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THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1975)
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming-of-age and growing into old age in conservative England.
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RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (2016)
Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse…
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.9 – ‘Empress of Mars’
If this is his last appointment with the man in the blue box, then clearly writer Mark Gatiss had a field day with this week’s Doctor Who, “Empress of Mars”. Right from the pre-titles scene in NASA mission control, he’s packing in references to many of his favourite things. To begin with the Valkyrie probe’s…
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LES DIABOLIQUE (1955)
The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; but after the deed is done, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague them…
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MADHOUSE (1981)
A teacher, employed by a school for the deaf, has a surprise birthday party crashed by her deformed and crazy sister…
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AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
American Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it hard to love. It can feel like it’s holding its audience at a distance, and that makes it much more difficult to root for or understand the characters. You can also almost never…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.8 — ‘Slip’
This was a deceptively clever episode, helping connect some dots between the present-day Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and his Slippin’ Jimmy days back in Chicago, pulling cons with his best-friend Marco (Mel Rodriguez). The cold open was a flashback to a time when Jimmy and Marco recovered some old coins from his father’s abandoned store,…
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THE LEFTOVERS, 3.8 — ‘The Book of Nora’
This wasn’t what I imagined the series finale of The Leftovers would be, but that’s a compliment. Considering showrunner Damon Lindelof’s repeated quote that viewers shouldn’t expect answers to the show’s key question (where did 2% of the population vanish to?), I was pleased we did get an answer to that — well, perhaps — while avoiding the trickier…
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10 Cannes Films to See in 2017
The 70th Cannes Film Festival concluded on 28 May with a glittering awards ceremony. The films picked by Cannes will inevitably land on many people’s must-watch lists, so here are 10 movies from Cannes 2017 to keep on your radar…
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.8 – ‘The Lie of the Land’
There’s a line in this week’s Doctor Who, “The Lie of the Land”, that made me smile. It was a smile in recognition that the series, in its 1970s heyday, was equally unafraid to slip in subtexts about the politics of the times. “The Monks have got him on one of the old prison boats.…
