10 Sundance Favourites for 2017
From Reservoir Dogs to Little Miss Sunshine, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced us to some of the best movies ever made, so here...
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Season One
A Series of Unfortunate Events occupies an interesting position as a story that’s simultaneously charming and dark. There are very few other tales that...
RAISING CAIN (1992)
The wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware her husband suffers from multiple personality disorder...
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘Kintsugi’ & ‘Land O’Smiles’
“Kintsugi” With episode 6 we enter the post-Frank Spotnitz version of The Man in the High Castle, where the showrunner baton has been handed...
T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017)
Renton returns to Scotland after two decades living in Amsterdam, to be reacquainted with friends and enemies from his youth...
HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
True story of an American soldier who refused to kill during WWII, but whose bravery resulted in him becoming the first person in US history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot...
THE OA – Season One
I love a good mystery, but the concern with ongoing TV mysteries, as opposed to movies or books, is they’re often designed to last...
COHEN & TATE (1988)
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed.
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
“Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that kept the...
GIRLS – Season Five
HBO’s Girls started as an Emmy darling. It was bold and it had something to say, but now it appears to be a Conservative...
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (2016)
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
LIVE BY NIGHT (2016)
A group of Boston gangsters set up shop in Florida during Prohibition, competing with rivals and the Klu Klux Klan.