YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode One’
So what kind of a show is this anyway? Good question. Initial reactions to Sky1’s You, Me and the Apocalypse (which we all know...
THE MARTIAN (2015)
If you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of space, surely...
BROOKLYN (2015)
Brooklyn is a period drama adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name that follows Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish woman...
THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Autumn’
Sunday night, 9pm, is a TV timeslot made for the warm bubblebath that is Downton Abbey. It’s a time of the week that demands...
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...