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The Walking Dead: season 6, episode 1 recap: "First Time Again"

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 12th October 2015

The Deaders are back, and Rick's playing Lemmings on the Mayhem level. "Let's go!"

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Get On Up

Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 20th November 2014

Pop star biopics don't really work, do they? They love to take great, heavy-handed pains to hint at the inspiration behind the subject's most famous work, like a whole film comprising Forrest Gump telling John Lennon how in China the people have no possessions, and no religion too. Get On Up, the story of James Brown, isn't quite as guilty of this as most, and boasts a standout lead performance by Chadwick Boseman, but by Christ, its script is funky, and not in a good way.

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The brutality of Mark Strong

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 18th September 2013

I haven't seen Low Winter Sun yet, but if this is anything to go by, it looks like pretty intense stuff. Witness Mark Strong, a tough cop hardened by a life seeing horror after horror on the streets of Detroit, giving a man a wet willie till he coughs up the information he wants. Next week: Mark nicks a guy's He-Man lunchbox and throws it on the roof of the science block to teach him a lesson.

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