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’
The penultimate episode is usually where Game of Thrones would flex its ‘action movie’ muscles, by throwing a good portion of the budget at...
GAME OF THRONES, 7.1 – ‘Dragonstone’
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 this year...
VINYL, 1.1 – ‘Pilot’
How you respond to Vinyl will almost certainly depend on your tolerance for that great staple of cable television: the heavily conflicted white male...
PAN (2015)
Early reviews suggested that Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel (which purports to tell how he became The Boy Who Never Grew Up) was a...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.4 – ‘Before the Flood’
The TARDIS feeling grumpy about temporal anomalies, and the tolling of the Cloister Bell, do not prepare you for the mind-scrambling deconstruction of the...
DOCTOR WHO, 9.3 – ‘Under the Lake’
The strongest opening for a series of Doctor Who in a while continues with Toby Whithouse’s “Under the Lake”. Series 9 may not be...
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL (2015)
A seven-part adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is, by all accounts, an impressively faithful rendering...