Film, TV & Book Reviews

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 ...

It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jhumpa Lahiri’s work that her latest collection of short stories deals with people who are out of place, detached ...

CONSTANINOS PSILLIDES is happy to binge on a new UK thriller on Netflix I’m a simple man, with simple needs and simple habits. To that effect, when I see ...

Whether you’re a football enthusiast, a devoted supporter of an English team, or just a fan of gossip, it’s impossible not to have come across stories, rumours, or ...

There’s nothing wrong with a murder mystery, so when I say that The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is both more and less than a murder mystery, I’m ...

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 ...