THE MARTIAN (2015)
[usr 5.0] If you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of...
THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Autumn’
[usr 5.0] Sunday night, 9pm, is a TV timeslot made for the warm bubblebath that is Downton Abbey. It’s a time of the week...
SHOW ME A HERO – Part Five & Six
[usr 5.0] It may have taken its title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quote “Show me a hero and I’ll show you a tragedy” but...
HANNIBAL, 3.13 – ‘The Wrath of the Lamb’
[usr 5.0] “The bluff is eroding. There was more land when I was here with Abigail. More land still when I was here with Miriam...
SHOW ME A HERO – Part Three
[usr 5.0] Things got ever more sticky for our increasingly beleaguered hero this week as Nick (Oscar Isaac) found himself desperately trying to save...
SHOW ME A HERO – Part One
[usr 5.0] Hello, and welcome to David Simon’s (The Wire) newest show: a six-part HBO miniseries set in Yonkers during the 1980s, which is also the...
INSIDE OUT (2015)
[usr 5] It’s hard to imagine there’ll be a film this year as inventive and audacious as Pixar’s newest offering Inside Out. That might...
HANNIBAL, 3.6 – ‘Dolce’
[usr 5] “If I saw you every day, forever, I’d remember this time.” That could be a line from, say, The Notebook, but it’s actually...
INHERENT VICE (2014)
[usr 5.0] I’m not sure exactly where to begin with Inherent Vice—I’ve seen it twice now, and I haven’t completely wrapped my head around it,...