Film, TV & Book Reviews

TV favourite turns badass By Nikola Grozdanovic Fans will immediately recognize Bob Odenkirk from TV’s Breaking Bad, where he played the sleazy, shyster lawyer Saul Goodman so well he ...

Caliphate is one of Netflix’s vainest attempts to expand its boundaries by transporting the viewer to a context they might not be overly familiar with, perhaps not as much ...

By Constantinos Psillides Being cast in a movie is every aspiring actor’s dream. Most of them don’t even make it there bouncing from failed audition to failed audition. ...

Nostalgia has always been a theme in pop culture, but after over a year of feeling stuck, it seems extra prevalent today. TV has long thrived on period shows and ...

By Constantinos Psillildes Sports fans rejoice! With the Euro tournament just around the corner, you can get your jab of top-level football you missed, since the event was cancelled last ...

In a small town called Riverdale, teenagers have more important things to engage in than homework and exams. Instead, here a group of American high-school students chase after criminals and ...

The TV event of the year – the Friends reunion will air on Thursday. But will we all be gripped asks Constantinos Psillides They watched it when it aired on TV. ...

By Jonathan Shkurko Before I start, I need to make a very important point. I am not a pizza fundamentalist. The world is big and varied and so is pizza. ...

Its name says it all. Netflix’s Polish series Sexify brings sex up a lot, either by doing it, talking about it or by being frustrated by it. Yet there ...

Joey would have opened a sandwich shop, Monica would be trying to outdo other moms at bake sales, and Rachel would have started her own clothing line. That’s what ...

By Constantinos Psillides Young adult is a genre that was kicked into gear by the Harry Potter book series. A series for people who are too old for fairytales but ...

I want to BE Jessica Fletcher. I want to be a Fairisle-clad mystery writer/amateur detective living in Cabot Cove! Always providing I’m not one of the town’s 60 ...

By Constantinos Psillides Animation has come a long way since the days of Snow White or Steamboat Willie, both in terms of technology and content. While production of fairy tale, ...

It all starts with a missing persons report filed at the Dutch embassy in Bangkok. What follows is an international game of cat-and-mouse straight out of the pages of a 70...

By Constantinos Psillides The day after the end of the world has always fascinated filmmakers. Will we come together as a society and rebuild? Will we turn on each other? ...

By Gina Agapiou Dating can sometimes seem to be obsolete in the modern world. It takes up way too much time and there’s no guarantee; you have to stomach ...

By Constantinos Psillides Following a disastrous ceremony in 2020, due to Covid-19 that was largely virtual and plagued by technological glitches because people were required to Zoom in, this year’s ...

I have no idea how many times I’ve watched reruns of the entire series of Friends but it’s too many to count on one hand. Watching this award ...

Where other festivals have been put on hold, Cyprus Film Days is pushing ahead next week, and not just online either. PRESTON WILDER looks at what we can expect to ...

By Constantinos Psyllides Slapping the word “experimental” in front of anything always makes me think of China, in that it is a huge red flag. Sure, sometimes it works, and ...

Despite crying while watching every episode, I very much enjoyed New Amsterdam. Perhaps it was the utopian scenario which solely focused on a small group of state doctors devoted to ...

By Constantinos Psillides Author David Mitchell, in his 2004 best seller The Cloud Atlas, describes a future where humans have nearly destroyed the planet and corporations have taken over. In this ...

Action-packed, fast-paced, and full of twists and turns. Sounding like Hollywood superheroes, the protagonists of Netflix’s docu-series Drive To Survive can indeed be considered heroes, or villains depending on ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou In his book The Forest & The Trees, musician and teacher Martin Bradfield provided an interesting analysis on the plight of more experimental and innovative drummers. “I ...