THE GHOUL (2016)
A detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder, but his therapy blurs the lines between fantasy and reality...
GAME OF THRONES, 7.6 – ‘Beyond the Wall’
[usr 3.5] The penultimate episode is usually where Game of Thrones would flex its ‘action movie’ muscles, by throwing a good portion of the...
GAME OF THRONES, 7.1 – ‘Dragonstone’
[usr 3.5] It’s the beginning of the end for HBO’s all-conquering fantasy Game of Thrones, which begins a bisected final season, with just 7 episodes...
VINYL, 1.1 – ‘Pilot’
[usr 3.0] How you respond to Vinyl will almost certainly depend on your tolerance for that great staple of cable television: the heavily conflicted...
PAN (2015)
[usr 2.5] Early reviews suggested that Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel (which purports to tell how he became The Boy Who Never Grew Up)...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.4 – ‘Before the Flood’
[usr 3.0] The TARDIS feeling grumpy about temporal anomalies, and the tolling of the Cloister Bell, do not prepare you for the mind-scrambling deconstruction...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.3 – ‘Under the Lake’
[usr 3.5] The strongest opening for a series of Doctor Who in a while continues with Toby Whithouse’s “Under the Lake”. Series 9 may...
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL (2015)
[usr 3.0] A seven-part adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is, by all accounts, an impressively...