Angst ridden or a time worth singing about? CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at movies to screen set in high school
Ah, high school. A magical time where people just break into ...
In addition to anything else, 2022 will be the year I appreciated how empowering it can be to watch five queer guys make over people from across the colourful gender and ...
Ranting has something of a bad name. People who rant might be a little unhinged. Or taking themselves – and their topic – too seriously. But a good rant is magnificent. You ...
It’s the 1950s, and things have gone exactly to plan for Midge Maisel. After college she quickly bagged herself an ideal husband, two kids and a beautiful apartment in ...
Cyprus Film Days opens its doors on Friday with some large international films and some lesser known gems says Preston Wilder
This is a public service announcement. One of the ...
Like all good crime fiction, Colson Whitehead’s eighth novel is concerned with things that are hidden in more or less plain sight. But where the crime fiction that defined ...
After a stand-up comedian led to Oscar upset, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on offensive shows of the genre to stream
The slap was heard around the world. Will Smith. Excuse me, Academy ...
There’s only one method to gauge the standard of a piece of comic fiction: how much does it irritate the friends, loved ones, or strangers who have to share ...
Finding a docuseries that keeps me hooked all throughout has always been a challenge for me. I’ve watched several of them on Netflix, or a few episodes of each ...
In a world that edges closer to insanity every day, it’s no wonder that political dramas, political documentaries and movies with a more political theme have flooded streaming platforms. ...
Best actor nominee Will Smith smacked presenter Chris Rock in the face with an open hand and shouted a vulgarity at the comedian for making a joke about his wife’...
Heartwarming movie “CODA,” about a deaf family with a hearing daughter, won the prestigious best picture prize at the Oscars on Sunday, the first time a streaming service took home ...
By Ari Mattes
There were some extraordinary films released in 2021: Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, an electric neon romp through the porn world, Ildikó Enyedi’s period epic, The Story of ...
The Baudelaire Fractal is a novel that feels at the same time extremely modern and extremely traditional. And this makes sense, given narrator Hazel Brown spends a good deal of ...
Hollywood superstar Ryan Reynold’s newest film The Adam Project dropped on Netflix this week, promising a sci-fi trip using a well-known plot device: time travel. As we desperately wait ...
I don’t usually warm up to TV comedy shows, often finding them pointless, repetitive and generally lacking the necessary gravitas crucial to maintain my focus for more than one ...
Pure Colour is generally regarded to be strange. And it is. After all, a book that creates its own cosmology, where our world is just the first draft of creation ...
By Constantinos Psillides
Film critics and cinema audiences don’t always see eye to eye and in the age of the mega-blockbuster, making a dent in the box office is ...
Is love blind? And can a bunch of singles hoping to find a life partner really answer that question?
Love is Blind is a Netflix reality show designed to come ...
Man Vs Nature. A literary genre as old as time. Artists were always captivated by the struggle of man and how can one survive in the wilderness, pitted against the ...
Orange is the new Black (OITNB) was not just a great show- it was a turning point for mainstream television series.
The narrative is based on the experiences of American ...
Writers love setting novels on academic campuses, which is fair enough since shoving together lots of neurotic people desperately searching for one kind of approval or another makes for an ...