Lydia Mitchell

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Ralph Breaks the Internet

This movie is fun, mindless entertainment. In short: It's Clickbait.

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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

I love this movie. It's not a great piece of cinema but it is fun and dumb action based on the classic game franchise. The movie nails the aesthetic of the tomb raider world in its set and character design. Some familiar and accomplished faces appear, and they do as well as expected with what is fundamentally a shallow plot and flimsy dialogue. I have a particular fondness for the casting of Angelina Jolie's IRL dad to be Lord Croft. So let your hair down, make your self comfortable and enjoy a light-hearted adventure romp in the grand tradition of Indiana Jones.

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American Horror Story: 9x08 Rest in Pieces

I am living for this serial comedy.

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The Great British Bake Off: Season 3

There's something wrong with this season of Bake Off and it's hard to identify.

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The Great British Bake Off: 7x05 Pastry Week

Sue sounds completely done with being on bake off.

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American Horror Story: 9x04 True Killers

Okay, so pretty much everyone is terrible or a murderer. Neato. At least the end promised the uncanniness I've come to expect in AHS.

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Bones: 8x09 The Ghost in the Machine

An unusual format for this show, very reminiscent of The Lovely Bones, including the smoke transitions. This is a softer, more empathetic episode and is sensitive in its treatment of the episodes victim.

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Beastly

For a movie about the sins of being shallow, this is a horrifically superficial teen movie with none of the characteristics that make a classic transcend the time in which it was made. The characters are straight up weird and the story is weak.

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Grand Designs: 11x07 London: The Disco Home

One of the most insane grand designs ever.

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Boys Over Flowers: 2x01 One year later... At last, it returns!!

Woah lots of swearing, unexpected. This episode was also wayyyy longer than anticipated. Lots of interesting new characters to meet and some good old fashioned shojo plot-complications/ tropes.

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The Good Wife: 5x03 A Precious Commodity

Such a challenging topic for a mainstream tv show to tackle.

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FairyTale: A True Story

A childhood favourite with an astoundingly well-known cast. The soundtrack and script manage to capture both childhood whimsy and the desperation of people in the middle of a terrible war needing to believe in something more than their reality.

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Blood+: 1x11 After the Dance

Julia is the best comic relief character.

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Hidden Kingdoms

A decent addition to the BBC Earth collection and Stephen Fry does a bang up job as narrator. The "constructed storytelling" and cgi can be jarring.

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Wild Wild West

Cheesy, camp and cringe all in one place!

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How I Met Your Mother: 5x12 Girls vs. Suits

The show tune at the end of this episode is possibly a season highlight in a great season. We get tantalisingly close to seeing Ted's wife.

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Not Today, Bianca: 1x02 Santa Baby

Well that was weird, what even is Kombucha?

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Horns

Strange film, visually beautiful. Daniel Radcliffe's American accent was occasionally grating, however his performance is solid. Was surprised by the Heather Graham cameo, didn't know she was still acting.

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Suburgatory: 3x08 Catch and Release

The one with an elaborate musical number.

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Suburgatory: 3x05 Blame It on the Rain Stick

Tessa is not a good friend, and desperate enough to ignore the fact she's joined a cult.

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Simply Irresistible

If only to be a fly on the wall when this movie was pitched. A romcom about food and a magical crab? This movie has is entirely of its time, and its not necessarily a good thing, visually its 90s af, but its also forgettable. Not a bad film, its still watchable, if only for the crab.

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Valentine's Day

This movie continues in the tradition of films focused on particular holidays begun by Love Actually. Featuring a series of vignettes of intertwined relationships on Valentine's Day in Los Angeles. Whilst there are plenty of familiar faces, this movie can't really measure up to the success of its predecessor. Despite this, its still a fun and light-hearted romantic comedy.

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Mortdecai

Thos whole film can be summarised as peculiar. If it is attempting to replicate slapstick British humour for the American audience then somehow it misses it's mark. A star studded cast can't redeem this bizarre escapade and even stranger characters. It is at times entertainin, but not in a so-bad-its-good way.

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The Nanny: 3x20 Where's the Pearls?

Or the one in which Fran develops Amnesia. Fun celebrity cameos from Liz Taylor and Rosie O'Donnell

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The Nanny: 3x17 Val's Boyfriend

This is the mustard episode you may have seen on YouTube.

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The Vampire Diaries

Fundamentally a teen soap with a paranormal bent. Other writers have far more adequately addressed the flaws of this show already so I won't repeat them here.

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The Nanny: Special 2 Oy to the World - An Animated Christmas Special

Well this episode was surreal.

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River Monsters: 8x02 Death Down Under

I've never heard Jeremy cuss so much before :D

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L!fe Happens

A bit predictable and certainly no knockout, but still satisfying.

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Time to Love

I'm not sure if something has been lost in translation with the English subtitles but the pacing seems erratic, like large parts of the plot are missing. An understanding of Chinese history before watching probably helps. The production quality also seems lower than other adaptations of the book or even other Chinese historical dramas. I also found the lead character to be entirely unlikable and a little bit twee.

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