Film, TV & Book Reviews

Cheery-eyed and with the curiosity of an eight-year-old, Kimmy Schmidt is a likeable character. She’s fresh to New York, doesn’t swear, is out of touch with pop culture ...

At one point in Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel, her central character, Finn, feels ‘that every couple was absurd and brought out the absurdity in each other’. You might, reflecting ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on what Netflix has in store for July From sci-fi movies taking place in a ghetto to sword fighting in a backward medieval village, Netflix has a slate ...

Old favourite RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars has returned with the eighth season, which I have been keeping up with one episode a week as it is released. Queens ...

The Mimicking of Known Successes is concerned with the work of human scholars on Jupiter attempting to reconstruct life on Earth in an idealistic attempt to return to the planet ...

It’s ruthless out there but CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at how the platforms are taking each other on Welcome to another edition of our continuing coverage of the ‘Stream Wars’, ...

In this series, the characters are desperately trying to get sucked off. Wait! It isn’t what you think! Let me explain… The story begins with Jay and Samantha, who ...

‘People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence’, thinks Tom Kettle, the retired policeman whose interior monologue ...

TUDUM 2023: Constantinos Psillides looks at what to expect from the streaming behemoth The annual Netflix showcase TUDUM, named after the sound from the start of every Netflix show or movie, ...

Life by the beach is breathtakingly beautiful for the upper-class mothers in Monterey, California. But there is also the mystery surrounding the unexplored ocean and some danger involved in being ...

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 ...