DOCTOR WHO, 9.2 – ‘The Witch’s Familiar’
Perhaps it was inevitable that Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) would escape the ‘maximum extermination cliffhanger’ by using those vortex manipulators so...
Trailer: POINT BREAK (2015)
People always have the same conversation whenever a beloved film or cult hit gets remade: why redo something that wasn’t bad to begin with? It’s a...
5 New U.K TV Shows to Watch this Autumn
The British television industry doesn’t work to the seasonal schedules of our American cousins, strictly speaking, but it remains true autumn is a time when...
EVEREST (2015)
When a film’s based on a true story, it often means it’s telling such an incredible story that it’s hard to believe it’s actually...
THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Summer’
It couldn’t last, could it? The relative breeze that was the opening episode of This is England 90 has proved, as expected, to be...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.1 – ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’
Would you leave a child to die on a battlefield? Well, you might have second thoughts if that child was Davros (Joey Price), the...
RICKI AND THE FLASH (2015)
I intended to begin this review by commenting on how infrequently Jonathan Demme’s in the director’s chair these days, but a quick look at...
THE MESSENGER (2015)
Labels can be a tricky thing for a film to come lumbered with. Genre is an ever-flexible thing and films don’t always fall unequivocally into...
SHOW ME A HERO – Part Five & Six
It may have taken its title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quote “Show me a hero and I’ll show you a tragedy” but as David...
THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Spring’
Early on in the first episode of This is England ’90, Gadget (Andrew Ellis)—who might as well have been looking straight down the lens...
Interview: French filmmaker Rémy Gente, creator of THE STRAIN’s special opening titles
If you’re watching FX’s vampire drama The Strain this season, you can’t have missed the show’s special opening titles, which appeared during episode 9’s “The Battle...
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (2014)
“Gotta give the crowd what they want, baby,” a character says early on in Monsters: Dark Continent, as a group of gamblers crowd around...