake that snowglobe and peer back nearly 30 years, to when Tim Allen first found Father Christmas fallen from a roof in The Santa Clause. His toy salesman character Scott Calvin had […]
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The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
Metro, November 22 His status as a bona fide National Treasure means Bob Mortimer’s debut, an amiable crime thriller, comes with a fair amount of goodwill. Happily, he imbues his quirky characters and even stranger […]
In brief: Islands; The Fugitives; Ghost Music – review
The Observer, November 22 Islands by Mark Easton Early in Easton’s thoughtful exploration of the personal and political boundaries shorelines have thrown up across time, the BBC Home Editor introduces us to his muse. It’s […]
TV review: Mammals on Amazon Prime
Metro, November 2022 Let’s get this out of the way now; given his recent travails with restaurants, there is something beautifully ironic about James Corden attempting to relaunch his acting career as a head chef. […]
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
Metro, November 22 Jonathan Coe’s body of enjoyable, socially-conscious novels largely interrogate politics, class and work via family saga. He’s set himself quite the task this time, a seven decades-long state of the nation survey […]