Film, TV & Book Reviews

The 24-year-old YouTube prankster Fidias Panayiotou was all people talked about last week. Surprising everyone – even himself – Fidias was not only elected MEP but also managed one of the biggest ...

I heard I Kissed a Girl was queer, so I jumped right in without needing further explanations or expectations. The premise seemed simple at first: ten young women looking for ...

For eight hours a day (ish), I am a teacher, and so I find myself implicated in an ongoing struggle for direction. It is assumed, and schools and parents do ...

A siren is blaring somewhere in the distance, a high-pitched sound that nobody pays attention to anymore. Twisted metal, shattered glass and debris are all that is left of a ...

I was attracted to Blood of Zeus on Netflix because of the animation, which is very close to an anime style. The cartoon also gives a personality to the ancient ...

Some recent trends: novels about corporate corruption; novels about sham tech start-ups; cosy mystery novels. For her second novel, Emma Rosenblum has decided to jump on all three of these ...

What do you like most about summer? Is it the sun? Frolicking at the beach? Sipping a cocktail at an open-air club? Eating watermelon on your porch? Listening to the ...

Do you know Cyprus’ biggest phobia? Apparently, it’s crowds and open spaces: agoraphobia as it’s more commonly known. But we also have a healthy fear of spiders. And ...

There’s something exceptionally satisfying about a writer getting a simile right. When you read, you know that every piece of phrasing is a precise judgement, but there’s something ...

A teary-eyed Kevin Costner got up and waved at the crowd at the Cannes cinema. He had just received an 11-minute standing ovation following the world premiere of his magnum ...

After Life is a poignant exploration of life’s complexities, blending melancholy with a profound and unexpected sense of vitality. It offers a tapestry of contradictions, politically incorrect yet poetic, ...

If a historical murder mystery set in Sicily and featuring badass women across multiple generations doing it for themselves in spite of convention and circumstance sounds good to you, then ...

But a more mature edge as Regency fears of spinsterhood explored says Danielle Mariann Dove Netflix’s Regency-inspired romance series Bridgerton has returned in all its garish glory (at least ...

If you’ve never heard of the story about rescuing Europe’s artists from the Nazis, this is it. The limited series on Netflix, Transatlantic, is inspired by the true ...

If you’ve ever sat down with the Hallmark Channel on in the background (whether because this is the case, or because you’d rather not confess to ever having ...

Constantinos Psillides chooses the best of those ready for film/TV adaptions “Why is it that those who have never fought in a battle, are so eager to be in ...

How Baby Reindeer and Feel Good are forging a new television genre By Marina Deller and Kate Douglas Comedy is opening up spaces for silences to be broken and trauma ...

Pain and trauma can take many different forms. They mutate, evolve, change and directly influence our perception of reality and what might happen in the next moments of our lives. ...

Towards the end of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, Filomena, the great-souled and semi-tragic cemetery-keeper, says that ‘All stories are good stories if you find the right listener’. That an ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES takes a closer look at an Easter classic Jesus of Nazareth, the 1977 British-Italian epic TV series directed by Franco Jefirelli about the life and death of Jesus Christ, ...

Disclaimer: What follows are the opinions of someone who has NOT watched the ‘original’ Heartbreak High. While I might not fully grasp the nostalgia that some devoted fans of the 1990...

If you’re a corporation that wants to convince your customers that you’re a company on the up, and that the absence of workers on the shop floor is ...

Or does it? asks Nathan Abrams Curb Your Enthusiasm, the show that revelled in awkward social encounters and misanthropy, came to an end on April 7. Over its 12 seasons and 120 episodes, ...

When Netflix announced it was creating a live-action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender involving those who made the animated series, I could barely contain my joy. I have loved ...