Film, TV & Book Reviews

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 ...

If it wasn’t for the charismatic Haris Alexiou playing the grandmother in Greek drama series Maestro in Blue, I may not have watched the first season to the end, ...

By Nathan Abrams When director James Cameron’s The Terminator hit cinemas in 1984, it forever altered the landscape of science fiction. Released 40 years ago, the plot unfolds against the backdrop ...

It seems a little uncharitable towards a book in which the professedly at-least-semi-autobiographical narrator uses writing, and is using this writing specifically, as a kind of coping mechanism for PTSD, ...

Why are we so drawn by true crime shows? What is it that keeps us glued to the screen while we watch horrible acts of true depravity? Is it because ...

Set in 1348, The Decameron follows a group of young people who flee to the idyllic Villa Santa in the countryside to escape a plague ravaging Florence. This might sound familiar ...

By Philippa Tracy These days fewer unmarried people choose to tie the knot. Perhaps this is why divorce rates have been falling over the last 20 years. In 1937, when Laurence Olivier ...

“Leave the gun, take the canolli,” says the mobster to his partner, moments after carrying out an execution. This bone-chilling scene from The Godfather will forever be etched in our ...

I am not really a fan of Benedit Cumberbatch’s acting. He always seem to play the same character, stuck on the right (or wrong?) side of the UK’s ...

By Xavier Aldana Reyes In the 1980s, film scholar Barbara Creed coined the term “monstrous-feminine”. It refers to the way that female monsters are typically portrayed as threatening and disgusting ...

Everybody knows that Arthur is the once and future king of Britain. The premise of Lev Grossman’s latest sprawling fantasy is to explore what happens in the early part ...

On May 26, 1897, Irish author Bram Stoker unknowingly gave birth to a whole genre of literature and art, when he published Dracula. While the nocturnal, blood-feeding monster that served as his ...

Most 17-year-olds are to self-absorbed to try and solve a murder, let alone when it has happened to a person in the same school. Not so Pip Fitz-Amobi (Wednesday’s ...

The very short version of this review reads as follows: If you haven’t read High Fidelity, read that. If you like High Fidelity, read Good Material (after watching the ...

By Richard Howells I have to be honest – I didn’t actually watch the first episode of the classic TV series Friends when it originally aired in the US on ...

I have three children and tbh at times it can be slightly overwhelming. So I am intrigued by those who appear on my social media feeds with eight or more ...

By Philippa Tracy JD Vance has been making headlines again. This time following the recent deadly shootings by a 14-year-old boy at Apalachee High School in Georgia. He has been ...

Stephen King is perhaps the most influential author of the century in popular culture, and his works have often been adapted into movies, series, games and even serve as a ...

I was engrossed in this story of two ghosts working to solve a series of mysteries. The boys of Dead Boy Detectives are helped by a psychic medium, who can ...

Dave Eggers has been a big name since the publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which I saw around but never bothered to read since the title was ...

Nobody has time to waste. There are so many things to do. So, when it comes to sitting down and watching a film or series, nobody likes to feel they’...