Film, TV & Book Reviews

On the last day at university, Dev and Em meet each other at a leaving ball. From different worlds, they work their way through a bottle of champagne and wind ...

When, at the very end of the book, Alex Michaelides’ narrator Elliot Chase addresses the reader with the line, ‘I’m certainly no good at writing stories’, I suspect he ...

Similar plots can down some great works before they get a chance to wow audiences says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Being a movie fan, my YouTube algorithm often suggests movie trailers which ...

I’ve been waiting for this for a while! Full Contact has finally hit the screens, marking Netflix’s first docuseries dedicated to the Six Nations. Split into eight episodes ...

By Rony Junior El Daccache Embrace the cringe: something unique to say Celine Dion is definitely the stand out protagonist in Ziwe’s debut book of personal essays Black Friend: ...

People never tire of superhero movies says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looking forward to a new battle It was quite a week for the superhero movie world. Madame Webb premiered to even ...

Did you know a woman was once at the top of the drug empire? Griselda Blanco ruthlessly worked her way up, intimidating even the most feared drug lords. In the 70...

Never letting your reader know quite what’s going in is a fairly standard formula for the generation of unease. Sarah Bernstein’s second novel is high on unease. It’...

Don’t know what to do on the day of love? CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES suggests films to watch Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and here at the Cyprus ...

With a great, Asian-led cast, The Brothers Sun has a great mafia plot line but is also comical. I enjoyed being able to laugh, while also remaining entertained by the ...

Jason Jones and Beatrice Trefalt offer an insight into new film on complexity of Japan’s war memories The new hit Japanese film Godzilla Minus One – an homage to Honda ...

In keeping with my apparently unavoidable tendency to do things the wrong way round, my first Jack Reacher novel also happens to be the latest of the 28 that Lee Child (...

We all love a real-life horror story. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at those yet to make it to the screen We love true crime. People think that this fascination with the ...

I looked up Cyprus’ murder rate for this! According to the United Nations, our island ranks 175th in the world for homicides; not bad, given that 206 countries are listed. Certainly, ...

There are events in everyone’s lives that leave them feeling irrevocably altered afterwards. In passing through these times, we inevitably leave something behind at the same time as we ...

Sam Edwards suggests films and TV shows about US air force’s ‘friendly invasion’ New Apple TV series Masters of the Air tells the story of the famed 100th Bomb ...

It’s the nightmare every parent fears but dares not imagine: the revelation that your baby was switched at birth with someone else’s. This is where the harrowing journey ...

I’m a bit annoyed that I didn’t really like The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass. First, it’s called The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass and that’s ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at six Emmy snubs that really beggar belief The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards wrapped up this week, the third major award ceremony after Golden Globes and the ...

Sports docuseries owe it all to Drive To Survive and The Last Dance. Without them, even the most spectacular, and impactful ones wouldn’t have stood a chance in the ...

I would struggle to resist a satirical campus novel at the best of times, but when a satirical campus novel comes along in which the central edifice is obviously meant ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at the unsung heroes whose life stories are calling out for a biopic Hollywood has always looked to history for inspiration. Oppenheimer, the story of how the ...

Harlan Coben has written an exhaustive number of novels and Netflix seems hell bent on bringing many of them to the small screen with varying degrees of success (they have ...

I don’t know whether choosing to read the sequel of a book that I found offensively awful is behaviour that would be categorised as morbid curiosity or sadomasochism, but ...