Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Wire
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Review: An overhanging wire in the backyard of the David household is spoiling the view, and driving Cheryl nuts. All it’ll take to get rid of it is a final signature from an adjacent neighbour; simple, if not for the fact this is Curb Your Enthusiasm. […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Group
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Review: While Cheryl excitedly rehearses from a surprise casting in The Vagina Monologues, and old flame of Larry’s has an interesting proposition for him. Reluctantly, and not without inquiring about the scales of incest; Larry is dragged along to offer his ex emotional support at an […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: Interior Decorator
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Review: Larry’s desperate to land Diane Keaton for his latest project, but as usual the fates are conspiring against him, leading to a number of missed appointments with her. Meanwhile, he’s baffled by his doctor’s new appointment rules and is as equally puzzled by […]

Item: The X-Files: Scary Monsters
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Review: A young boy whose drawings come to life with grisly consequence provides the premise for this episode; a relatively straight forward stand alone that neither excites impresses.
For a start, the storyline once again feels like something out of a more fantastical show than an X-Files […]

Item: The X-Files: Improbable
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Review: An unusual episode, but one of the more interesting of the final few seasons; Improbable offers us a strange tale of numerology, a hunt for a serial killer and a strange individual who seems to know the answers to everything, played by the brilliant Burt Reynolds.
It’s […]

Item: The X-Files: Audrey Pauley
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Review: The lacklustre final season delivers a pretty decent episode with this, for the most part a Reyes centric tale that offers up an original enough idea and some solid character development for both Reyes and Doggett.
After a pleasant evening with Doggett, Reyes begins her drive […]

Item: The X-Files: 4-D
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Review: A vicious serial killer flitting between alternate realities to live out his sinister fantasies without retribution is the premise of this episode.
This is a solid enough episode, and one of the first to really seal the new pairing of Doggett and Reyes as something to take notice […]

Item: Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
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Review: Louis Theroux travels to Kansas and meets with the Westboro Baptist Church, home of the infamous Phelps family.
As the Phelps family travel the country, picketing the funerals of dead soldiers with their baffling propaganda; Theroux watches carefully, neither engaging them to […]

Item: Louis and the Brothel
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Review: Louis Theroux travels to Nevada and enjoys a stay at The Wild Horse Ranch, a legal brothel. As he spends several weeks interviewing those who work and frequent the establishment, he also chips in and manages the phones, working alongside his subjects.
While his more […]

Item: Louis and the Nazis (2003)
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Review: In one of his more recent films, Louis Theroux travels to America to investigate the Neo-Nazi movement. It’s one of his more daring and uncomfortable endeavours; opting for more head on investigation than the lighter distractions his Weird Weekend series had to offer, but all […]

Item: When Louis Met Ann Widdecombe
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Review: Louis meets Ann Widdecombe; a controversial Conservative MP famed for her right wing philosophies and prudish private life.
It’s one of the more awkward and abrasive pairings in the When Louis Met… series. Widdecombe is both distrustful of Theroux and defensive of all but the […]

Item: Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Head For The Hills
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Review: Louis Theroux brings us another insight into the weird and wonderful as he immerses himself in the life of the survivalist. In the rural extremes of Idaho; he meets a variety of people; by choice set away from the rest of the […]

Item: Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Porn`
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Review: In one of his first Weird Weekend ventures; the ever engaging Louis Theroux sets about investigating the adult entertainment industry stateside. He meets with porn directors, porn actors, and their supporting spouses and even goes as far to make a cameo in a gay porn […]

Item: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Restless
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Review: The hit and miss forth season concludes with an unusual finale, both in subject matter and its change in pace. As opposed to the all out action we’ve had in previous seasons, here we’ve been treated to our kicks and punches in the previous episode, […]

Item: Alien vs. Predator
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Review: The anticipated meeting of two of movie’s greatest monsters is finally realized, but unfortunately fails to deliver beyond an initial, fleeting novelty.
There’s some thought put into it; an original Antarctic setting is visually impressive and the back story trying to tie these movie monsters into ancient […]

Item: Alien Resurrection
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Review: Centuries after Ripley’s suicide, military scientists have successfully cloned a copy of her to obtain the alien queen that was once gestating in her chest. Now with a fully grown, egg laying queen in their arsenal and a surprising curiosity in the hybridised Ripley clone; the stage […]

Item: Alien 3
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Review: Perhaps the entry into the franchise that divides opinion more than most; Alien 3 legacy is as evolving as the planning stages that originally promised such an elaborate and original tale.
While dreams of a wooden planet, filled with a cast of devout monks and glorious imagery were […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Cedar
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Review: Somebody’s stealing Larry’s newspapers…and a neighbourhood get together for Cedar provides the ideal opportunity to nail the culprit.
Meanwhile, a registered sex offender has moved into the neighbourhood and despite some initial apprehension, Larry is soon charmed and endeared toward the man and Cheryl is […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The End
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Review: While Richard Lewis ails away in hospital, desperate for a kidney, Larry still won’t budge and offer up his own. But, Larry’s mind (and general Larry-ness) is altered when his private investigator finally offers him the news that he is indeed adopted.
After jetting off […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Doll
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Review: After Larry’s latest behaviour; “Aren’t you Evelyn?” has now been picked up by ABC. But this reassuring new development doesn’t last for long, and as usual, Larry’s at the core of it all.
At a party hosted by an ABC bigwig; a broken bathroom lock […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: Affirmative Action
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Review: Larry’s on form here in this first season episode as he yet again quarrels with Lewis, insults a black doctor in an attempt to be “affable” and is labelled a bon-a-fide racist by a would be employee.
After losing Cheryl’s prescription for a much needed […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Nanny From Hell
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Review: Another stellar episode from the third season; where twelve sponge cakes, the nanny from hell and a child with an exceptionally large penis all roll into one to bring fresh mishaps for Larry David.
After he accidentally causes the dismissal of an eccentric […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Ski Lift
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Review: Desperate not to give away his kidney to Richard Lewis, Larry concocts a ridiculous plot to get his old friend moved to the top of the transplant list. After tracking down the head of the Kidney Consortium; Larry plays the part of a ski […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Blind Date
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Review: Exhausted after having to play helper to blind rehearsal pianist Michael; Larry decides to fix him up with a new girlfriend to take the strain of off him. After thinking over potential partners; Larry finds the perfect girl…an Islamic fundamentalist.
Meanwhile, Ben Stiller leaves […]

Item: Curb Your Enthusiasm: Porno Gil
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Review: Larry and Cheryl reluctantly attend a dinner party of a casual acquaintance of Larry’s; Gil, a former porno star.
After an draining drive to the out of the way home of Gil, the couple finally arrive at “the house that cum built”. Larry quickly makes […]