Film, TV & Book Reviews

Single’s Inferno perfectly blends the two different worlds of questionable-but-entertaining Western find-love reality TV with the charming cheesiness of K-Dramas. First aired in 2021, this South Korean reality show returns ...

By Philippa Tracy Isabel was 11 when she moved into the house outside of the Hague during the second world war. Her mother died there ten years later. Isabel is still ...

Teen runaways, cryptic reformation schools hidden behind tall pine trees and a close-knit community that seems a little too perfect. It all makes a great foundation for an eerie psychological ...

People don’t read Charles Lamb enough anymore, which is a terrible shame because he is utterly brilliant in so many ways. Perhaps above all, though, we should read him ...

Rebooting a beloved series is always a risky endeavour. On one hand, studios see an opportunity to revive a recognisable property and spark a new wave of nostalgia-driven success. On ...

Take an immature, lazy and irresponsible narcissist and give him superpowers. Instead of getting himself to his job on time – or at all for that matter – Javier is looking to ...

Leave it to me to encounter a writer that virtually every child and the majority of parents and teachers have already been reading for decades when he decides to publish ...

For anybody who enjoys watching eccentric personalities in action in a show filled with morally grey characters House, M.D. is for you. First released over 20 years ago, in November 2004, ...

By Philippa Tracy Australian writer Richard Flanagan’s book won the Booker Prize in 2014 and was this summer screened as five-part series on the BBC. The title refers to a ...

Years ago, when deciding on a macroeconomic growth strategy, Netflix execs took a bold step: instead of forcing US made content on the rest of the world, they chose to ...

Netflix has launched one of its biggest K-dramas of the year just in time for the Chuseok holiday. Genie, Make a Wish stars Suzy and Kim Woo-bin in a fantasy ...

Phoebe Greenwood is by no means the first novelist to write a war satire, nor the first to specifically lampoon the way in which journalists and those who publish and ...

Well, we knew this was coming. Back in 2023, when actors/writers went on strike in Hollywood, one of the main issues of the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television ...

Tak Dong-kyung is a novel editor who seems to have mastered the art of enduring hardship. On the anniversary of her parents’ death, our protagonist receives a devastating diagnosis: she ...

I am not on social media, so Tart is my first exposure to Slutty Cheff, the pseudonymous Instagram minor-celebrity whose posts about being a woman on the London restaurant scene ...

Boys and girls of every age, wouldn’t you like to see something strange? It is the spookiest time of the year once more, and we couldn’t be more ...

Wet Hot American Summer is an outrageously funny satirical comedy, with a cast that includes Elizabeth Banks, Bradley Cooper, Ken Marino and Paul Rudd, as well as hilarious guest appearances. ...

Ghost Flight by Eva Asprakis explores a “time of new beginnings” amid the “horrifying contrast” of abrupt loss brought about by the doomed Helios Airways flight in 2005 that saw 121 people ...

By Philippa Tracy It has been more than 10 years since Chimananda Ngozi Adichie’s last novel, Americanah, was published. In the intervening years, she has lost both of her parents, ...

State censorship and government oppression are terrifying and have no place in a democratic society. These are practices that belong in books and films as a cautionary tale. Here are ...

When I first started watching Atypical on Netflix, it seemed like Sam was the star of the show, and in many ways the storyline does revolve around him – a teenager ...

By Simon Demetriou There are so many situations where jargon can be off-putting. Thankfully, thriller novels about military intelligence are not one of these. Indeed, you want your novelist to ...

Shooting a television series is a stressful job. In the TV and film world, there are countless moving parts that must come together to make everything work. If one person ...

It’s a normal day for real estate agent Sheila Hammond until she vomits out gallons of goo and a smallish red ball while showing a house to potential buyers ...