Billy Kaye was my Dad’s friend first, but was really a friend of the family. My family has a habit of adopting people whose own family lives too far away to get together frequently. So I got to know Billy Kaye at Thanksgiving dinners, though I’d see him and his …
Aidan Turner: Desperate Romantics Episode Six (Part of The List series for Aidan Turner) SPOILERS, ye be warned. Click HERE for review of Episode Five. Episode Six bring the Desperate Romantics series to an end. This is a powerful episode for Aidan Turner and Amy Manson, even more that previous episodes. …
Aidan Turner: Desperate Romantics Episode Five (Part of The List series for Aidan Turner) SPOILERS and all that. Click HERE for Review of Episode 4. If you thought that I was always going to retain some small bit of sympathy for the charming, deceptive Dante Rossetti, well this is the episode …
Aidan Turner: Desperate Romantics Episode Four (Part of The List series for Aidan Turner.) SPOILERS and all that. Click HERE for the Review of Episode Three. So this is the episode when tides begin to turn on Aidan Turner”s character Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He also starts to go to other…models…for, well, for …
Aidan Turner: Desperate Romantics Episode 3 Click HERE for review of Episode 2. Episode Three of Desperate Romantics is full of deception and revelations. This is the episode when fiery Lizzie starts standing up for herself, challenging Dante more than he’s probably ever been challenged before. She calls him on his lies …
Aidan Turner: Desperate Romantics Episode Two To continue my review of Desperate Romantics with Episode Two finds the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in a desperate struggle to further their artistic ambitions. Previously they had received the high praise needed from Ruskin. The next step was to obtain his patronage. This would grant them …
Aidan Turner: Desperate Romantics My Style Review – Episode One [NOTE: It was suggested that I write my review of Desperate Romantics for each episode, rather than one covering the whole show. I like the idea, so that is what I shall do. The focus, of course, will be on Aidan Turner’s performance.] …
Aidan Turner in HATTIE (2011) Spoilers ahead. You have been warned. HATTIE is a beautiful and emotional period film (England, 1960s) based on the events of actress, Hattie Jacques and her relationships with her husband John LeMesurier and her lover, John Schofield (played by Turner). Yes. Both were named John. This …
ALARM (2008), written and directed by Gerard Stembridge, is an unnerving tale of distrust and mental instability. Well, that’s if you simplify it. And that’s no fun, now is it? So! We meet this lovely lass, Molly, right? And she’s had a rough go at it. Her dad was killed …
THE HOBBIT; A Pre-Movie(s) Review “”Balin and Dwalin,” they said not daring to be offended, and sat flop on the floor looking rather surprised.” – The Hobbit, Chapter Seven. J.R.R. Tolkien”s tale The Hobbit is beautifully and comically written. Tolkien is such a wonderful storyteller that the tale of Bilbo Baggins and Thorin and …
