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Golden Years, The

Films about a group of elderly friends. One of them accidently robs a building society and then gradually recruits the others so that they can save their club.

7/10

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Gabby Douglas Story, The

True story about a poor black girl from America who dreams of being an Olympic gymnast.  She eventually gets the Olympics and at London 2012 gets gold.

6/10

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TV Review Call the Midwife Series 6 Episode 2

The 2 main patients stories relate to an expectant couple with a form of dwarfism and a second expectant couple where the husband is serious injured in an explosion.

Shelagh is first on the scene at the explosion near the docks and helps some of the injured, and sees the bad safety problems there.  She is helped by a non-practicing nurse called Valerie.

Patsy learns her father is dying in Hong Kong and she need to be with him which means being apart from Delia (without a goodbye kiss due to an interruption), but their relationship is spotted by someone who helps Delia after Patsy leaves.  We also see Delia at the hospital where she is learning midwifery.

Sister Ursula bans sweets and being nice and helpful to the patients but the nurses and even the nuns who have vows of obedience find ways around this.

Shelagh and Patrick tell the children about the new baby.

8/10

 

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The Grand Tour – Episode 12

The tent is still at Loch Ness and this time they look for the monster.

They have a challenge to drive across Germany and Austria with rude sounding names.

7/10

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Never Been Kissed

A journalist goes undercover at a high school and needs to make friends with the popular students but her natural friends would be the less popular ones.

Things get complicated whenshe starts to fall for the English teacher.

7/10

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Trumbo

True story about the screen writer Dalton Trumbo who was blacklisted in Hollywood as he was a member of the communist party.  He secretly wrote scripts for films which managed to get Oscars which made the blacklist meaningless.

7/10

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Tammy

Film about a woman called Tammy who leaves her fast food job and then discovers her husbandnin cheating on her so she goes on a road trip with her gran.

6/10

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Maid in Manhattan

Rom Com about a single mother hotel maid who is mistaken for a rich guest when she tries on clothes in a hotel room.  She ties to keep her true identify from a prospective politician for as long as possible but is eventually discovered. her son then tries to bring them back together.

8/10

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The Grand Tour – Episode 11

The tent is in Loch Ness.

They have a challenge driving across France in second hand Maserati’s.

6/10

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TV Review Call the Midwife series 6 Episode 1

All except Trixie return from south Africa, as Trixie is staying there to run the hospital for a bit. Everyone is surprised when Sister Ursula who has temporarily been in charge is placed in charge full time and Sister Julienne has to work under her.

Sister Ursula bans TV and removes it (I think she has I in her room), she makes Sister Mary Cynthia have a near nervous breakdown following gbher attach last series and ignores advice from Dr Turner and Sister Julienne about he car and sends her to the mother house in Chichester. Patsy gts address news about her father inHong Kong who is asking for her but this will mean she said separated from her secret girlfriend Delia who is now a trainee midwife.

The main patient story is about domestic violence and helping the woman to escape to safety with her children.

In good news it appears South Africa has magical abilities to cure fertility problems as Sheilagh reveals to Patrick that she is pregnant.

8/10