PENNY DREADFUL – Season Two
Penny Dreadful’s second season opener “Fresh Hell” effectively restates the show’s modus operandi. The snowbound confrontation between its two female leads, Vanessa Ives (Eva Green, enthralling as...
HUMANS – series one, episode five
Week five of Humans is very much a holding episode, but that’s not to say it doesn’t boast some knock-out scenes. Principal among them...
Trailer: SUICIDE SQUAD
What’s it about? A key cog in DC Comics’ shared cinematic universe ambitions (which began with Man of Steel), Suicide Squad will directly follow Batman...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.4 – ‘Down Will Come’
We’re half way through this second season of True Detective, and one of my biggest problems remains the constant line it walks between addictive drama...
HANNIBAL, 3.6 – ‘Dolce’
“If I saw you every day, forever, I’d remember this time.” That could be a line from, say, The Notebook, but it’s actually delivered by...
Trailer: BATMAN v SUPERMAN – DAWN OF JUSTICE
What’s it about? Take a wild guess. The Caped Crusader has a score to settle with the Man of Steel, after the latter’s ruckus...
THE VOICES (2014)
Thoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium episode “The...
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK – Season Three
And now for something a little different. Orange is the New Black’s showrunner Jenji Kohan set herself a tough task following up the first two...
KNOCK KNOCK (2015)
With Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out of porn....
HUMANS – series one, episode four
After last week featured a few sloppy moments creeping in, episode four tightened things up brilliantly, pulling several of the show’s strands together and...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.3 – ‘Maybe Tomorrow’
We were firmly in David Lynch territory this week on True Detective, as a blue-lit dream sequence paid direct homage to Twin Peaks; with...
HANNIBAL, 3.5 – ‘Contorno’
A while ago, I chimed in on a Facebook debate among friends about whether Anthony Hopkins or Mads Mikkelsen is the better Hannibal Lecter...