Film, TV & Book Reviews

If you’ve ever traded pretentious philosobabble across a sticky table in a dingy university bar, you are likely to be familiar with the way in which people willingly trapped ...

Trying to decide on a new series to invest time in? CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES suggests four released this month that are definitely worth your attention The Wheel of Time, season 2 (Prime) ...

A mother, a friend, a professional, a scheming mastermind – women keep trying to have it all. And Erin Carter is no exception. The only question is: who is this British ...

Late on in SA Cosby’s Southern gothic thriller, sheriff Titus Crown reflects that, ‘violence begets more violence and all violence is a confession of pain’. There’s plenty of ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on shows to watch to bring the high seas to life Ahoy mateys! Arrrrrrrrgh! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Get ready to walk the plank! Sorry. Too ...

Imagine a TV show that features a well-known and readily available medicial drug as the main antagonist. Not a fictional story, but a faithful account of events that actually happened. ...

In Guided Tour, perhaps the most viscerally striking of Millhauser’s latest collection of short stories, the tour guide from AuthentiTour warns his 17 tourists to ‘beware of stories. Stories have ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES picks what he considers the four most rewatchable scenes from recent shows As you probably already know, both writers and actors are currently on strike asking for fair ...

Remember the Truman Show? Okay, now take that, combine it with a hidden camera prank show, and place it all within the mockumentary genre. What you get is Jury Duty, ...

The experience and byproducts of disillusionment have long been fruitful subjects for literature, and in Alexander Lowell’s new book, he presents a figure caught in two states that are ...

Only Murders in the Building is a loving parody of the whodunit By Christopher Pittard Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, has returned ...

One of Netflix’s latest comedy-dramas, Glamorous, is very 2023. Its protagonist is gender non-conforming queer person Marco, a type of beauty influencer who gets a job as an assistant to ...

Following up a debut as striking as 2021’s Open Water was always going to be a tough ask. Caleb Azumah Nelson’s second novel Small Worlds returns to the themes ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on the subject matter that really should be brough to our screens If there’s one thing we can give Netflix credit for it’s turbocharging the documentary ...

Never Have I Ever depicts the life a modern-day teen born into an Indian immigrant family in the United States. These shows tend to resonate with me, not because I ...

‘What else was an ongoing criminal enterprise complicated by periodic violence for, but to make your wife happy?’ This rhetorical question bookends Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto, the follow up ...

Sometimes you’ll wish you hadn’t watched something. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at what you might want to avoid, or watch from behind your hand We like it switch it ...

If there was ever a show that appealed to the diaspora, this is it. But the diaspora in this case isn’t the one we usually refer to – rather than ...

Crime fiction gets a bad rap because it’s a genre where you can get away with a lot of literary sins provided your plotting is fast and twisty, and ...

They get you in the zone. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES picks which he thinks are the best Everybody loves a catchy theme song. It sets the tone, maybe gives some info to ...

It was a rainy afternoon when my girlfriend and I were stranded at home feeling like there was nothing else to do but watch this new queer reality show. The ...

When a short book takes you longer than it should to read, there are a few viable explanations. First, the writing was so dense that you needed to take time ...

But here’s how it can succeed once people stop signing up says NICOLETTA CORROCHER Netflix’s recent move to crackdown on password sharing has boosted subscriber numbers by nearly 6 ...

The narrative about how terrible millennials are has been part of popular culture for the past decade or so, and I’ve always felt like HBO’s Girls, which ran ...