HOUSE OF CARDS – Season Five
When you look at Netflix these days, it’s sobering to realise that, just five years ago, the notion of an original series on a...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.7 – ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’
It can be infuriating that American Gods often lacks much-needed structure and clarity, because it’s evidently superb at standalone storytelling. This week’s penultimate hour,...
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 5 & 6’
With “Part 5” of Twin Peaks: The Return we learn more about the web of terror created by the now incarcerated Mr. C, the...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.9 – ‘Fall’
For a penultimate episode, “Fall” didn’t feel like one. The big storyline was something harking back to the Sandpiper case from Better Call Saul’s...
THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1975)
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming-of-age and growing into old age in conservative England.
RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (2016)
Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.9 – ‘Empress of Mars’
If this is his last appointment with the man in the blue box, then clearly writer Mark Gatiss had a field day with this...
LES DIABOLIQUE (1955)
The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; but after the deed is done, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague them...
MADHOUSE (1981)
A teacher, employed by a school for the deaf, has a surprise birthday party crashed by her deformed and crazy sister...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
American Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it hard to...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.8 — ‘Slip’
This was a deceptively clever episode, helping connect some dots between the present-day Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his Slippin’ Jimmy days back in...
THE LEFTOVERS, 3.8 — ‘The Book of Nora’
This wasn’t what I imagined the series finale of The Leftovers would be, but that’s a compliment. Considering showrunner Damon Lindelof’s repeated quote that...