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...
TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)
Fairly early into Terminator Genisys, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pops utters this line to Emilia Clarke’s Sarah Connor: “This is a meaningless gesture. To hold onto...
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL (2015)
A seven-part adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is, by all accounts, an impressively faithful rendering...
HUMANS – series one, episode three
After two very strong openings, the third instalment of Humans sees a few cracks in the veneer, and a few contrivances starting to creep...
THE AVENGERS – The Complete Series Five
Patrick Macnee was The Avengers. He was there at the very beginning when Sydney Newman, ABC’s Head of Drama, cancelled a crime drama starring...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.2 – ‘Night Finds You’
Oh, Ray, say it ain’t so! Just as I was beginning to warm to the depressed Detective Velcoro (Colin Farrell), with his vulnerabilities and...
HANNIBAL, 3.4 – ‘Aperitivo’
The news that NBC has decided not to renew Hannibal for a fourth season is disappointing but no surprise. Frankly, it’s remarkable that a...
MINIONS (2015)
The question Minions needed to answer was whether the cute Despicable Me critters are compelling and amusing enough to carry their own film. It’s hard to...