Film, TV & Book Reviews

The United States’ Declaration of Independence contains one of the most famous sentences in the English language: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, ...

Drama “Nomadland” and satire “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” won movie honors at the Golden Globes on Sunday in a mostly virtual bicoastal ceremony that was marked by impassioned calls for more ...

When Hulu set out to remake High Fidelity, it forgot the risk involved in taking on a story already cemented in collective consciousness. Sadly cancelled after just one season, the ...

Disney+ will bring “Lost”, “Family Guy” and other titles from across studios to viewers in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore under its new Star channel, the Walt Disney ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou Having the ability and opportunity to direct a feature length film are a gift to any filmmaker. Add to that not only being able to cast legendary ...

His egg-shaped head, magnificent moustaches, rapid, dainty gait and annoying mannerisms are instantly recognisable. British actor David Suchet perfectly recreates Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Long running TV ...

The success of George Kay and François Uzan’s mystery thriller series Lupin can be put down to its somewhat meta origin. Maurice Leblanc, French novelist born in the 19...

You’re in your late twenties. You thought your life would have reached a certain point by now but relationships are complicated, creativity isn’t linear and money is tight. ...

In Netflix’s limited documentary series Pretend It’s a City, Martin Scorsese has no interest in adding any distorting elements in the way he presents his protagonist author, public ...

Watching a Turkish TV series was definitely not top of my list but I had run out of things to watch so when a friend recommended Ethos, I decided to ...

While critical and commercial acclaim are important to artists, particularly fledgeling creators who are often starved off any validation that their art has an audience, receiving the sign of approval ...

Monsterland, Hulu’s new horror anthology, delves deep into the human psyche with the stark reminder that true horror lies with the monster within. Adapted from the short story collection ...

When best-selling romance author Julia Quinn was asked by journalist Maureen Lee Lenker about the progress of her book series Bridgerton being adapted for Netflix, she kept a tentatively positive ...

Oh Paris – how elegant and charming you are! We don’t need a TV show to tell us that but Netflix’s new hit series certainly makes it easy to ...

When filmmaker and producer Frank Marshall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and producers Nigel Sinclair (The Ides of March) and Jeanne Elfant Festa (The Apollo) were tasked with crafting ...

Borgen is a political drama set in Denmark about the meteoric rise to power of the leader (Birgitte Nyborg) of a relatively small and unknown party (of which we have ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou When it was first announced that actor Nicolas Cage would host an off-the-cuff Netflix series about the history of cursing less than four weeks ago, audiences were ...

Ah the 80s – Generation Z don’t know what they missed! What an era of excess: a decade of money and fame and power, of glaring colours and daring music, ...

Netflix’s end of year special Death to 2020, made by Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, was supposed to be a surprise, announced mere days before its December 27 ...