Film, TV & Book Reviews

Food, friendship, rivalry and a glimpse of Indonesian culture. In a nutshell, that is how I would sum up the new Netflix show, Made with Love. In eight short episodes, ...

One of the best lines in one of the best books I read last year is, ‘If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.’ That’...

The film Ta Kalanta ton Hristougennon (The Christmas Carols) is celebrating a major milestone, having earned six nominations at the Iris Awards 2026 of the Hellenic Film Academy. The nominations span ...

Summer is here, and with it comes blessed air conditioning, Sundays at the beach and streaming services’ big guns. June and July are blockbuster months, and we are here to ...

By Philippa Tracy Kairos starts with Katharina learning about the death of a former lover, Hans. She cites the ancient Greek, Kairos, “the god of fortunate moments,” when she asks, ...

If I told you that a book started with weather-based small-talk and crisps at the pub and ended with speculations on the lifespan of a rickety boiler, you might feel ...

By Tom Cleaver in Mumbai A Bollywood film will be shot in Cyprus for the first time in the coming months, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Wednesday evening, as the ...

Created by Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, the NBC comedy used the mockumentary format to follow the Parks Department of fictional Pawnee, Indiana, building a series defined by character chemistry, ...

Sometimes films will go to unnecessary lengths to ensure realism and elicit actual emotions from audiences, even when it comes down to the most minute details. Most of the time ...

Starring Gary Oldman with his toes poking through holes in his socks, I needed no more persuading to watch this brilliant series, which starts off with him startling himself awake ...

By Simon Demetriou I’m pretty sure I’ve never described a book as rollicking before. Rollicking isn’t typically one of my words. But Go Gentle is rollicking. And ...

Fighting games are once more taking a crack at the big screen this season. Mortal Kombat II, starring Keith Urban, hits the box office first, followed by Street Fighter, releasing ...

One word that comes to mind when I think of Love Rat is magnificent. This drama blends romance with deception, pulling you into a story that feels light at first, ...

By Philippa Tracy Reading this book took me back to the start of the Covid pandemic and the time just before lockdowns when the world became, as the writer says, “...

Ever been so sure about something that even when you are proven wrong, you still can’t believe it? Not because of fanaticism, just because you were so, SO sure ...

I admit, I didn’t love it at first. Sara Bareilles drew me in. You know the one, she is the singer who wrote the hit Love Song in 2007, stars ...

In Transcription, Ben Lerner’s narrator refers early on to a seminal moment in his life when he was taken to see Harvard’s glass flowers and began to develop ...

Remarkably Bright Creatures Sometimes, the only thing you need to say to convince me to watch a show is just a few words. Especially if those words are: “wise, gentle ...

One word that comes to mind when I think of Untamed is twisted. This psychological thriller bridges two worlds: the external suspense of a thriller and an internal complex of ...

By Philippa Tracy I didn’t really know that Western noir was a genre until I got tipped off about C William Langsfeld’s debut novel. Now, I feel foolish ...

By Constantinos Psillides There was a time when San Diego ComicCon was the undisputed arena for studios to flex their upcoming slates. Fans, cosplay, surprise appearances, Hall H hysteria, the ...

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 ...