Film, TV & Book Reviews

Why is a show that first aired in 2002 resurfacing? Because it is now on Netflix and available to audiences beyond the United States and all generations. Monk is a light-hearted ...

By Philippa Tracy This family saga spans several decades in the lives of the Barnes family in a small town in Ireland in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. Over ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! A time where projects are delayed for an unspecified time in the near future (January 3rd, it’s January 3rd), gatherings ...

By Morgan West If you’re looking for a dose of holiday magic with a modern twist, Dash & Lily is the perfect watch this Christmas. Based on the young ...

Last year, I read The English Experience by Julie Schumacher, in the course of which I discovered the existence of The Thurber Prize for American Humor – which she had won ...

Gone are the days when actors shot a movie and then moved on to their next project. With the rise of marketing and social media, promoting a film is part ...

A good beginning for people who want to get into anime is Noragami, even though its release date of 2014 makes it quite old in anime terms. And the plot is ...

By Simon Demetriou As Alexandra Petri clearly states in her introduction, this is a book for that order of person who examines US History textbooks and exclaims, “Oh no! We ...

Out of sheer curiosity I asked our AI Overlords (blessed be thy Motherboard) through their official spokes-tool ChatGPT to write a film treatment about an MCU movie based in Cyprus. ...

Before you get all excited, this is for beginners. The show follows Tiff, a psychology student in New York, who is moonlighting as a dominatrix and enlists her broke gay ...

By Philippa Tracy Sally Rooney writes about complicated and unconventional relationships, about pain, loneliness and love. In this her fourth novel, she also explores grief. At the heart of the ...

How often do you get the chance to scratch something off the bucket list? For me, it happened this past week, when I got the opportunity to briefly work on ...

At the heart of the all-American National Football League (NFL), where the spotlight shines brightly on the feats of quarterbacks and running backs, Netflix pulls sports fans, especially those passionate ...

By Simon Demetriou We are told early on in Bullwinkel’s terrific debut novel that it ‘was not as if women’s boxing was, or ever had, or ever would ...

Left on the cutting room floor is a term used in the TV and film industry, referring to a scene or scenes that were cut out of the theatrical release. ...

Imagine a crime that keeps on happening across the centuries. Exactly the same. Identical. The same murder, the same location, the same conditions. Everything about it is as peculiar and ...

As so often, I am late to the party on this one; The Empusium is my first Tokarczuk read. The party I anticipated was a big one: a novel by ...

By Alexa Scarlata The Australian commissioning team at Netflix has had a pretty good run over the past 12 months. In January, the adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows ...

Do you watch a docudrama and spend half your time Googling to see how much of it was true? Perhaps with this in mind, a couple of weeks after Monsters: ...

By Philippa Tracy The Echo Chamber is a hilarious social satire on the state of contemporary Britain and the dangers of social media. Each character is a parody that exists ...

Last week, chairwoman of Warner Bros. Television Group – the world’s biggest television studio – described bringing Harry Potter to the small screen as a dream. She was at an industry ...

By Morgan West If you’re drawn to the glamour of the 1970s or captivated by true crime, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist might just be your new binge! ...

There are times in life when what you really need is an expensive psychic to tell you ‘This is bigger than you and your silly heteronormative daydreams, Jane. This is ...

Trap Like most M. Night Shyamalan movies, Trap has a set-up that is too ridiculous to be believed: Josh Harnett plays a psychotic serial killer who is also a father ...