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Michael Hogan

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Tiddler (2024) 5/5 EDIT “Lovingly crafted by Magic Light Pictures, the colourful animation was precision-tooled to enchant children hopped up on sugar and presents, from its calming sub-aqua visuals to its repetitive narrative. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 9, 2025 Full Review Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022) EDIT “This pop psychology doc is surprisingly enlightening...” – The Times (UK) Sep 6, 2022 Full Review Long Shot (2017) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A gem of a documentary explaining how Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm saved one man's life...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 31, 2022 Full Review River (2021) 88% 1/5 EDIT ““Rivers run into the future and remember the past.” Oh hush, you frightful bore.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 25, 2022 Full Review The Tinder Swindler (2022) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A juicy, jaw-dropping true-crime story which beggars belief.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 2, 2022 Full Review 15 Minutes of Shame (2021) 82% 2/5 EDIT “The premise was timely and the programme classily produced. The biggest shame here is what a mess it became.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 29, 2021 Full Review The New Wife (2018) 1/5 EDIT “With its manufactured scenarios and manipulative set-ups, it felt invasive and exploitative.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 4, 2020 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “Both sides could have done a lot worse than watch this film, which humanised the issue with real heart. It was just two people, trying to build a family together.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 11, 2020 Full Review The Speed Cubers (2020) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This documentary is deceptively tender but it's OK mama, I didn't cry. Well, only a bit.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 11, 2020 Full Review The Wizard of Lies (2017) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Pfeiffer stole the show as Madoff's wife Ruth, nervously chain-smoking her way through a scandal she naively knew nothing about.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 20, 2020 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “It was a neat and jolly enough premise but sadly, the ideas were superior to their execution.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 18, 2019 Full Review A Christmas Carol (2018) 52% 4/5 EDIT “It's ultimately an ambitious, brutal take on Dickens's familiar ghost story. Yes, it's a little hammy, but it's also haunting and hallucinatory. Just don't expect to sleep well on Christmas Eve.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 17, 2019 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “It was a high-stakes tale of deception and desire. A ripping yarn with a moral twist in the tale. Just a shame it was self-indulgently spread over 90 minutes, rather than 60 or 75.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 9, 2019 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “Thirty years since their initial success, the Eighties pop sensations have finally been clutched to the nation's hearts. A Night In With Bros (BBC Four) proved a surprisingly engaging, highly entertaining victory lap.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 22, 2019 Full Review 5/5 EDIT “There's a veritable space race of programming to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, but the breathtaking docudrama 8 Days: To the Moon and Back (BBC Two) will surely go down as the best.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 11, 2019 Full Review The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On (2019) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Azhar's thesis floundered midway through, becoming circular and repetitive, but this fine film reignited in an impassioned closing sequence.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 28, 2019 Full Review The Junk Food Generation (1999) 2/5 EDIT “Dietary expert Dr Michael Mosley, should have known better than to supervise this dumbed-down experiment on low-rent celebrity lab rats. It was overlong, under-thought and taught us little.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Sleeping With the Far Right (2019) 50% 2/5 EDIT “This was a promising premise with the wrong presenter.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 26, 2019 Full Review What Camilla Did Next (2019) 2/5 EDIT “She's a fine role model but this flimsy film failed to do her justice. Sorry, babes, but they mugged you off.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 12, 2019 Full Review Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were (2018) 4/5 EDIT “This was a poignant, life-affirming and frequently tattyfilarious film, rich in nostalgia, although an editor's red pen would have been welcome in places.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 11, 2019 Full Review Escape From Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess (2018) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Latifa might now be detained against her will. Yet as she said: "This video means it won't be in vain. I hope some positive change comes out of this." Viewers of this grimly compelling film will hope so, too.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 21, 2018 Full Review Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Viewers were left similarly fulfilled by this giddy, grin-inducing romp.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 10, 2018 Full Review Inside Facebook Secrets of the Social Network (2018) 3/5 EDIT “This film might have been visually drab - all screen shots, talking heads and pixellated hidden camera work - but this was incisive, valuable documentary-making. Zuckerberg might mark this programme as disturbing but I click on "like".” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 19, 2018 Full Review Good Evening Britain (2018) 2/5 EDIT “Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid's combative relationship and controversial interviews attract copious column inches, even if they're soundly trounced in the ratings by their BBC rivals.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 2, 2018 Full Review Secrets of the Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury (2018) 2/5 EDIT “This documentary went behind the scenes to trace the confectionery giant's 194-year history, telling how a modest family cocoa business in Birmingham evolved into one of our most successful exports.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 11, 2018 Full Review
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