Film, TV & Book Reviews

A week or so before the World Cup in Qatar, Netflix released a four-part docu-series FIFA Uncovered focusing on the corruption that has riddled football’s number one organisation. FIFA’...

Since I began reviewing for The Cyprus Mail, a clear and joyous pattern has emerged: get your hands on the debut novel of a great poet, and you’re in ...

Artistry and storytelling take a back seat to generating as much content for Disney+ as possible says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe concluded last week with the ...

Fantasy cartoons are a genre I have loved since my teens, with many of them approaching adult themes, and having magical elements. The Dragon Prince is one of those shows, ...

Culturescope showrunner and presenter PAUL LAMBIS speaks to Yiannis Photinos, a Greek Cypriot actor who, beyond his impressive stage performances and television appearances in both Cyprus and the US, had ...

The title of the James Hannaham’s latest novel is ironic, because one would need to be both inhuman and immune to stylistic brilliance to be able to spend any ...

Has the new season of The Crown fallen foul of the TV series reality that season 4 is as good as it gets asks CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES There’s an old adage ...

I’m watching this by mistake. It’s the cat’s fault. You know how you click on a Netflix show and it starts running an episode all by itself? ...

One’s response to Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize shortlisted novel Small Things Like These perhaps hinges on how a reader responds to the protagonist, Bill Furlong, wondering ‘was there ...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian Imelda Staunton picks up the royal baton as the latest actor to play Queen Elizabeth in hit Netflix drama The Crown, whose new season has faced criticism ...

Even though I don’t approve of cigarettes being representative of a badass attitude, Rita smoking inside the school toilets surrounded by graffitti on the walls, couldn’t paint a ...

I may not be forgiven for this, but I didn’t really enjoy Treacle Walker. The weight of evidence is against me: earlier this year, the novel had just made ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at what to expect from Del Torro’s Cabinet of Curiosities An eight-part anthology of mystery, fantasy, horror and the occult, Cabinet of Curiosities debuted on Netflix ...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is best known for Fleabag, her award- winning one-woman show turned BBC series, which quickly garnered a cult following for its frank depiction of the life of a ...

At the end of Less is Lost, the narrator, aspiring novelist Freddy Pelu, arrives at the realisation that ‘… to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about ...

If horror is your thing, one of the masters of the craft is back with something new says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES If there’s one thing to say about director/writer ...

Although you know how it will end before watching the dramatisation of a young Thai football team’s well-documented 18 days stuck in an underground cave in a remote area of ...

According to Ovid’s version of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, Pygmalion is a Cypriot sculptor who, horrified at the sexual licentiousness of his female compatriots, becomes celibate and ...

After the success of Rings of Power, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at what the future could hold for Tolkien fans Rings of Power, Amazon Studios’ ambitious series both in scope and ...

There’s no business like showbusiness, right? TV series Hollywood knows all about that as it follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in a post-World War II Hollywood ...

Open Water is a book heavily punctuated by question marks. Over and over again, the unnamed narrator asks ‘… what is a joint? What is a fracture? What is a break?’; ‘...

In new A League Of Their Own series, tensions between femininity and sexuality explored in women’s sports says MERSINI KARKOULAS Amazon Prime Video’s recent release A League Of ...

I had been looking forward to this show for a long time, so when it was released last week it only took me two days to be over with it. ...

Everybody knows that the abolition of slavery didn’t stop humans being treated as commodities. In Babel, RF Kuang uses a fantastical version of mid-nineteenth-century Britain to explore the ways ...