JANE GOT A GUN (2016)
The Western is a genre that resolutely refuses to ride off into the sunset. Despite an increasing distance from the era—when America’s west was...
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)
Marvel films have gone big before. They’ve launched an alien invasion onto New York for The Avengers, seen half of London uprooted in Thor:...
VINYL, 1.10 – ‘Alibi’
The final episode of Vinyl’s first season was also the last to be written by co-creator Terence Winter, who will be replaced for the...
OUTLANDER, 2.2 – ‘Not in Scotland Anymore’
And so, rather like The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy, Outlander’s Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) find themselves over the English Channel,...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 2.10 – ‘Klick’
It’s a little miracle that Better Call Saul can deliver such a fantastic season finale, without the need for anything particularly earth-shattering to happen....
HAP AND LEONARD – Season One
Hap and Leonard, the latest US crime series to find its way to Amazon Video in the UK, is something of an odd beast....
HUSH (2016)
A fleeting glance of Hush while browsing Netflix and you’d be forgiven for having a reflexive urge to keep scrolling. ‘A young woman living...
THE AMERICANS, 4.5 – ‘Clark’s Place’
After the shocking ending of last week’s episode, “Clark’s Place” was an episode for The Americans to do its customary thing, after a major story...
THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
It’s easy to condemn Disney for adapting its animations into live-action, as it seems like a creatively bankrupt endeavour, but the success of 2015’s...
OUTLANDER, 2.1 – ‘Through A Glass, Darkly’
Readers of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander novels were in for a bit of a surprise this week with the broadcast of “Through A Glass, Darkly”, season...
VINYL, 1.8-9 – ‘E.A.B’ & ‘Rock & Roll Queen’
I don’t know whether I’m suffering from full-blown Stockholm system, or whether Vinyl has improved tremendously over the course of its run, but I...
BETTER CALL SAUL, 2.9 – ‘Nailed’
Given the title “Nailed”, you’d be forgiven for thinking the big climax of Better Call Saul’s penultimate hour would involve an exciting set-piece where...