Tag: Ruth Wilson

Down Cemetery Road–A Grave Drama

Written by Diana Paul on January 12, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

For fans of Mick Herron’s “Slow Horses”, the new series Down Cemetery Road is part of the Zoë Boehm series featuring a tough-as-nails Oxford-educated detective (Emma Thompson) who takes no prisoners. The other main character is a quixotic homemaker named Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson), whose husband is a cheating liar with little respect or...

Woman in the Wall–Imprisonment in the Magdalene Laundries

Written by Diana Paul on April 14, 2024. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Set up as a six-episode thriller, Woman in the Wall is based on the horrific exploitation of teenage girls and young women in “the homes for unwed mothers” in Ireland. The scandal of the Magdalene Laundries has damaged the Catholic Church for over a century and a half. This fictionalized account focuses on Lorna Brady...

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Written by Diana Paul on April 2, 2023. Posted in movie reviews.

For fans of the BBC series, Luther (2010-2019), there is now a movie, “Luther: The Fallen Sun”, which continues the crime-solving by a London cop–John Luther (the magnetic Idris Elba) who is more troubled and morally conflicted than anyone else on the police force. Needless to say, he is also a genius in comprehending the most heinous...

Tag: Ruth Wilson

Down Cemetery Road–A Grave Drama

Woman in the Wall–Imprisonment in the Magdalene Laundries

Luther: The Fallen Sun

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