Film, TV & Book Reviews

With a great, Asian-led cast, The Brothers Sun has a great mafia plot line but is also comical. I enjoyed being able to laugh, while also remaining entertained by the ...

Jason Jones and Beatrice Trefalt offer an insight into new film on complexity of Japan’s war memories The new hit Japanese film Godzilla Minus One – an homage to Honda ...

In keeping with my apparently unavoidable tendency to do things the wrong way round, my first Jack Reacher novel also happens to be the latest of the 28 that Lee Child (...

We all love a real-life horror story. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at those yet to make it to the screen We love true crime. People think that this fascination with the ...

I looked up Cyprus’ murder rate for this! According to the United Nations, our island ranks 175th in the world for homicides; not bad, given that 206 countries are listed. Certainly, ...

There are events in everyone’s lives that leave them feeling irrevocably altered afterwards. In passing through these times, we inevitably leave something behind at the same time as we ...

Sam Edwards suggests films and TV shows about US air force’s ‘friendly invasion’ New Apple TV series Masters of the Air tells the story of the famed 100th Bomb ...

It’s the nightmare every parent fears but dares not imagine: the revelation that your baby was switched at birth with someone else’s. This is where the harrowing journey ...

I’m a bit annoyed that I didn’t really like The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass. First, it’s called The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass and that’s ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at six Emmy snubs that really beggar belief The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards wrapped up this week, the third major award ceremony after Golden Globes and the ...

Sports docuseries owe it all to Drive To Survive and The Last Dance. Without them, even the most spectacular, and impactful ones wouldn’t have stood a chance in the ...

I would struggle to resist a satirical campus novel at the best of times, but when a satirical campus novel comes along in which the central edifice is obviously meant ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at the unsung heroes whose life stories are calling out for a biopic Hollywood has always looked to history for inspiration. Oppenheimer, the story of how the ...

Harlan Coben has written an exhaustive number of novels and Netflix seems hell bent on bringing many of them to the small screen with varying degrees of success (they have ...

I don’t know whether choosing to read the sequel of a book that I found offensively awful is behaviour that would be categorised as morbid curiosity or sadomasochism, but ...

High budget entertainment came at us from all directions in 2023, but it wasn’t a winner for everyone says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Who won? Who lost? Which service achieved its yearly ...

This is the story behind that little green app on everyone’s phones – Spotify. The Swedish TV series shows how the streaming platform was created and how it revolutionised the ...

What makes a good baddie asks CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES crying out for more of them to create good movies WARNING: Minor spoilers for Rebel Moon In Zack Snyder’s space opera ...

The title of this piece is obviously a lie. I don’t know what the best books of 2023 are. But I do have some books that, when I look back ...

I may be a little bit late to the party but I have recently I watched The Night Agent on Netflix, and was fully drawn in by the plot, the ...

Having recently read a spy novel also published by Simon & Schuster, which fell disappointingly short of the bar set by genre-definers like Le Carré and Greene, I was tentative ...

It’s been a good year for TV. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks back at what you should have watched This year has been a great one for television! Despite the writers’ ...

Retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially for Agatha Raisin. But then she plumped for the Cotswolds rather than Cyprus. Where there are, apparently, rather more ...

Stereotypically, we’re not short on warmth in Cyprus. We have over 300 sunny days per year, and there are lots of contexts in which we do our best to live ...