Film, TV & Book Reviews

Very Cold People is an odd book for me to review, because while it has plenty of literary merit, it is a book that I just didn’t enjoy reading. ...

TV shows and films based on video games have a bad history. In keeping with much of the world, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES is impressed with the latest show, which has reassured ...

A much-needed break from gritty crime series led me to give Anatomy Of A Scandal a chance. I jumped on the bandwagon relatively late, as the show was released in ...

A coming-of-age novel that repeatedly references The Catcher in the Rye is setting itself a hard task. However, while Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion cannot live up to ...

Will the Netflix hit usher in a new age for Greek TV asks CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES On December 20, 2017, the world was taken by storm by a red jumpsuit-wearing crew of people ...

Most of my Greek-speaking friends and relatives have been watching Maestro in Blue and raving about it. The recent release on Netflix is the platform’s first ever Greek-language TV ...

I know I’m doing this all wrong, but I confess that Stella Maris is the first Cormac McCarthy novel I’ve read. (If that immediately disqualifies me from expressing ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at what the streaming giant has in store From a ghostbusting service to electronic beat earworm, streaming giant Netflix has a lot in store for 2023, including ending ...

Not having read the graphic novels, but being a fan of series adapted to Neil Gaiman’s work, I enjoyed watching Netflix’s The Sandman as it tackles the life ...

The purpose of Donald Trump’s existence is a teleological quandary that has perplexed many in recent years. The best answer we yet possess is that he was thrust into ...

At the end of a long day books, music and video can provide a bit of light relief. Cyprus Mail writers outline what kept them going through 2022 THEO PANAYIDES READING: ...

In a bumper year for TV shows CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES picks his favourites What a year. Covid is still with us, Russia invaded Ukraine, the Queen died, and the world population ...

If you’ve ever visited Paris, nothing about this series will resonate. On screen, the streets are squeaky clean, the natives friendly, and berets ubiquitous. In fact, Emily in Paris ...

Look, if you choose to read Percival Everett’s latest novel, as I recommend you do, there will be times when you feel a little stupid. Or very stupid. Unless ...

If there were awards for streaming, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES comes up with some categories, and their winners Welcome to the first-ever Cyprus Mail Streaming Awards, the Mailies (trademark pending). You have ...

This is the journey of two widely different teenage girls in search of their own identity who somehow find themselves involved with a dangerous part of Rome’s nightlife. The ...

The allure of the overlooked discovery is one that seduces all enthusiasts, and the recent publication of Toad, which had lain dormant since its rejection by publishers in 1971, would seem ...

With cozy evenings in planned, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES suggests new movies for the whole family to watch Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical Scheduled for release on Christmas Day, this is ...

War is hell, but Stephen Knight’s latest offering is anything but. The Peaky Blinders creator is back on the BBC, this time tracing the origins of the Special Air ...

When Steve Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the six-season series about a Birmingham gang in the interwar period and their rise to power, fans were left with a hole in their ...

Jeanne Dielman is a masterpiece of slow cinema that richly details life’s quiet intricacies says ALISON SMITH Every ten years the British Film Institute’s (BFI) in-house magazine, Sight ...

There are times in our lives that we never seem to shake off, that don’t so much haunt us as continue to form part of our core selves well ...

It is not just a day of the week, Wednesday is a quirky, dark and stormy character of the Addams Family clan and she has recently returned to the TV ...

When the youthful narrator of Claire Keegan’s newly re-released novella describes the moment that Dave Kinsella, her temporary foster father, ‘puts his arms around me and gathers me into ...