Film, TV & Book Reviews

I don’t know what it says about the depth of my Raymond Chandler fandom that I find even a poor imitation to be worth reading. Maybe I should deride ...

The question of who was the better bruiser actor has finally been answered says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Which WWE wrestler did you love more, Hulk Hogan or Ultimate Warrior? Which alien ...

“This is a true story. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it ...

If someone ever says to you, ‘I swear, it was never as psychopathic as it sounds’, you can be immediately certain of two things: one, it absolutely was that psychopathic; ...

Netflix doc seeks to reclaim model’s legacy, despite problematic contributors says DAISY MCMANAMAN Who was Anna Nicole Smith? In a new Netflix documentary, Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t ...

There are two things I love watching on TV, British series and Nordic noirs. I realise there is no link between them, the latter is a very specific genre while ...

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault argues that the modern penal system aims to make its objects into ‘docile bodies’ through the shift away from punishment as a public spectacle and ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks back on a period when four well-loved TV shows came to an end It was bad. Really bad. Going through it was borderline torture and should be ...

A semester abroad eating, drinking and meeting Italian lovers. That is what I thought From Scratch was going to be about. A light-hearted series about a carefree woman in Italy ...

Words make promises that we’re too often left scrambling to fulfil. In Jessica George’s debut novel, the word that’s dragged her protagonist, Madeleine Wright, behind it for ...

After a raucous Pride weekend, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on shows that get into the spirit of it Join me in diving into a world full of colour, love, a ton of ...

Relationships between fathers and sons can be complicated things, but Jack Whitehall’s: Travels With My Father highlights the funny side in heart-warming trips around the world shared by the ...

In the course of Shy, Max Porter’s fourth novel, the eponymous first-person narrator identifies the following languages: ‘night-end’, ‘badger’ and ‘heartsore’. It’s telling of a book about how ...

As the heat of summer approaches CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES suggest six shows to stream and cool down with Just like Glenn Frey predicted back in 1984, the heat is on, and summer ...

Marple is my rainy day go-to. I’m a huge fan of cosy mysteries (Cadfael, Agatha Raisin, The Thursday Murder Club) – of brain-teasing fun without the gratuitous guts, gore and ...

A good writer can write a bad book, but that doesn’t mean we have to forgive them for it. In Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh shows off her capacity to ...

In a world that seems to be going mad CONSTANTINOS PSILIIDES picks shows to watch where it is even worse Barren wastelands, an irradiated atmosphere, the collapse of civilization, the ...

This is not your typical 80s show, albeit it is set in that decade. Young Sheldon differs greatly from the popular series aired during that time. First of all, it ...

‘Guilty pleasure’ really is a stupid phrase – unless of course what you take pleasure in is something truly awful like kicking kittens or tax fraud. Surely, we should all just ...

Recently divorced Toby Fleishman is a successful hepatologist in New York City adjusting to his newly single life through the world of online dating. His unexpected success, which he never ...

From The Real Housewives of Orange County to Yellowstone, the lives of the immensely rich seem to have a hold over the popular imagination that allows almost any cultural production ...

After a surprise teaser promises a new season CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks back on the best so far Netflix fans were greeted with a most fantastic surprise this week, as the ...

First things first: True Detective spans four seasons and I’ve only managed to watch the first one so far. No matter how great or not the first instalment is (...

In her acknowledgements, Claire Jimenez writes that ‘colonialism, racism, and femicide have been forces that shaped my reality and the way I am seen or not seen in this world’. ...