THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the...
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While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the...
There are some shows that make you sit up after the first episode and exclaim: ‘what was that I just watched?’ It’s the reaction...
Michael Mann’s Heat is essentially a ‘cops and robbers’ story. But, of course, it’s also a hell of a lot more than that. Unlike...
As “Not Well At All” unfolds, it quickly becomes the funniest episode of the season. It also happens to be the best episode, delivering...
Oh, how I love a bleak finale. Hats off to You, Me & The Apocalypse’s creator Iain Hollands, who after 10 weeks of expertly...
I don’t think anybody expected The Leftovers to kill its protagonist, Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), last week—after he drank poison at the behest of...
Well, that was an episode and a half! Ever since You, Me & The Apocalypse began I’ve said viewing it as a straight-forward comedy...
A lot of The Leftovers is about ordinary people seeking explanations for extraordinary events, and the lure of accepting outlandish theories that avoid common...
Bureaucracy on film is a subject that, for obvious reasons, has always been best approached by filmmakers working under authoritarian governments, specifically in Eastern...
It’s time for Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) to have his turn in the limelight, and my expectations were high because a favourite episode...
The first season of HBO fantasy drama The Leftovers was a hit with critics, but audiences were less receptive. It’s easy to see why,...
If you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of space, surely...