Film, TV & Book Reviews

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 ...

Just when you thought a new show might steal the title, all hope is lost finds CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Constantinos plans, God laughs. This was supposed to be a feel-good story ...

In the world of nutritional uncertainty, Zooey Deschanel takes over the reins in her latest venture, What Am I Eating?, challenging long-standing food myths and unravelling the mysteries behind our ...

During the christening of her granddaughter, Ruth, the protagonist of Loved and Missed, tries to calm the rage welling up inside her at the fact that her daughter, Eleanor, had ...

They may be hackneyed but the sheer number of schmaltzy festive films shows they have a market says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES It’s the holiday season. People are somewhat happier, there’...

I have never even considered watching an anime series, let alone love it. Well, that’s now the old me! Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai completely changed my mind, as ...

Given the proliferation of books about or set during the pandemic, it seems I’m in the minority when it comes to finding the idea of a novel about people ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at the goodies in store for fans Streaming platforms are deep into the holiday mood, queuing up some major releases for December. Percy Jackson Disney+, December 20 It’...

If you love period dramas but feel they’re a bit too serious, you’ll love The Great. Hulu’s ‘anti-historical’ drama-comedy defies the unwritten rules of making a period ...

In IS Berry’s debut spy thriller, her protagonist, 52 and at the tail-end of his career in espionage, finds himself reflecting more and more on his ability to ‘do the ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks forward to a new two-part film promising to be an adult take on Star Wars No matter your opinion on director Zack Snyder (love him, hate him ...

I know, I am a little late to the party. Sixteen years (and a reboot) late to be exact as Gossip Girl was released in 2007. But when I finally gave ...

Once again, I find myself doing things the wrong way round. Often, I’ve reviewed the latest book by an author with whose back catalogue I have been painfully unfamiliar. ...

The franchise has sacrificed quality for quantity leaving CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES joining other viewers in turning off In the 2021 movie Eternals, a group of super-powerful ancient aliens face a newborn Celestial – ...

While I enjoy many TV shows, I always seem to fall back on watching old favourites like The Big Bang Theory. I fell in love with the show when it ...

In The Merchant of Venice, Portia says that ‘I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching’. ...

If you’ve been charmed by the latest Netflix anime, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES suggest what to watch next If you watch as much TV as I do, there comes a point ...

In a galaxy this far, far away, it’s easy to get lost. Back in the good old days, there were three Star Wars films, which we all watched and ...

When a co-worker turns the handle on the door that usually leads to a closet, opening it to reveal a terrace that definitely wasn’t there before, Annie and Edward, ...

The same faces keep cropping up. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES picks his favourite character actors How many times have you been watching a film and suddenly an actor comes on screen who ...

In the not-so-distant future, where technology blurs the lines between life and death, this English-language series serves as a sharp social commentary while offering a fresh perspective on the classic ...