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Competition: Win LION on Blu-ray!
In LION, five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train travelling away from his home and family. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, escaping all sorts of terrors and close calls in the process, before ending up in an orphanage that is…
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13 REASONS WHY – Season One
With recent news of a second season pickup for 13 Reasons Why, there’s no better time to look at the first season and decide whether you should be adding it your Netflix watchlist. 13 Reasons Why is based on Jay Asher’s book, published in 2007, which has been widely discussed over the years due to…
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AMERICAN GODS, 1.2 – ‘The Secret of Spoons’
Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is not having a good week. After narrowly surviving a lynching at the end of the first episode of American Gods, he now finds himself losing a high-stakes game of checkers and facing the prospect of a gruesome death at the conclusion of the second. He’s gone from hearing the shocking…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.5 – ‘Chicanery’
For a show described as a legal comedy-drama, Better Call Saul has spent very little time in a court of law. The character of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) thrives during the pre-trial wheeling-and-dealing, preferring to settle things before a judge and jury have to get involved. That’s one reason it’s such a refreshing “lawyer show” — not…
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THE LEFTOVERS, 3.4 – ‘G’Day Melbourne’
After last week’s remarkable mystical adventure with Kevin Garvey Sr. (Scott Glenn), it was the turn of his son for “G’Day Melbourne”, as Kevin (Justin Theroux) got embroiled in a more suburban and emotionally devastating escapade of his own. While Kevin and Nora (Carrie Coon) excitedly flew to Oz together, there were early signs their relationship’s on the rocks,…
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A MONSTER CALLS (2016)
A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother’s terminal illness.
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.4 – ‘Knock Knock’
“Well, you don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters,” claims Nardole (Matt Lucas) at the conclusion of Mike Bartlett’s “Knock Knock”. Indeed, this week’s Doctor Who again confirms how the show’s format enjoys frequent visits to the hallowed halls of contemporary Gothic horror. The haunted house story is a rich vein that’s…
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THE VOID (2016)
Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.
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BRAIN DAMAGE (1988)
A man wakes to find a creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem, giving him feelings of euphoria in exchange for human victims…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.4 – ‘Sabrosito’
If Jimmy’s (Bob Odenkirk) half of the show isn’t your favourite, which is something of a problem for a show that’s ostensibly about his backstory, chances are “Sabrosito” worked very well for you. Half the hour was taken up by Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), shedding light on the bad blood between him and Hector Salamanca…
