Reviews

Pachinko

Pachinko (2022)

Pachinko

Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive

Paddington Bear TV Series

Paddington (1975)

Paddington Bear TV Series

Paddington Bear leaves deepest darkest Peru for adventures in England with the Brown family.

Palm Royale

Palm Royale (2024)

Palm Royale

Ten-part comedy-drama set in 1969. Outsider Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons strives to attain a place in the high society of Palm Beach through the town's most exclusive country club, in the process learning what she will and won't do to achieve this

Panorama TV series

Panorama (1953)

Panorama TV series

In its early days Panorama tended to be a mixture of the arts, human-interest and scientific or medical studies. A BBC chief felt that the show should leave current affairs to other programmes.

The Paper Lads

The Paper Lads (1977)

The Paper Lads

Set in Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Paper Lads centres around the lives of young boys on a paper round who often make the news as well as deliver it

The Paradise Club

The Paradise Club (1989)

The Paradise Club

Two contrasting brothers, one a gangland boss and the other an ex-priest, are thrown together for the first time in eight years upon the death of their notorious gangster mother.

Pardon My Genie

Pardon My Genie (1972)

Pardon My Genie

When a young shop assistant casually tries to polish an old watering can he releases a genie who is as rusty as the can he lives in; he’s four thousand years old, and his magic doesn’t always work as well as it should.

Michael Parkinson

Parkinson (1971)

Michael Parkinson

The most loved interviewer in Britain, Michael Parkinson interviewed the last of Hollywood's golden greats from James Cagney to James Stewart. He introduced us to Billy Connolly and laughed along with the best of British. He crossed swords with Muhammad Ali and was attacked by "that bloody Bird."

Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation (2009)

Parks and Recreation

Amy Poehler gives an award-winning performance as mid-level bureaucrat Leslie Knope in this US mockumentary about public officials striving to make their Indiana town a better place.

Party of Five

Party of Five (1994)

Party of Five

Multi-award nominated and winning American drama series about the Salinger family - five youngsters who are trying to deal with the tragic loss of both parents in a car accident

Paul Temple (1979)

A successful writer of detective novels, living a wealthy life, is also a part-time private eye in this television version of a successful radio series

Peace with Terror

Peace with Terror (1963)

Peace with Terror

Frederick James Parsons is fanatical, dedicated, sincere; with his willing but slow-witted accomplice, Harry Warblow, he has planned a crime so sensational that it will surely call world-wide attention to his aims.

Peaky Blinders (2013)

Stylish, epic gangster saga centring on a gang led by fierce boss Tommy Shelby. Beginning on the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham, Tommy sets about creating an empire for himself and his family, and stop anyone who gets in their way

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven (1978)

Pennies from Heaven

Dennis Potter's remarkably innovative series about a sheet music salesman whose imagination often bursts into full song, building musical numbers around the greatest frustrations in his life.

Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful (2014)

Penny Dreadful

Dark, mysterious and suspenseful, featuring the most terrifying characters from classic horror literature, Penny Dreadful goes to the darkest corners of Victorian London with blood-curdling results.

The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple (2024)

The Perfect Couple

Nicole Kidman is a guest at a wedding weekend in Nantucket that gets disrupted when one of the guests turns up dead. Everyone is a suspect!

A Perfect Spy

A Perfect Spy (1987)

A Perfect Spy

Magnus Pym is a self-serving, unfeeling individual who leads a life of duplicity and betrayal.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers (1986)

Perfect Strangers

Can two cousins–one all-American and the other from Mediterranean Europe–share an apartment without driving each other crazy?

The Peripheral

The Peripheral (2022)

The Peripheral

Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own

Person of Interest TV series

Person of Interest (2012)

Person of Interest TV series

A billionaire software-genius creates a Machine for the government that is designed to detect acts of terror before they can happen.

The Persuaders

The Persuaders! (1971)

The Persuaders

"Take two relatively harmless compounds, say nitro and glycerine, mix them together and you have a very potent combination."

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn (1958)

Peter Gunn

Ground-breaking and classic US detective series that set a new standard for what a television crime drama could be. The series was a precursor to shows like ‘The Rockford Files’ and ‘Magnum, P.I.’

Peter Kay's Car Share

Peter Kay's Car Share (2015)

Peter Kay's Car Share

Supermarket employee John Redmond finds himself travelling into work with colleague Kayleigh Kitson as part of a work car share scheme. Both have different work ethics, and he is far from prepared for the impact the buddy he is paired with will have.