Film, TV & Book Reviews

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES recommends five watches about aliens to stream When Chris Carter first conceived the tagline for the legendary X-Files, he could not have guessed what an impact it would ...

I was expecting Dear Child (Netflix) to be the story of people kept locked in a basement (along the lines of the likes of Room), starting as it does with ...

There was always going to be a novel about AI’s potential for replacing human authors. Not that I’d thought of it before, but when I came across Do ...

Forget about what is happening around us and view one of these suggests CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES This has been a bad week for humanity overall. The massacre at the music festival ...

So many period pieces have come and gone, but That 70s Show still holds up as one of the most iconic. The sitcom, which ran from 1998 to 2006, was an in-depth ...

‘Whenever people interact, that is being part of society. And the things that happen as a result of those points of contact exist in the past and the future.’ When ...

Spooktober is upon us and streaming giant Netflix has a lot of original content ready to hit your screen this month says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Lupin Part 3 Omar Sy is back ...

Following the lives of convicted felons is not typically the way I spend my evenings. I have never been a true-crime fan, so when the sudden desire came to watch ...

‘…what woman has not, walking in the dark of the street or along a path deep in the countryside, sensed the brutal imaginings of a man watching her from his ...

After a move that could have ended the strike as it began, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES says we can now look forward to shows coming back The writers’ strike that brought film ...

Law expert Dale Mitchell ranks legal dramas by their accuracy FROM Elle Woods in Legally Blonde to Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird to Denny ...

The Chosen One is a tale about a boy that displays similar powers and miracles to those of Jesus in the Bible, but this time in Mexico. The show, set ...

The story of a queer, working class Nigerian boy being taken out of poverty by publishing a novel of what he calls ‘queer resistance’ that he had to hand write ...

30 years after it first aired, the show has left a legacy says Bethan Jones On September 10, 1993 the pilot episode of The X-Files aired. Thirty years later to the day, I ...

Am I the only person who’d never heard of One Piece before this year?! Turns out this rollicking oceanic fantasy is based on one of the longest-running anime series ...

If you’ve ever traded pretentious philosobabble across a sticky table in a dingy university bar, you are likely to be familiar with the way in which people willingly trapped ...

Trying to decide on a new series to invest time in? CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES suggests four released this month that are definitely worth your attention The Wheel of Time, season 2 (Prime) ...

A mother, a friend, a professional, a scheming mastermind – women keep trying to have it all. And Erin Carter is no exception. The only question is: who is this British ...

Late on in SA Cosby’s Southern gothic thriller, sheriff Titus Crown reflects that, ‘violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain’. There’s plenty of ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on shows to watch to bring the high seas to life Ahoy mateys! Arrrrrrrrgh! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Get ready to walk the plank! Sorry. Too ...

Imagine a TV show that features a well-known and readily available medicial drug as the main antagonist. Not a fictional story, but a faithful account of events that actually happened. ...

In Guided Tour, perhaps the most viscerally striking of Millhauser’s latest collection of short stories, the tour guide from AuthentiTour warns his 17 tourists to ‘beware of stories. Stories have ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES picks what he considers the four most rewatchable scenes from recent shows As you probably already know, both writers and actors are currently on strike asking for fair ...

Remember the Truman Show? Okay, now take that, combine it with a hidden camera prank show, and place it all within the mockumentary genre. What you get is Jury Duty, ...