Tag: Alison Oliver
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Best Interests review: heartbreaking BBC drama
Best Interests tells about the parents of a young girl with a degenerative muscle disease. She lived much longer than expected, but when it was time to let her go the family fell apart over the decision.
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Saltburn: another horrible man wins everything
Saltburn is a morality tale, or perhaps a parable. It doesn’t end with a lesson, but a warning. It’s the story of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a scholarship student at Oxford who presents himself as poor and orphaned. He pretends to be kind and helpful to befriend Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), and Felix buys into…
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Conversations with Friends: bring on the dysfunctional relationships
Conversations with Friends is a slow moving Irish tale based on a novel by Sally Rooney, who authored the very popular Normal People from a couple of seasons ago. Once again we have people desperate for love, but unable to create functional loving relationships because they are pretty dang messed up as human beings.