STEVE JOBS (2015)
Biopics tend to follow a painfully familiar template. Frequently, out of an eagerness to not miss a single detail, films based on real events...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Room 33’
With Jessica Lange having left the repertory cast of American Horror Story, the show has taken a more ensemble-driven approach this season than ever before, with varying...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Seven’
Watching You, Me & The Apocalypse this week it occurred to me that what I love about this show is its humanity. It’s a drama...
SPY (2015)
When she was a kid, Susan Cooper’s (Melissa McCarthy) mother used to leave a note in her lunchbox each day that read: “Give up...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.6 – ‘Lens’
There were a lot of revelations in the mid-season “Lens”. Personal secrets were revealed, and some of the oddness about ‘Jardenian’ culture and its...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.8 – ‘The Zygon Inversion’
As many have commented, the opening scenes of this week’s Doctor Who uncomfortably mirror the suspected terrorist bombing of Russian passenger Metrojet 9268, which crashed in...
THE KNICK, 2.4 – ‘Wonderful Surprises’
The Knick season two has had a reliably strong start, but “Wonderful Surprises” sees the pace drop ever so slightly, and highlights an issue...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Room Service’
It’s not an accident I haven’t written much about Liz Taylor (Denis O’Hare), the barkeep at the Hotel Cortez, so far in my reviews...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Six’
Well, excuse me while I get my breath back because that was quite an episode of You, Me & The Apocalypse! Everything kicked off...
BRAZIL (1985)
Bureaucracy on film is a subject that, for obvious reasons, has always been best approached by filmmakers working under authoritarian governments, specifically in Eastern...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.5 – ‘No Room at the Inn’
It’s time for Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) to have his turn in the limelight, and my expectations were high because a favourite episode...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Five’
We’re at the halfway point in Iain Hollands’ inventive You, Me & The Apocalypse, and, perhaps understandably, this episode aimed to give everyone a...