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Shot by his son, Harrison, and left for dead, Dexter Morgan eventually awakes from his coma. Harrison is long gone, working at a hotel in New York. However, a dramatic event will change his life and see Dexter trying to track him down and reunite with him.

The original Dexter series ran from 2006 to 2013 and was superb, an intense mix of action, intrigue, subterfuge and psychological drama. However, it was soured by a weak final season and one of the worst endings in TV history.

That seemed to be that for Dexter but then in 2021 along came Dexter: New Blood, picking up Dexter's new life that the ending to the original series set out. I didn't expect much, figuring it was just a cheap way to cash in on the success of the original series, and possibly atone for the ending, but it turned out to be excellent.

The plot was clever and solid and the series was engaging and tension-filled. Contrary to many other viewers feelings, I even didn't mind the ending, finding it quite poetic and providing closure.

As that series ended with Dexter's (seeming) death, I thought, well, now it truly is finished. Then in 2024 along came Dexter: Original Sin, a prequel showing Dexter's young adult life and his first steps to becoming a serial killer. It wasn't bad but wasn't great either, mixing some interesting sub-plots with some clumsy developments and scenes. If there is a Season 2 of that I won't be watching it.

Hardly had that been released than we have Dexter: Resurrection. By this time I am over Dexter - the sequels and prequels just don't seem to stop. Plus the fact that he is still alive, for the sake of a sequel, makes me feel cheated as his death in Dexter: New Blood was so poetic and final.

I was thus hoping this series would be weak, and quickly apparent that it is, so that I could give up on Dexter for good. No such luck - Dexter: Resurrection is brilliant.

The series starts slowly as we see the courses Dexter and Harrison's lives have taken. However, from a point, about an episode in, it becomes very intense and engaging and never lets up. From a sedate start the plot becomes very clever and unpredictable - seemingly going down one path only to head in different direction.

The writers make full use of the other three series, using these to colour Dexter's thought processes and psychology and to inform Harrison's character too.

By the end the series is as good as the original series, filled with close-run escapes and tight, seemingly inescapable situations. Having actors of the quality and presence of Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Krysten Ritter and Neil Patrick Harris helps too as it adds polish to proceedings.

So much for ditching Dexter - I'm hooked.

If anyone was thinking this would be an historically accurate telling of the Battle of the Bulge, as most people would, they'll be sorely disappointed. This film merely uses that event as an excuse for a war movie, and a very poor one at that.

For a start, the "historic" details of the Battle of the Bulge provided in the movie are wildly inaccurate. What follows is a very badly made film with some big names (Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Robert Shaw, Dana Andrews) attached.

Even if it was called something else and didn't pretend to be about the Battle of the Bulge it would be bad: plot is implausible, action scenes are the gung ho sort kids dream up.

So bad that General Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces during the actual Battle of the Bulge and former US President, condemned it!

The original Emmanuelle, released in 1974, was hardly Citizen Kane. It was soft core porn dressed as art. It was probably quite provocative for its time but by today's standards is reasonably tame. There are some moderately interesting sub-plots but overall it is quite forgettable.

This film, the 2024 version, strives to take that film and make it even less memorable. The director and writers have somehow set out to make the world's most dull, sanitised, meaningless "erotic" drama. The average comedy is more erotic than this!

There's absolutely nothing good about this. The plot is close to non-existent and follows the original's style-over-substance, nothingness-dressed-as-art line.

Avoid.