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CATASTROPHE – Series Three
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s semi-biographical sitcom Catastrophe recently returned to Channel 4 for its third series. Named after a quote from Zorba the Greek (“I’m a man so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe!”), the show follows husband and wife Rob and Sharon Morris as they contend with the trials and…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.1 – ‘Mabel’
I know too many people who gave up on Better Call Saul during its first season, either because it wasn’t enough like Breaking Bad for their liking, or they just had a hard time identifying with Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and didn’t particularly care about his arc. It’s a shame this spin-off naturally breeds such…
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THE CITY OF THE DEAD (1960)
A young woman uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England, but upon arriving in the village of Whitewood she finds herself “marked” for sacrifice by an undead coven of witches…
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CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959)
Archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins release a gelatinous monster, during a time when a doomsday comet has returned in the sky…
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LEGION – Season One
Noah Hawley’s Legion is a hard show to classify. It can, at least on some level, be seen as a superhero drama (as it’s based on an X-Men comic book spin-off character), but it doesn’t fit neatly into a single box. It’s defined by weirdness and ambition, a constantly disorienting narrative with unpredictable twists and turns, and an…
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PIECES (1982)
Young co-eds are dismembered by a mysterious murderer on a college campus, who is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts…
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6 to See this April 2017
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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GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017)
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals.
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SOLARIS (1972)
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
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SHADOWS AND FOG (1991)
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
