Film, TV & Book Reviews

We had a good run. Homo sapiens have been around for roughly 300,000 years, evolving from rock-throwing cave dwellers to rocket-launching studio apartment renters. Could we have done better? Absolutely. Regardless, ...

Washington is thrown into catastrophe. In the opening episode of Netflix’s Designated Survivor an explosion during the State of the Union address kills the President, the Vice President, and ...

By Simon Demetriou Ideally, I would sit down to write a review the day after I finished reading a book, having had time to ruminate and plan, and for impressions ...

Moving from the console to the big screen more often than not spells disaster both commercially and critically. It turns out that adapting an art form that unfolds over tens ...

Kim’s Convenience follows a family of Korean immigrants running a convenience store in the Moss Park neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. The show juggles a continuous parade of colourful characters ...

In the age of global entertainment, finding quality international TV shows can be both thrilling and frustrating—especially when subtitles are scarce. Enter iOffer-Movies, a unique online platform that offers ...

Secrets in stories, whether on page or screen, are tricky things. Everyone knows that in real life, people keep secrets irrationally, not to say stupidly, and that’s just how ...

With July rolling along, summer is in full swing, much like my air conditioning settings, and we suddenly find ourselves with more time on our hands. Lazy August is just ...

In The Waterfront, the latest drama created by Kevin Williamson (Dawson’s Creek, The Vampire Diaries, and Scream) we see a grounded portrayal of a family-run business on the verge ...

By Philippa Tracy Hidden Valley Road is the story of an American family striving for the American dream. There are 12 children: two girls and 10 boys, six diagnosed with schizophrenia, one ...

I was never a big fan of culture wars. I have always considered it to be a distraction from the real issues, such as systemic oppression, and an attempt to ...

DCI Carl Morck is beyond grumpy. The kind of grumpy you really wish you could get away with, but politeness means you can’t. He is the lead of a ...

It takes some guts to write a novel in which your narrator and central character is a comedian, for the simple reason that to pull the character off, you need ...

“Superhero films are dead!” That’s the tired cry we’ve heard from critics for years now, so often, in fact, that it’s become meaningless. Despite the headlines, superhero ...

The Diplomat opens with a bang — literally. Minutes into the two-season series, a British aircraft carrier is bombed off the coast of Iran, killing dozens of sailors and triggering an ...

‘You weren’t supposed to suddenly get a new family at eleven o’clock on a Saturday after you’d sold out of eggs.’ So much of Kevin Wilson’s ...

In an era dominated by sequels, trilogies, franchises, reboots and prequels, getting an original idea greenlit is next to impossible. Today, product recognition is everything. If audiences can’t instantly ...

Zero Day is an American political thriller, in which Robert De Niro stars as former US president George Mullen, who is called out of retirement and given free rein in ...

Featuring a musical performance by Lady Gaga, a surprise drop by Adam Sandler and a soaring stock, Netflix wrapped up this year’s TUDUM show – the streaming behemoth’s annual ...

By Philippa Tracy On a recent trip to Dublin I picked up a copy of Amongst Women by John McGahern, considered his finest novel and described by some as a ‘...

An asylum seeker caught in between lands, jobs and mountains of paperwork. Sounds familiar? It’s a story we’ve heard all too often in the past few years, and ...

Of the many ways in which I unintentionally broadcast my lack of coolness to the world, the one we’ll talk about this week is my blind and rabid excitement ...

Netflix’s latest true-crime docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders peels back the sealed lid on one of America’s most terrifying unsolved cases. This three-part series, out on Monday, ...

There are a lot of people who, typically as a result of their own ignorance, tend to dismiss philosophy as navel-gazing solipsism. The immediately flippant counter to these people is ...