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LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Season One
A Series of Unfortunate Events occupies an interesting position as a story that’s simultaneously charming and dark. There are very few other tales that boast this balance of traits, so the specificity of its tone is absolutely key. It’s the second time around that this narrative’s been adapted from the original novels by Lemony Snicket…
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RAISING CAIN (1992)
The wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware her husband suffers from multiple personality disorder…
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘Kintsugi’ & ‘Land O’Smiles’
“Kintsugi” With episode 6 we enter the post-Frank Spotnitz version of The Man in the High Castle, where the showrunner baton has been handed temporarily to, among others, executive producers David Zucker and Isa Dick Hackett. What’s noticeable in this episode is how the series has taken on aspects of melodrama and, for want of…
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T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017)
Renton returns to Scotland after two decades living in Amsterdam, to be reacquainted with friends and enemies from his youth…
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HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)
True story of an American soldier who refused to kill during WWII, but whose bravery resulted in him becoming the first person in US history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot…
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THE OA – Season One
I love a good mystery, but the concern with ongoing TV mysteries, as opposed to movies or books, is they’re often designed to last for years. And it’s difficult to keep a mystery engaging for that long, so others questions are often added to complicate matters and perhaps fill some time. Sometimes this approach works…
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COHEN & TATE (1988)
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other’s throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed.
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘Escalation’ & ‘Duck and Cover’
“Escalation” Episode 4 is another packed instalment that leaps from subplot to subplot but, considering the title, it lacks something of the energy that kept the equally fragmentary “Travelers” driving along. Trade minister Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) has disappeared from his office. He finds himself in a very different world; one full of light and cherry blossoms and…
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GIRLS – Season Five
HBO’s Girls started as an Emmy darling. It was bold and it had something to say, but now it appears to be a Conservative whipping boy that might just go down in history for being the TV show that made Adam Driver famous. The show never reached the heights of Sex and the City — and, now…
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KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (2016)
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
