IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (1962)
In WWII, 12-year-old orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Russian officers.
STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING (1972)
A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
THE X-FILES, 11.4 – ‘The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat’
Darin Morgan was always a name to look out for in the credits of 1990s The X-Files, having penned many of the show’s funniest and...
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (1976)
An occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.12 – ‘Vaulting Ambition’
A great magic trick is all about misdirection. While many had spotted the groundwork going into Star Trek: Discovery’s mid-season twist (that Ash Tyler...
DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE (1971)
A Victorian scientist tests a serum that transforms him into a sensuous murderess.
BLACK MIRROR, 4.6 – ‘Black Museum’
This final episode was longer than usual, although there were less feature-length instalments compared to the last series. “Black Museum” reminded me of 2014’s...
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970)
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
THE X-FILES, 11.3 – ‘Plus One’
Chris Carter delivers his first decent X-Files script in years, by doing something that doesn’t involve the tangled mythology and was instead a simple...
COCO (2017)
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer...
BLACK MIRROR, 4.5 – ‘Metalhead’
Episode 5 is a bit of a departure for the current series of Black Mirror and feels more like a standalone short movie. Within...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.11 – ‘The Wolf Inside’
The signposted twist with Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif), that he’s actually Klingon “torchbearer” Voq, surgically altered to infiltrate the Federation, didn’t land its blow...