An excellent black comedy, handsome thriller and a tall story that keeps you guessing as it unwinds. The genuinely ridiculous plot (a man pays a couple of goons to 'pretend' to kidnap his wife in order to get his paws on his in-laws' 'ransom' money) is completely credible as mighty plans fall apart, spiralling ever more beyond the protagonist's control and leaving us marvelling at the complex stupidity of human nature. A modern classic.

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One summer day ten-year-old Michele is playing near his isolated village in poverty-stricken southern Italy, when he discovers a cave with a ghost-like child locked in it. On the one hand he starts to feed and befriend the child, on the other his eyes are opening to the adult world about him; nasty Brazilian gangster Sergio arrives, adults retire to argumentative meetings and a child abduction figures on the TV. Unfortunately for Michele the truth sets him on a journey that will put him in confl find out more...

A masterful adaptation of David Peace's Ellroy-esque noir trilogy. In '1974', the first chapter, a rookie journalist looks to solve the increasingly vexing case of a serial killer on the loose. A bleak vision of corruption in an emphatically isolated 'North', which raises the game for levels of darkness in TV drama. Andrew Garfield gives a captivating performance as the idealistic journalist in way over his head. Highly recommended. find out more...

The trilogy continues and life in West Riding becomes grimmer. Police corruption interferes with the search for a killer in Yorkshire, England. This time, Paddy Considine's Mancunian copper-with-a-heart-of-gold is brought in to head the inquiry into the unsolved murders. Like the journo before him, he finds resistance wherever he turns. Gripping stuff, based on David Peace's novel "Nineteen Eighty" find out more...

The grisly trilogy concludes in dramatic fashion. Mark Addy gives a sterling performance as a burned-out solicitor whose conscience won't let him give up. The seemingly untouchable, corrupt West Yorkshire police, and the true evil mastermind behind the child abductions and murders of the last 14 years are dragged into the light. Excellent British television. find out more...

1.1 - The world is thrown into turmoil when a comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth, but instead of smashing into the ground the ‘comet' explodes in a ball of light leaving behind thousands of people. These are the 4400, a group of missing persons who had disappeared over the previous 60 years from all over the world. None of them have aged a day and no-one can remember anything about where they have been or what happened to them. The American contingent are sent into quaran find out more...

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2.5 A schoolteacher's ability to inspire her students has disastrous and find out more...

2.8 A 4400 is suspected of carrying a fatal plague and NTAC race to stop find out more...

2.11 Shawn finds himself on the defensive when questioned by the media find out more...