Film, TV & Book Reviews

If a historical murder mystery set in Sicily and featuring badass women across multiple generations doing it for themselves in spite of convention and circumstance sounds good to you, then ...

But a more mature edge as Regency fears of spinsterhood explored says Danielle Mariann Dove Netflix’s Regency-inspired romance series Bridgerton has returned in all its garish glory (at least ...

If you’ve never heard of the story about rescuing Europe’s artists from the Nazis, this is it. The limited series on Netflix, Transatlantic, is inspired by the true ...

If you’ve ever sat down with the Hallmark Channel on in the background (whether because this is the case, or because you’d rather not confess to ever having ...

Constantinos Psillides chooses the best of those ready for film/TV adaptions “Why is it that those who have never fought in a battle, are so eager to be in ...

How Baby Reindeer and Feel Good are forging a new television genre By Marina Deller and Kate Douglas Comedy is opening up spaces for silences to be broken and trauma ...

Pain and trauma can take many different forms. They mutate, evolve, change and directly influence our perception of reality and what might happen in the next moments of our lives. ...

Towards the end of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, Filomena, the great-souled and semi-tragic cemetery-keeper, says that ‘All stories are good stories if you find the right listener’. That an ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES takes a closer look at an Easter classic Jesus of Nazareth, the 1977 British-Italian epic TV series directed by Franco Jefirelli about the life and death of Jesus Christ, ...

Disclaimer: What follows are the opinions of someone who has NOT watched the ‘original’ Heartbreak High. While I might not fully grasp the nostalgia that some devoted fans of the 1990...

If you’re a corporation that wants to convince your customers that you’re a company on the up, and that the absence of workers on the shop floor is ...

Or does it? asks Nathan Abrams Curb Your Enthusiasm, the show that revelled in awkward social encounters and misanthropy, came to an end on April 7. Over its 12 seasons and 120 episodes, ...

When Netflix announced it was creating a live-action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender involving those who made the animated series, I could barely contain my joy. I have loved ...

‘…if you don’t have… the right skin colour and you don’t have the right geographic background, you’re fucked.’ Reading this, most would assume that ‘right’ would equate ...

What happens at CinemaCon stays at CinemaCon says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES The American National Association Theatre Owners wrapped up a three-day event on Friday, where major production studios gave presentations about ...

3 Body Problem is an absolute must for fans of hardcore sci-fi, but something of an intellectual challenge for everyone else. Those who once praised David Benioff and DB Weiss for ...

I’m tempted to start this review with a reference to Charles Lamb’s exhortation to retain our childishness always, so that we never lose the capacity to respond to ...

Cancelled: CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES on how Netflix’s series renewal policy backfired Dead Boy Detectives, the newest supernatural show brought to you by Netflix dropped its latest trailer on Wednesday and ...

Believe it or not, I started watching this show on cable TV, whenever it was on. Figuring out which day of the week it was on and at what time ...

When I reviewed Aug Stone’s novel The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass, I found myself returning to, not to say butting against, the coolness of the book that didn’...

From dystopian YA sagas to crime-solving beyond the grave and futuristic eye-candy, it’s a jam-packed month. CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at some of the films, documentaries and series coming in ...

By Alexandra Shkuratova In the spin off show Berlin, the Netflix series that follows the iconic character from Money Heist, viewers are taken on a journey into Berlin’s past ...

“If you don’t know about object-oriented ontology, I’m not sure you can have a conversation about contemporary art,” says one gallerist early on in Bianca Bosker’s account ...

Let the screen take you back to a time when you didn’t have a care in the world says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Nostalgia sells. It makes the viewer forget all ...