Detective Insp Regan and Sgt Carter of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad investigate the death of prostitute Janice Wyatt (Lynda Bellingham) at the urging of her boyfriend Ronnie Brent (Joe Melia) and stumble across a conspiracy to blackmail British politician Baker (Ian Bannen) over an OPEC oil deal. When Brent is murdered by a pair of assassins run by Baker’s PR … Read the rest
Category: UK
Archive TV Viewing: February 2018
Space 1999 ‘War Games’
The show at its best as Alpha is almost completely destroyed with half its crew lost, in a remarkable fusion of special effects mayhem (including a giant battleship sliding over the top of the camera a good three years before Star Wars did the same thing) and metaphysical ideas about man’s right simply to exist in … Read the rest
Metro Manila (Sean Ellis, UK/Philippines, 2013)
Oscar (Jake Macapagal), his pretty wife Mai (Althea Vega), their nine year old daughter Angel (Erin Panlilio) and baby boy (Iasha Aceio) arrive in Metro Manila in the hope of a better life. When Oscar lucks into a job as security guard in an armoured van and Mai lands a job as hostess in a bar things begin to look … Read the rest
