DOCTOR WHO, 10.5 – ‘Oxygen’
[usr 4.5] If you’ve been paying attention over the last five episodes of Doctor Who you’ll have noticed certain themes cropping up. There have...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.4 – ‘Knock Knock’
[usr 4.0] “Well, you don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters,” claims Nardole (Matt Lucas) at the conclusion of Mike Bartlett’s...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.3 – ‘Thin Ice’
[usr 4.0] I was half expecting Stevie Wonder to show up in “Thin Ice”, writer Sarah Dollard’s contribution to this year’s series of Doctor...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.2 – ‘Smile’
[usr 3.5] If the theme of robots becoming sentient seems familiar in “Smile”, the second episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who, then...
CLIQUE – Series One
Childhood friends Georgia and Holly are a few weeks into studying at university in Edinburgh, when Georgia finds herself drawn into an elite circle of alpha females, led by lecturer Jude McDermid...
DOCTOR WHO, 10.1 – ‘The Pilot’
[usr 4.0] There’s a marvellous composition right at the start of this week’s Doctor Who that speaks volumes. As “The Pilot” begins and Bill...
TABOO – Series One
[usr 4.0] Taboo is the kind of show that divides people. For every person who loves it passionately (revelling in the mud, muck, and...
John Hurt: Imagination’s Victim
I cannot say enough good things about John Hurt. What he did is just glorious. His character is so fantastic. It’s a human-being thing;...
SHERLOCK, 4.3 – ‘The Final Problem’
[usr 3.5] If this is the end of Sherlock then, I have to say, so be it. In this fourth series, it has eschewed...
SHERLOCK, 4.2 – ‘The Lying Detective’
[usr 4.5] Sherlock’s almost manic necessity for tricky narrative transition calms down a bit this week, fortunately. There are less wipes, dissolves, and multiple...
SHERLOCK, 4.1 – ‘The Six Thatchers’
[usr 4.0] As is customary with Sherlock, there are a lot of red herrings to wade through in “The Six Thatchers” before even a...
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…