THE OA – Season One
I love a good mystery, but the concern with ongoing TV mysteries, as opposed to movies or books, is they’re often designed to last...
COHEN & TATE (1988)
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed.
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
“Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that kept the...
GIRLS – Season Five
HBO’s Girls started as an Emmy darling. It was bold and it had something to say, but now it appears to be a Conservative...
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (2016)
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
LIVE BY NIGHT (2016)
A group of Boston gangsters set up shop in Florida during Prohibition, competing with rivals and the Klu Klux Klan.
GOODFELLAS (1990)
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed the mythology...
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
SHERLOCK, 4.2 – ‘The Lying Detective’
Sherlock’s almost manic necessity for tricky narrative transition calms down a bit this week, fortunately. There are less wipes, dissolves, and multiple POVs cluttering...
