BRAZIL (1985)
Bureaucracy on film is a subject that, for obvious reasons, has always been best approached by filmmakers working under authoritarian governments, specifically in Eastern...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.5 – ‘No Room at the Inn’
It’s time for Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) to have his turn in the limelight, and my expectations were high because a favourite episode...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Five’
We’re at the halfway point in Iain Hollands’ inventive You, Me & The Apocalypse, and, perhaps understandably, this episode aimed to give everyone a...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.7 – ‘The Zygon Invasion’
UNIT, eh? What are they like? Considering they’re one of Doctor Who’s last defences against all manner of alien incursions, they always seem to...
THE KNICK, 2.3 – ‘The Best With the Best to Get the Best’
Well, if there was any doubt at the end of the previous episode in regards to which way Dr. Thackery (Clive Owen) was going...
SPECTRE (2015)
To follow on from the billion-dollar box office success of 2012’s Skyfall must have been a bit of a daunting task for director Sam...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Devil’s Night’
In “Devil’s Night,” this week’s episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, James March (Evan Peters), the show’s spectral H.H. Holmes surrogate, invites the ghosts of...
6 HORROR FILMS TOO SCARY TO SEE TWICE
It’s Halloween this Saturday, so we’ve chosen 6 Horror Films Too Scary To See Twice. As the title suggests, not every film is a...
SCREAM: THE TV SERIES – Season One
“You can’t do a slasher movie as a TV series,” states pop-culture geek Noah (John Karna) in the first episode of MTV’s gory, glossy...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.4 – ‘Orange Sticker’
It seems Jarden, Texas, may not be the idyllic, marvellous sanctuary Kevin (Justin Theroux) and Nora (Carrie Coon) needed it to be, as the disappearance...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Four’
First off, apologies to everyone for the late arrival of this recap, which was down to unavoidable personal circumstances. With that out of the...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.6 – ‘The Woman Who Lived’
Immortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical debate about...