I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Frame Rated; a freelance writer and erstwhile MSN TV critic, who's worked for Digital Spy, What Culture, AICN, and others. I also maintain a long-running personal blog, Dan's Media Digest, and can usually be found procrastinating on Twitter or podcasting at Vampire Videos.
Charlie Brooker gets back behind his laptop to write this second episode of Black Mirror‘s third series, “Playtest”, directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield...
Audiences have been staring into Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror for five years, incredibly, but the Channel 4 anthology had only produced six episodes and...
Marvel’s latest begins promisingly, with a funky ‘70s-flavoured soundtrack and moody shots of nighttime Harlem in glistening yellows and deep blacks. We’ve already met...
Backstories are at the heart of Westworld’s third episode, “The Stray”, in the invention of a new narrative for Teddy (James Marsden), the revelation...
There was a surprise four-year time-jump for the penultimate episode, “NIM”. That’s a lifetime in technology circles. It’s 1990 and Donna’s (Kerry Bishé) using Windows...
Updating Westworld (the 1973 movie Michael Crichton wrote and directed) is a great idea because enough time’s passed for a different approach to the...
What new movies and television shows are most deserving of your attention this month? Our editor, Dan Owen, selects his top six choices for UK audiences...
The firmament really started to shift and shake in “The Threshold”, an episode where characters either literally or figuratively crossed a barrier and found...
Halfway through Halt and Catch Fire’s third season, and things are starting to come together slightly. The show’s split between the ‘Mutineers’ and ‘MacMillanites’,...