Category: Review
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Dream Horse Review by Washington Post
Welsh Pride by Michael O’Sullivan | Washington Post | May 19, 2021 Based on a true story, “Dream Horse†is a straightforward and unfussy feel-good drama about a group of ordinary people from a small Welsh town who decide to inject a little zest (and the risk of financial ruin) into their humdrum lives by…
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Dream Horse Review by LA Times
A Sense of Purpose, Companionship and Community by Katie Walsh | LA Times | May 19, 2021 What’s in a name? For the plucky Welsh racehorse Dream Alliance, well, a lot. His mighty moniker reflects the big dreams of his unlikely owners, a syndicate of working-class folks from a tiny Welsh coal-mining village. Based on…
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Dream Horse Review by The Independent
Steady Gallop by AP News Wire | The Independent | May 20, 2021 The based-on-a-true-story “Dream Horse,†about a Welsh bartender who turns unlikely race horse breeder, is a feel-good movie that’s a little too heavy on the “feel-good” to really do the trick. But as with all long shots that pay off, “Dream Horse 
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Dream Horse Review by Slant Magazine
A Warm-Hearted Tribute to a Spirited Animal and People by Mark Jenkins | Slant Magazine | May 17, 2021 ***3 out of 4 stars*** Anyone who’s seen Dark Horse, Louise Osmond’s 2015 documentary about a group of poor Welsh villagers pooling their money to bankroll a race horse, will know what’s going to happen in…
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Billions Is Back, and It’s More Billions Than Ever – May 3, 2020
Season 5 Interview with Co-Creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien by Sam Schube | GQ | May 3, 2020 If it seems like the verbal acrobatics on Billions could only have come from a kind of writerly mind-meld, that’s because they do. Co-creators and showrunners David Levien and Brian Koppelman met at 15, and have…
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Billions Returns to Old Conflicts and Alliances, While Adding New Foes – May 1, 2020
Psychological Warfare: All Smiles Through Gritted Teeth by Brian Lowry | CNN | May 1, 2020 “Billions” has shuffled allegiances so many times it’s tough to keep track without a scorecard. But the bottom line is that Showtime’s high-stakes drama remains enormously entertaining, making its return more than welcome, even if the show’s latest creative…
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Billions Review: Money’s the Root of All the Delicious Evil – May 1, 2020
Backstabbing and Frontstabbing by Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun Times | May 1, 2020 Everyone is awful. We’ve known that for quite some time about virtually all the major players (and many of the supporting ones as well) in Showtime’s addictive money-drenched drama “Billions,†but never has it been more evident than in the first…
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Wall Street Journal Review: Spy Wars With Damian Lewis – March 19, 2020
Espionage in the Spotlight by Dorothy Rabinowitz | The Wall Street Journal | March 19, 2020 Smithsonian Channel’s series tells shockingly true stories of the clandestine variety. In 1968, a loyal officer of the KGB is so shaken by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that he becomes an operative for British and American intelligence—one, “Spy…