OUT 1 (1971)
[usr 5.0] Jacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
[usr 5.0] While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to...
MR. ROBOT – Season One
[usr 5.0] There are some shows that make you sit up after the first episode and exclaim: ‘what was that I just watched?’ It’s...
HEAT (1995)
[usr 5.0] Michael Mann’s Heat is essentially a ‘cops and robbers’ story. But, of course, it’s also a hell of a lot more than...
THE KNICK, 2.8 – ‘Not Well At All’
[usr 5.0] As “Not Well At All” unfolds, it quickly becomes the funniest episode of the season. It also happens to be the best...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Ten’
[usr 5.0] Oh, how I love a bleak finale. Hats off to You, Me & The Apocalypse’s creator Iain Hollands, who after 10 weeks...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.8 – ‘International Assassin’
[usr 5.0] I don’t think anybody expected The Leftovers to kill its protagonist, Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), last week—after he drank poison at the...
YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE – ‘Episode Eight’
[usr 5.0] Well, that was an episode and a half! Ever since You, Me & The Apocalypse began I’ve said viewing it as a...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.7 – ‘A Most Powerful Adversary’
[usr 5.0] A lot of The Leftovers is about ordinary people seeking explanations for extraordinary events, and the lure of accepting outlandish theories that...
BRAZIL (1985)
[usr 5.0] Bureaucracy on film is a subject that, for obvious reasons, has always been best approached by filmmakers working under authoritarian governments, specifically...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.5 – ‘No Room at the Inn’
[usr 5.0] It’s time for Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) to have his turn in the limelight, and my expectations were high because a...
THE LEFTOVERS, 2.1 – ‘Axis Mundi’
[usr 5.0] The first season of HBO fantasy drama The Leftovers was a hit with critics, but audiences were less receptive. It’s easy to...