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...
DOCTOR WHO – Series Eight, Part Three
In preparation for next weekend’s arrival of Series Nine on the BBC (19 September), the concluding part of my review of Peter Capaldi’s debut year,...
AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)
Weird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times. It’s not...
5 New U.S TV Shows to Watch this Autumn
The idea of television having seasons is largely an American term, but the term increasingly means less and less now the U.S have realised...
SHOW ME A HERO – Part Four
The wheels finally came off Nick Wasicsko’s (Oscar Isaac) mayorship this week, as the oleaginous Henry Spallone (Alfred Molina) promised the white residents of...
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2015)
When you think of environmental activism, Greenpeace is likely the first name that pops into your head. Today the organisation is synonymous with campaigns...
NO ESCAPE (2015)
Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there are, of...
DOCTOR WHO – Series Eight, Part Two
In the lead up to Series Nine of Doctor Who in September, my review of Series Eight examines the merits and pitfalls of four...
AGENT CARTER – Season One
There’s been a lot of chatter over the past few years about Marvel’s inability to release a female-led superhero movie. Despite having a roster...