Film, TV & Book Reviews

Protocol 1: The mission comes first. But does it? This is not your run-of-the-mill story about time travel. Instead of the whole person arriving in the 21st century to change things ...

By Philippa Tracy In an extended read of nearly 700 pages, the two eponymous protagonists, Sonia Shah and Sunny Bhatia, navigate a complex journey across two continents during which a failed ...

If you grew up in Cyprus, there is a very good chance that Jesus of Nazareth was not just a TV series to you. It was an annual event. A ...

Your Friends and Neighbours Season 2 (April 3, Apple TV+) Jon Hamm returns as Coop, the wealthy financier who lives in an upscale neighbourhood in New York and sees his whole world ...

Whereas its spiritual predecessor Yes, Minister offered a world of polished deceit and gentlemanly obstruction, The Thick of It proves rather more profane in its satire. Here, ministers are compromised, ...

Emily Nemens’ sophomore novel about millennial female friendship has garnered the sort of positive press that might be expected when the former editor of The Paris Review follows up her ...

There are a couple of series I have on rotation for casual viewing – you know, the kind you have already seen, so it feels familiar to return to. Apart from ...

I spent much of the end of 2025 and start of 2026 moaning about people who ought to know about funny books claiming that unfunny books were actually funny. Evidently, this means ...

Netflix’s live adaptation of the global manga phenomenon One Piece is, somehow, still winning. In its first season, it pulled in around 19 million viewers and managed the impossible: pleasing ...

Gilbert is not welcome in Bodkin, Ireland. Especially as an American podcaster poking his nose into affairs the locals have for years swept under the carpet. Flanked by English researcher ...

By Philippa Tracy Dominic Salt is struggling to deal with the death of his wife, Claire, nine years earlier. She died when her youngest child, Orly, was born. Since then, ...

This Sunday is the day the Hollywood industry gathers together in a theatre to congratulate themselves and hand out awards to one another. It is one of the oldest award ...

One word that comes to mind when I think of Dark Desire is obsession. This Spanish psychological thriller pulls you into a sultry, suspenseful spiral of betrayal, power and the ...

When a reviewer’s oldest friend publishes their first novel, it puts said reviewer in a potentially sticky spot from which there is only one satisfactory release: you need to ...

In a turn of events that probably signals the beginning of a battle with YouTube for online video supremacy, Netflix announced a deal last October to include video versions of ...

Boardwalk Empire was not only one of the most visually assured series of the past two decades, but in its range and sheer quality, perhaps one of the most ambitious. ...

Your response to this novel’s title, and specifically the word ‘postcolonial’, is likely to determine your subsequent enjoyment of the book. Because a novel that points knowingly at both ...

March is just around the corner, and streaming services are wheeling out the big guns to build momentum for the incoming summer blockbuster season. From icy Nordic noirs to live-action ...

In December 2010, after seven months searching for missing woman Shannon Gilbert, the remains of four other women were found on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Each was wrapped in burlap and ...

An everyday banker, with a beautiful family and a beautiful home, gets his life turned completely upside down when his drug-addicted daughter Paige goes missing. I didn’t need much ...

It’s not often that reviews start from any season other than the first, but Bridgerton warrants an exception. With four Bridgerton siblings’ – Daphne, Anthony, Colin and Francesca – stories done ...

I’ve now read all of the novels shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction aside from the two written by actual comedians (sorry, Sandi Toksvig and ...

Looking at the world around me, there seem to be only three things currently bothering people: movies depicting a state trying its absolute best to protect a predator, bunnies whose ...

Coffee Prince (2007) occupies a singular place in K-drama history. Emerging during the first Korean Wave (Hallyu), it captures the mid-2000s zeitgeist of young urban professionals navigating love, work and ...