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2017: TRUE LIFE STORIES AT THE MOVIES
There are some exciting movies to look forward to in 2017, but it some of the best may be telling stories taken straight from reality…
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SILENCE (2016)
In the 17th-century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism…
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.3 – ‘Travelers’
The third episode, “Travelers”, shows the main characters undergoing a transformation as each heads off in a separate direction. While this is slowly helping the characters to develop, the problem in this particular episode may just be the sheer amount of subplots it tries to handle in the space of an hour; jumping from each…
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SHERLOCK, 4.1 – ‘The Six Thatchers’
As is customary with Sherlock, there are a lot of red herrings to wade through in “The Six Thatchers” before even a whiff of the essential plot. Pushing aside the whole of “The Abominable Bride” and its dream palace return to the Victorian milieu of the original Conan Doyle stories, writer Mark Gatiss immediately deals…
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6 to See this January
What new movies and television shows are most deserving of your attention this month? Our editor, Dan Owen, selects his top six choices for UK audiences…
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2016’s Film & TV: Our Favourites & Disappointments
To end 2016, some of our writers have compiled their favourite and most disappointing TV shows or movies…
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DOCTOR WHO – ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’
“The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is, as Steven Moffat has acknowledged, an homage to the superhero comics of his youth, and particularly to the Richard Donner and Christopher Reeve Superman movies of the late 1970s. It’s no surprise that Moffat is again adapting established genres and narratives for this year’s Christmas Special as he has…
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.2 – ‘The Road Less Traveled’
There’s a very welcome injection of pace in “The Road Less Traveled”, the second episode of The Man in the High Castle’s second season. About time, too, as it welcomes in some character development for many of the lead and supporting players. From the off, we find out how lawyer Kasura deals with the revelation…
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FRIGHT NIGHT (1985)
When a teenage boy realises his next door neighbour is a vampire, his friends and family refuse to believe him…
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HUMANS – series two, episode eight
And so, in the end, Humans series 2 ended in the same way it began, with someone pushing a button and changing the world. Last time, Niska’s (Emily Berrington) decision to unleash the “consciousness code” upon the world only led to a smattering of synths “waking up”, but that was enough to allow Humans to…
