Tag: Jack Thorne

  • Toxic Town, true story about toxic damage to children

    Toxic Town, true story about toxic damage to children

    Toxic Town is about a group of mothers in England’s East Midlands who gave birth to children with various limb deformities and other serious health issues. It’s a limited 4 part series on Netflix, based on real events.

  • Best Interests review: heartbreaking BBC drama

    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.

  • The Swimmers, a true story of courage and determination

    The Swimmers, a true story of courage and determination

    The Swimmers is based on the true story of an Olympic swimmer who left Syria in 2015 during the war and made a perilous journey to Germany with her sister and cousin. The film was written by Sally El Hosaini and Jack Thorne and directed by Sally El Hosaini.

  • Review: Enola Holmes 2, and Sherlock too

    Review: Enola Holmes 2, and Sherlock too

    Enola Holmes 2 takes up where the original film Enola Holmes left off. Enola, played with madcap exuberance by Millie Bobby Brown, opens her own detective agency and waits eagerly for clients to arrive. She breaks the fourth wall to share her thoughts and eyerolls with the audience.

  • Review: Enola Holmes

    Review: Enola Holmes

    Enola Holmes tells about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. It stars Millie Bobby Brown as Enola, an intrepid detective in her own right who beats her famous older brother to the answer every time.

  • Review: Radioactive

    Review: Radioactive

    Radioactive is the true story of Marie Curie, the discoverer of radium and polonium, winner of two Nobel Prizes, and a pioneering researcher into radioactivity.

  • Review: The Eddy

    Review: The Eddy

    The Eddy has a different language. That language is jazz. The story is told in jazz. Jack Thorne wrote a story about a struggling jazz club in Paris called The Eddy. He added personal drama and a suspenseful mystery. He got Damien Chazelle to produce it and direct the first couple of episodes. The series…

  • Review: The Accident

    Review: The Accident

    Sarah Lancashire, Joanna Scanlan, and Sidse Babett Knudsen star in The Accident, the final series in a trilogy by writer Jack Thorne. A lot of vocal Brits on Twitter hated it when it aired on Channel 4 in the UK. I found it gripping, complex and nuanced.

  • Watch This: Trailer for The Accident

    Watch This: Trailer for The Accident

    The Accident stars Sarah Lancashire and a brilliant cast of others in a drama about a tragedy that hits a Welsh community.

  • Two Happy Bits of News about Sarah Lancashire

    Two Happy Bits of News about Sarah Lancashire

    Sarah Lancashire has two new shows upcoming. They’ve been announced in the UK, but as of yet there’s no word when they’ll reach a distributor in the US. When I hear anything, I’ll mention it on Twitter.