YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Four’
First off, apologies to everyone for the late arrival of this recap, which was down to unavoidable personal circumstances. With that out of the...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.6 – ‘The Woman Who Lived’
Immortality. It’s a bugger, isn’t it? Doctor Who, in both its classic and current incarnations, keeps returning to that age old philosophical debate about...
THE KNICK, 2.2 – ‘You’re No Rose’
After an opening episode that was primarily focused on resetting the board after the end of the first season, getting everyone back at the...
TOMORROWLAND (2015)
One of this summer’s biggest box-office disappointments was Disney’s Tomorrowland, from director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, Ratatouille). It made $208m worldwide, but cost...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Mommy’
With Jessica Lange having left American Horror Story‘s impressive repertory cast, Hotel is proving to be more of an ensemble-driven story than recent years. Judging by this...
POLTERGEIST (2015)
Tobe Hooper’s original Poltergeist is a great film and the story of its production has become legend, so even a good remake’s doomed to sit in its shade....
Fact to the Future: 30 BACK TO THE FUTURE Facts
Great Scott! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future—which technically happened last July, but is being celebrated more on 21 October...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.3 – ‘Off Ramp’
If there was one aspect of last season that split opinion the most, in favour of outright hatred from viewers, it was the Guilty...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.5 – ‘The Girl Who Died’
Maisie Williams isn’t playing Susan, Romana, The Rani, Jenny, or any other returning female time-traveller. There, that’s my review written. Really, that’s nearly everything...
THE KNICK, 2.1 – ‘Ten Knots’
In its first season, The Knick was a series more interesting than it had any right to be. Set during the turn of the...
BEASTS OF NO NATION (2015)
Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director, writer, producer and cinematographer of Beasts of No Nation, has an eye for striking images. Which is a good...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Chutes and Ladders’
In the first two (and best) seasons of American Horror Story, there’s a point in the first few episodes where the disparate, seemingly haphazard plot...