Spooks

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Spooks: The Greater Good

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 29th April 2015

Spooks The TV Show was always a cut above regular television. Each of its 10 series was densely plotted with subterfuge, moral dilemmas and shock deaths, but even if you immediately lost track of the complicated details within, you could still enjoy the tension, twists and conspiracies at a surface level. But how does that all translate to the big screen for Spooks The Movie? Do we have a Hollywoodised version with airborne car chases and a Jay-Z soundtrack? Nah. All that we have here is really just more of the same. The question is: is that necessarily a bad thing?

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Top 20 TV shows of 2011

TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Matt Looker, Kirsty Harrison, Alex Gregg, Luke Whiston, Ali Gray | 31st December 2011

You like lists, right? Especially ones that tell you what to think? Step inside, reader: here's the best TV shows of the year, determined by people vaguely qualified to do so.

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DVD weekly: Harry Pearce, Mildred Pierce and Merlin's peers

TV Feature | Matt Looker | 28th November 2011

Here are all the new releases on DVD and Blu-ray, just begging you to buy them. Go on, this shit makes for great Christmas presents and looks a lot better than giving your mum the latest Steven Seagal film to open.

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TV shows dressed up for Halloween

TV Feature | Matt Looker, Ali Gray, Kirsty Harrison, Ed Williamson, Cal King | 31st October 2011

It's not just fat kids and humiliated parents that parade themselves in crappy costumes on Halloween. Thanks to some Photoshop tricks and treats, we have a whole group of TV shows masquerading under spooky aliases ready to shout 'boo' before holding out their hand for some Haribo.

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Proposed solution for the Spooks/Downton Abbey stand-off

TV Feature | Matt Looker | 17th September 2011

The eagerly-awaited last series of Spooks starts tomorrow, Sunday 18th September, on BBC1 at the same time as the eagerlier-awaited second series of Downton Abbey starts on ITV. What to do, what to do... Luckily, here at , we have the answer.

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Spooks to finish after the next series. Or is it?

TV News | Matt Looker | 12th August 2011

Because I've been watching the show long enough to know that you can't trust a damn thing anyone says.

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