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Film review: ‘DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’.

Downton Abbey: A New Era. The TV series Downton Abbey, which depicted the lives of the lords and ladies of the Crawley family who inhabited the titular estate in the 1910’s and 20’s, lay somewhere between sophisticated drama and super-sized soap. Its slightly dubious celebration of privilege and apparent endorsement of class divisions was made palatable by the quality of

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Film review: THE EQUALIZER

The Equalizer is yet another film which revels in a mass-murdering vigilante’s psychopathic behaviour then tries to justify that behaviour by giving it a patina of paternalistic righteousness and by suggesting it’s all necessary to clean up the mean streets. In other words it’s offensive right-wing clap trap. Based loosely on the 1980’s TV show which starred Edward Woodward as

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