Film, TV & Book Reviews

After a stand-up comedian led to Oscar upset, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on offensive shows of the genre to stream The slap was heard around the world. Will Smith. Excuse me, Academy ...

There’s only one method to gauge the standard of a piece of comic fiction: how much does it irritate the friends, loved ones, or strangers who have to share ...

Finding a docuseries that keeps me hooked all throughout has always been a challenge for me. I’ve watched several of them on Netflix, or a few episodes of each ...

In a world that edges closer to insanity every day, it’s no wonder that political dramas, political documentaries and movies with a more political theme have flooded streaming platforms. ...

Best actor nominee Will Smith smacked presenter Chris Rock in the face with an open hand and shouted a vulgarity at the comedian for making a joke about his wife’...

Heartwarming movie “CODA,” about a deaf family with a hearing daughter, won the prestigious best picture prize at the Oscars on Sunday, the first time a streaming service took home ...

By Ari Mattes There were some extraordinary films released in 2021: Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, an electric neon romp through the porn world, Ildikó Enyedi’s period epic, The Story of ...

Say what you will, Picard is the best of the captains by far. I mean, where’s the series called Kirk? My point exactly! I was worried when I heard ...

The Baudelaire Fractal is a novel that feels at the same time extremely modern and extremely traditional. And this makes sense, given narrator Hazel Brown spends a good deal of ...

Hollywood superstar Ryan Reynold’s newest film The Adam Project dropped on Netflix this week, promising a sci-fi trip using a well-known plot device: time travel. As we desperately wait ...

I don’t usually warm up to TV comedy shows, often finding them pointless, repetitive and generally lacking the necessary gravitas crucial to maintain my focus for more than one ...

Pure Colour is generally regarded to be strange. And it is. After all, a book that creates its own cosmology, where our world is just the first draft of creation ...

By Constantinos Psillides Film critics and cinema audiences don’t always see eye to eye and in the age of the mega-blockbuster, making a dent in the box office is ...

Is love blind? And can a bunch of singles hoping to find a life partner really answer that question? Love is Blind is a Netflix reality show designed to come ...

Man Vs Nature. A literary genre as old as time. Artists were always captivated by the struggle of man and how can one survive in the wilderness, pitted against the ...

Orange is the new Black (OITNB) was not just a great show- it was a turning point for mainstream television series. The narrative is based on the experiences of American ...

Writers love setting novels on academic campuses, which is fair enough since shoving together lots of neurotic people desperately searching for one kind of approval or another makes for an ...

While the genre is enjoying a reboot, newer forays are adding some excellent humour says CONSTANTINOS PSILLDIES Sappy, saccharine, formulaic and predictable, the romantic comedy genre has always been good ...

Not another western, you might sigh. But this one’s different, I promise! With the genre dominating this year’s Oscars, it was only natural for Yellowstone prequel 1883 to take ...

Picking a pseudonym must be a struggle. However, one must question Nita Pronovost’s choice of Prose as her pen-surname. Because if you’re going to name yourself after your ...

Diversity causes a misplaced uproar among fans says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Last week, during the Superbowl halftime, Amazon studios dropped the first trailer for its long-awaited series Rings of Power, which ...

Imagine the airplane your loved ones are in suddenly and mysteriously disappears mid-air. Or perhaps you don’t want to imagine. Now picture that five years later, as you are ...

It’s hard to find something to new to say about a book – or rather, a short story – that is already well known. Recitatif was first published in 1983, and has ...

The nominations made one things clear says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES, the future is digital Oscar nominations were announced this week and as expected, the streaming platforms dominated. The future is digital ...