Film, TV & Book Reviews

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 ...

While the genre is enjoying a reboot, newer forays are adding some excellent humour says CONSTANTINOS PSILLDIES Sappy, saccharine, formulaic and predictable, the romantic comedy genre has always been good ...

Not another western, you might sigh. But this one’s different, I promise! With the genre dominating this year’s Oscars, it was only natural for Yellowstone prequel 1883 to take ...

Picking a pseudonym must be a struggle. However, one must question Nita Pronovost’s choice of Prose as her pen-surname. Because if you’re going to name yourself after your ...

Diversity causes a misplaced uproar among fans says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Last week, during the Superbowl halftime, Amazon studios dropped the first trailer for its long-awaited series Rings of Power, which ...

Imagine the airplane your loved ones are in suddenly and mysteriously disappears mid-air. Or perhaps you don’t want to imagine. Now picture that five years later, as you are ...

It’s hard to find something to new to say about a book – or rather, a short story – that is already well known. Recitatif was first published in 1983, and has ...

The nominations made one things clear says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES, the future is digital Oscar nominations were announced this week and as expected, the streaming platforms dominated. The future is digital ...

By Richard Carr, Channel 5’s decision to axe Australian soap opera Neighbours has led to widespread dismay among British people in their thirties and upwards. After 36 years on British screens, ...

David Attenborough has given us Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Our Planet, and Frozen Planet to name a few. And as of January 2022, the world’s best-loved broadcaster is back, taking ...

I like books that don’t use speech marks. It makes sense that there should be no formal distinction between dialogue and narrative, they are both part of the same ...

Find some humour in the place you spend most of your waking hours suggests CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES With the number of sitcoms exploding in the 90s and 00s, it was only ...

If you are looking for pre-Covid shows that are as dramatic as a global pandemic, Spanish prison series Locked Up might be for you. Originally running from 2015 to 2019 (aka the ...

If you like your horror to have a hint of mystery to it too CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES has some suggestions as to what to watch next While horror films/series are ...

A year and a half after watching it, British crime series Broadchurch remains my favourite within the genre. Compelling, surprising and masterfully interpreted by some incredible actors, it remains at ...

What is constant about art is that is always evolving. Serialised radio shows were all the rage back in radio’s early days but much like tamagotchis and the concept ...

Streaming platforms main winners in muted annual ceremony Yet another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Golden Globes winners were unceremoniously announced this week via Twitter. There was no reception, ...

In 1996, a high school football team is flying to a different state to play in the national tournament when their plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. In 2021, the survivors – a ...