Film, TV & Book Reviews

Where other festivals have been put on hold, Cyprus Film Days is pushing ahead next week, and not just online either. PRESTON WILDER looks at what we can expect to ...

By Constantinos Psyllides Slapping the word “experimental” in front of anything always makes me think of China, in that it is a huge red flag. Sure, sometimes it works, and ...

Despite crying while watching every episode, I very much enjoyed New Amsterdam. Perhaps it was the utopian scenario which solely focused on a small group of state doctors devoted to ...

By Constantinos Psillides Author David Mitchell, in his 2004 best seller The Cloud Atlas, describes a future where humans have nearly destroyed the planet and corporations have taken over. In this ...

Action-packed, fast-paced, and full of twists and turns. Sounding like Hollywood superheroes, the protagonists of Netflix’s docu-series Drive To Survive can indeed be considered heroes, or villains depending on ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou In his book The Forest & The Trees, musician and teacher Martin Bradfield provided an interesting analysis on the plight of more experimental and innovative drummers. “I ...

Every Friday night, the small town of Dillon leaves its personal problems behind to gather at the football field and support its high school football team. Under the bright lights, ...

Watching Carey Mulligan calmly unload a mouthful of spit into a freshly made cup of hot coffee perfectly captures her character in Promising Young Woman. She takes something seemingly benign ...

Cheerleaders get a bad rep. According to Hollywood they’re all sex-crazed, pom-toting airheads on a killing spree – usually in the deep south. Cheer gives us the truth. And it ...

The film starts with a fun, juvenile activity. Carrying a case of beer bottles around a lake and having to drink them. Fun reduced to chore. The heavy case burdening ...

Taylor Swift has beef with this show featuring Georgia, a young mother moving with her teenage daughter and nine-year-old son to a New England town for a new beginning after ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou With the 93rd Academy Awards fast approaching and this year’s Golden Globes providing an indication as to which projects have a chance at an Oscar, one ...

Despite it being so well received by the watching public and critics alike, I believe murder mystery Broadchurch deserves more recognition for the way it tackles many crucial topics of ...

The United States’ Declaration of Independence contains one of the most famous sentences in the English language: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, ...

Drama “Nomadland” and satire “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” won movie honors at the Golden Globes on Sunday in a mostly virtual bicoastal ceremony that was marked by impassioned calls for more ...

When Hulu set out to remake High Fidelity, it forgot the risk involved in taking on a story already cemented in collective consciousness. Sadly cancelled after just one season, the ...

Disney+ will bring “Lost”, “Family Guy” and other titles from across studios to viewers in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore under its new Star channel, the Walt Disney ...

By Kyriacos Nicolaou Having the ability and opportunity to direct a feature length film are a gift to any filmmaker. Add to that not only being able to cast legendary ...

His egg-shaped head, magnificent moustaches, rapid, dainty gait and annoying mannerisms are instantly recognisable. British actor David Suchet perfectly recreates Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Long running TV ...

The success of George Kay and François Uzan’s mystery thriller series Lupin can be put down to its somewhat meta origin. Maurice Leblanc, French novelist born in the 19...

You’re in your late twenties. You thought your life would have reached a certain point by now but relationships are complicated, creativity isn’t linear and money is tight. ...

In Netflix’s limited documentary series Pretend It’s a City, Martin Scorsese has no interest in adding any distorting elements in the way he presents his protagonist author, public ...

Watching a Turkish TV series was definitely not top of my list but I had run out of things to watch so when a friend recommended Ethos, I decided to ...

While critical and commercial acclaim are important to artists, particularly fledgeling creators who are often starved off any validation that their art has an audience, receiving the sign of approval ...